The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection awarded Irwin Engineering of Natick, Massachusetts the 2016 Greener Cleanup Leadership Award for the innovative in situ bioremediation of perchorate contamination of soil and ground water at the Concord Road Site in Billerica, Massachusetts. The award honors LSPs and their clients for promoting greener cleanup principles and practices to […]
Petrox microbes were added to excavated petroleum-contaminated soil to accelerate the degradation of DRO and ERO total petroleum hydrocarbons. Petrox was added by spraying the surface of the soil with a hydrated Petrox solution. The microbes were mixed into the soil using a tractor-mounted disc tiller. After approximately […]
Bioaugmentation results can be accelerated and amplified by soil mixing to improve distribution and contact. The equipment shown in this example was used to blend Petrox with contaminated soil to a depth of 10 feet. Click here to view a short video of soil mixing.
For a brief summary of the basics of petroleum bioremediation follow this link Basics of Petroleum Bioremediation
Aerobic cometabolism of TCE may be limited by the potential microbial toxicity of by products or by product metabolic repression. An independent comparison of induced cometabolism using soluble methane and CL-Out bioaugmentation showed that CL-Out bioaugmentation removed more TCE. The TCE removal rate by CL-Out when supplemented with an oxygen source was a steady rate […]
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