Author: Hans F. Stroo Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 0387849211 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 281
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In the late 1970s and early 1980s, our nation began to grapple with the legacy of past disposal practices for toxic chemicals. With the passage in 1980 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), commonly known as Superfund, it became the law of the land to remediate these sites. The U. S. Department of Defense (DoD), the nation’s largest industrial organization, also recognized that it too had a legacy of contaminated sites. Historic operations at Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps facilities, ranges, manufacturing sites, shipyards, and depots had resulted in widespread contamination of soil, groundwater, and sediment. While Superfund began in 1980 to focus on remediation of heavily contaminated sites largely abandoned or neglected by the private sector, the DoD had already initiated its Installation Restoration Program in the mid 1970s. In 1984, the DoD began the Defense Environmental Restoration Program (DERP) for contaminated site assessment and remediation. Two years later, the U. S. Congress codified the DERP and directed the Secretary of Defense to carry out a concurrent program of research, development, and demonstration of innovative remediation technologies. As chronicled in the 1994 National Research Council report, “Ranking Hazardous-Waste Sites for Remedial Action”, our early estimates on the cost and suitability of existing technologies for cleaning up contaminated sites were wildly optimistic. Original estimates, in 1980, projected an average Superfund cleanup cost of a mere $3.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 25
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Nitrate and perchlorate are growing worldwide problems as mobile anionic groundwater contaminants. Biological rduction of nitrate and perchlorate in groundwater is under development as a technology to address these problems.
Author: Randall J. Cramer Publisher: ISBN: 9781423514664 Category : Languages : en Pages : 80
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The Applied Technology Department at the Indian Head Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center and Shaw Environmental, Inc., have just successfully completed a field demonstration of in situ bioremediation of a groundwater aquifer contaminated with perchlorate. Using a recirculation cell design, naturally occurring microorganisms were stimulated to degrade perchlorate by injecting a food source (lactate) and neutralizing the groundwater acidity with a carbonate buffer. Starting with perchlorate concentrations in excess of 210 mg/L, perchlorate levels were reduced by more than 95% in eight of the nine test plot monitoring wells over the 5 months of sampling. In two of the monitoring wells, the perchlorate levels were lowered to less than 5 ppb. In addition to the perchlorate levels and the pH, alkalinity, nitrate, and sulfate concentrations were measured. In situ bioremediation techniques are much less expensive and significantly lower in maintenance than traditional ex situ pump- and-treat systems. This is the first field trial conducted on the east coast of the United States, the first trial performed in an acidic aquifer, and the first demonstration of treating in situ perchlorate levels in excess of 200 mg/L. This project provides new and valuable information concerning the application of bioremediation for in situ perchlorate treatment.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 80
Book Description
The Applied Technology Department at the Indian Head Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center and Shaw Environmental, Inc., have just successfully completed a field demonstration of in situ bioremediation of a groundwater aquifer contaminated with perchlorate. Using a recirculation cell design, naturally occurring microorganisms were stimulated to degrade perchlorate by injecting a food source (lactate) and neutralizing the groundwater acidity with a carbonate buffer. Starting with perchlorate concentrations in excess of 210 mg/L, perchlorate levels were reduced by more than 95% in eight of the nine test plot monitoring wells over the 5 months of sampling. In two of the monitoring wells, the perchlorate levels were lowered to less than 5 ppb. In addition to the perchlorate levels and the pH, alkalinity, nitrate, and sulfate concentrations were measured. In situ bioremediation techniques are much less expensive and significantly lower in maintenance than traditional ex situ pump-and-treat systems. This is the first field trial conducted on the east coast of the United States, the first trial performed in an acidic aquifer, and the first demonstration of treating in situ perchlorate levels in excess of 200 mg/L. This project provides new and valuable information concerning the application of bioremediation for in situ perchlorate treatment.
Author: Edward Todd Urbansky Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1461543037 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 299
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Based on a symposium sponsored by the Environmental Division of the American Chemical Society, Perchlorate in the Environment is the first comprehensive book to address perchlorate as a potable water contaminant. The two main topics are: analytical chemistry (focusing on ion chromatography and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry), and treatment or remediation. Also included are topics such as ion exchange, phytoremediation, bacterial reduction of perchlorate, bioreactors, and in situ bioremediation. To provide complete coverage, background chapters on fundamental chemistry, toxicology, and reulatory issues are also included. The authors are environmental consultants, government researchers, industry experts, and university professors from a wide array of disciplines.
Author: Robert D. Norris Publisher: DIANE Publishing ISBN: 9780788122507 Category : Languages : en Pages : 264
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Provides a detailed background of the technologies available for the bioremediation of contaminated soil & ground water. Prepared for scientists, consultants, regulatory personnel, & others who are associated in some way with the restoration of soil & ground water at hazardous waste sites. Also provides insights to emerging technologies which are at the research level of formation, ranging from theoretical concepts, through bench scale inquiries, to limited field-scale investigations. 95 tables & figures.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 159
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Applications submitted to regulatory authorities containing in situ bioremediation have not been prepared nor evaluated using a consistent and accepted suite of parameters. The ITRC In Situ Bioremediation (ISB) Team prepared this document to provide guidance for the systematic characterization, evaluation, and appropriate design and testing of ISB for any biotreatable contaminant. It serves as guidance for regulators, consultants, responsible parties, and stakeholders when an ISB technology is considered. Bioremediation is the application of biological treatment to the cleanup of contaminants in groundwater. Bioremediation melds an understanding of microbiology, chemistry, hydrogeology, and engineering into a cohesive strategy for planned and controlled microbial degradation of specific classes of organic compounds and in certain instances, inorganic compounds. This assemblage of science and engineering requires a rigorous degree of data evaluation to determine the effect and efficiency of bioremediation. In situ bioremediation creates subsurface environmental conditions, typically through oxidation-reduction manipulation, which induce the degradation of chemicals (i.e., the target chemical) via microbial catalyzed biochemical reactions. In turn, the microbes produce enzymes that are utilized to derive energy and that are instrumental in the degradation of target chemicals. To accomplish this chain of events, the following aspects must be considered: type of microorganisms, type of contaminant, and geological conditions at the site. Since in situ conditions are manipulated by engineered means, the most important consideration is the ability to transmit and mix liquids in the subsurface.
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