This study concerns the use of ethanol as a gasoline (petrol) additive, at levels around 10%
by volume ('E10') as well as an 85% blend ('E85'). By detailed reviews of the peer-reviewed …

An area of intense scientific and practical interest is the biogeochemical and microbial
processes determining the success of natural attenuation, biostimulation and/or …

BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene) compounds are common water
resource and potable water pollutants that are often left undetected and untreated by …

Total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPHs) are one of the common contaminants in the
environment. They include a broad family of several hundred hydrocarbon compounds that …

Methanogenic flowthrough aquifer columns were used to investigate the potential of
bioaugmentation to enhance anaerobic benzene-toluene-ethylbenzene-xylene (BTEX) …

The continuous dredging of sediments contaminated by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
such as phenanthrene (PHE) has required the employment of high–efficiency technologies …

In this 10 year study, Brazilian gasoline (100 L, containing 24% ethanol by volume) was
released to a sandy aquifer to evaluate the natural attenuation of benzene, toluene …

As biofuels and blended biofuels are being globally used and expected to increase in the
near future, their fate and transport in the soil-water system is an area of major concern. The …

The study of environmental interfaces and environmental catalysis is central to finding more
effective solutions to air pollution and in understanding of how pollution impacts the natural …

Conclusive evidence of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) biotransformation and complete
mineralization under aerobic conditions in environmental samples and enrichment cultures …