The remediation of contaminated soils is one of the major environmental problems in industrial countries today. Among the different techniques that can be applied, in situ bioremediation, which relies upon the use of indigeneous microorganisms to degrade the contaminant, is one of the most attractive, both from an environmental and an economic viewpoint. A full-scale bioremediation process requ...

Nature has its ways of resolving imbalances in its environment and microorganisms are one of the best tools of nature to eliminate toxic pollutants. The process of eliminat‐ ing pollutants using microbes is termed Bioremediation. Metagenomics is a strategic approach for analysing microbial communities at a genomic level. It is one of the best technological upgradation to bioremediation. Identif...

The aim of this work is to present a critical review on slurry bioreactors (SB) and their application to bioremediation of soils and sediments polluted with recalcitrant and toxic compounds. The scope of the review encompasses the following subjects: (i) process fundamentals of SB and analysis of advantages and disadvantages; (ii) the most recent applications of SB to laboratory scale and comme...

bioremediation, the process by which microorganisms degrade organic compounds to non-toxic or less toxic substances, has been widely used for cleanup of coastal ecosystems after oil spills. in this study, the hydrocarbon degradation rate and half lives in three bioremediation strategies (natural attenuation, biostimulation, and bioaugmentation) were compared in weathered crude oil (wco) contami...

Bioremediation: ASM library http://www.microbelibrary.org/library/resources/ 2776-bioremediation-and-treatment-of-industrial-waste This site put up by the American Society for Microbiology provides a good summary of the principles and practices of bioremediation. Bioremediation: USGS http://water.usgs.gov/wid/html/bioremed.html This site is dated but it contains specific examples of sites treat...

In-situ bioremediation is one of the most economic techniques for groundwater remediation. BIOPLUME III is used to simulate the transport and biodegradation of contaminant. During optimal design of bioremediation system, the simulated BIOPLUME III data for the entire aquifer is usually called several times by optimization algorithm to optimize the system. This is a very time consuming process a...