Pollution and the global health impacts from toxic environmental pollutants are presently of
great concern. At present, more than 100 million people are at risk from exposure to a …

Abstract DDT (1, 1, 1-trichloro-2, 2-bis (4-chlorophenyl) ethane) is probably the best known
and most useful organochlorine insecticide in the world which was used since 1945 for …

A strain of Ochrobactrum sp. DDT-2 that was capable of degrading DDT as the sole carbon
and energy source was isolated and sequenced, and its biodegradation characteristics and …

The recent poisoning of thousands of people through exposure to arsenic, asbestos (Naidu
et al. 1996) and benzene has highlighted the massive challenge that contaminants pose risk …

Ultrasonic irradiation was applied to improve the desorption of petroleum hydrocarbons
(PHC) in crude oil from three types of soil. Soil A was an Ottawa sand, while soil B and soil C …

Ultrasonic remediation is an emerging technology that is applied to recover contaminated
soils. There are two main mechanisms that occur in the ultrasonic process: desorption and …

Sediments play a fundamental role in the aquatic environment, so that the presence of
contaminants poses severe concern for the possible negative effects on both environmental …

A chitosan (a glucosamine polysaccharide)-diatomaceous earth hybrid was studied for the
adsorption of 4, 4′-dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (4, 4′-DDT), a persistent organic …

An effective ex situ soil remediation technology was developed in this study to remove
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and heavy metals in a mixed contaminated site …

The marine bacterium able to consume DDT as the nutrient source was isolated from sea
water which was identified as Paracoccus sp. DDT-21 based on 16 S rDNA gene sequence …