skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Natural bioreclamation of alkylbenzenes (BTEX) from a gasoline spill in methanogenic groundwater. Book chapter

Abstract

A spill of gasoline from underground storage tanks (USTS) at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Benzie County, Michigan, produced a plume of contamination that reached the banks of the Platte River. The plume was short (70 feet) and it had a short residence time (5 to 53 weeks). The plume was in transmissive glacial sands and gravels. The groundwater is cold (10 to 11 C), hard (alkalinity 200 to 350 milligrams/L), and well buffered (pH 6.1 to 7.6). Along the most contaminated flow path, methanogenesis, nitrate reduction, sulfate reduction, iron reduction, and oxygen respiration accepted enough electrons to destroy 30, 14, 4.2, 1.1, and 0.8 milligrams/L of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX compounds) respectively. The actual concentration of BTEX compounds consumed was 42 milligrams/L.

Authors:
; ;
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Environmental Protection Agency, Ada, OK (United States). Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Lab.
OSTI Identifier:
7041004
Report Number(s):
PB-94-162757/XAB; EPA-600/A-94/066
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Pub. in Hydrocarbon Bioremediation, 201-218(1994)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
02 PETROLEUM; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; ALKYLATED AROMATICS; BIODEGRADATION; GROUND WATER; MONITORING; RISK ASSESSMENT; AROMATICS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; DECOMPOSITION; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; WATER; 020900* - Petroleum- Environmental Aspects; 022000 - Petroleum- Transport, Handling, & Storage; 540250 - Environment, Terrestrial- Site Resource & Use Studies- (1990-)

Citation Formats

Wilson, J T, Kampbell, D H, and Armstrong, J. Natural bioreclamation of alkylbenzenes (BTEX) from a gasoline spill in methanogenic groundwater. Book chapter. United States: N. p., 1994. Web.
Wilson, J T, Kampbell, D H, & Armstrong, J. Natural bioreclamation of alkylbenzenes (BTEX) from a gasoline spill in methanogenic groundwater. Book chapter. United States.
Wilson, J T, Kampbell, D H, and Armstrong, J. 1994. "Natural bioreclamation of alkylbenzenes (BTEX) from a gasoline spill in methanogenic groundwater. Book chapter". United States.
@article{osti_7041004,
title = {Natural bioreclamation of alkylbenzenes (BTEX) from a gasoline spill in methanogenic groundwater. Book chapter},
author = {Wilson, J T and Kampbell, D H and Armstrong, J},
abstractNote = {A spill of gasoline from underground storage tanks (USTS) at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Benzie County, Michigan, produced a plume of contamination that reached the banks of the Platte River. The plume was short (70 feet) and it had a short residence time (5 to 53 weeks). The plume was in transmissive glacial sands and gravels. The groundwater is cold (10 to 11 C), hard (alkalinity 200 to 350 milligrams/L), and well buffered (pH 6.1 to 7.6). Along the most contaminated flow path, methanogenesis, nitrate reduction, sulfate reduction, iron reduction, and oxygen respiration accepted enough electrons to destroy 30, 14, 4.2, 1.1, and 0.8 milligrams/L of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX compounds) respectively. The actual concentration of BTEX compounds consumed was 42 milligrams/L.},
doi = {},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/7041004}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1994},
month = {Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1994}
}

Technical Report:
Other availability
Please see Document Availability for additional information on obtaining the full-text document. Library patrons may search WorldCat to identify libraries that may hold this item. Keep in mind that many technical reports are not cataloged in WorldCat.

Save / Share: