Trichloroethylene degradation by subsurface microbial communities
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
This paper analyzes some of the monitoring data, the effects of methane dosing on methanotrophic populations, and the trichloroethylene (TCE) degradation potentials of the microbial communities from an in situ bioremediation demonstration at the U.S. Department of Energy/Office of Technology Development, Westinghouse Savannah River Site (WSRS). A series of treatments were delivered into a lower horizontal well coupled with vacuum extraction from a vadose zone horizontal well to stimulate TCE-degrading microorganisms. A control phase without treatment was followed by air injection, injection of 1% methane in air, 4% methane in air, pulsed methane and air injection, and continuous addition of triethyl phosphate and nitrous oxide in air with pulsed additions of methane and air. Microbial monitoring was utilized to demonstrate the effectiveness of bioremediation and to optimize the treatment regimes and continued for a few months after termination of all treatments. Examination of the methane present in specific wells indicated that methanotrophic populations responded to methane delivery, whereas TCE degradation capacity was not as directly tied to the methane availability. Other factors such as nitrate and phosphate availability apparently played a crucial role in the TCE degradation activity.
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-84OR21400
- OSTI ID:
- 210267
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9509139-; TRN: 95:008324-0108
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 7. ACS special symposium: emerging technologies in hazardous waste management, Atlanta, GA (United States), 17-20 Sep 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Emerging technologies in hazardous waste management VII; Tedder, D.W. [ed.]; PB: 1352 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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