Accelerated biodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbon waste

O Ward, A Singh, J Van Hamme - Journal of Industrial …, 2003‏ - academic.oup.com
Conventional landfarming approaches to bioremediation of refinery and other petroleum
sludges are not acceptable environmentally and are banned in most North American …

Comparison of synthetic surfactants and biosurfactants in enhancing biodegradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

RS Makkar, KJ Rockne - Environmental Toxicology and …, 2003‏ - Wiley Online Library
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) contamination of the environment represents a
serious threat to the health of humans and ecosystems. Given the human health effects of …

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon biodegradation rates: a structure-based study

KH Wammer, CA Peters - Environmental science & technology, 2005‏ - ACS Publications
This study was designed to examine the role of molecular structure in determining the
biodegradation rates of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Laboratory experiments …

Combined effect of nonionic surfactant Tween 80 and DOM on the behaviors of PAHs in soil–water system

KY Cheng, JWC Wong - Chemosphere, 2006‏ - Elsevier
Batch experiments were performed to examine the desorption behavior of phenanthrene
and pyrene in soil–water system in the presence of nonionic surfactant Tween 80 and …

Enhanced transformation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons using a combined Fenton's reagent, microbial treatment and surfactants

N Nadarajah, J Van Hamme, J Pannu, A Singh… - Applied Microbiology …, 2002‏ - Springer
The potential for using Fenton's reagent (H 2 O 2+ Fe 2+) as an advanced oxidation
pretreatment process to enhance microbial transformation of two model polycyclic aromatic …

Surfactant-induced bacterial community changes correlated with increased polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon degradation in contaminated soil

DR Singleton, AC Adrion, MD Aitken - Applied microbiology and …, 2016‏ - Springer
Bioremediation as a method for removing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from
contaminated environments has been criticized for poor removal of potentially carcinogenic …

Fate and toxicity of aircraft deicing fluid additives through anaerobic digestion

CL Gruden, SM Dow… - Water Environment …, 2001‏ - Wiley Online Library
Benzotriazole derivatives are widely used corrosion inhibitors and their fate during
wastewater treatment processes is unknown. The purpose of this research was to study the …

Assessing the Role of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Surface-Active Gene Expression in Hexadecane Biodegradation in Sand

PA Holden, MG LaMontagne, AK Bruce… - Applied and …, 2002‏ - Am Soc Microbiol
Low pollutant substrate bioavailability limits hydrocarbon biodegradation in soils. Bacterially
produced surface-active compounds, such as rhamnolipid biosurfactant and the PA …

Effects of pig manure compost and nonionic-surfactant Tween 80 on phenanthrene and pyrene removal from soil vegetated with Agropyron elongatum

KY Cheng, KM Lai, JWC Wong - Chemosphere, 2008‏ - Elsevier
This paper evaluates the effects of pig manure compost (PMC) and Tween 80 on the
removal of phenanthrene (PHE) and pyrene (PYR) from soil cultivated with Agropyron …

Biodegradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by Sphingomonas strains isolated from the terrestrial subsurface

T Shi, JK Fredrickson, DL Balkwill - Journal of Industrial …, 2001‏ - academic.oup.com
Several strains of Sphingomonas isolated from deep Atlantic coastal plain aquifers at the US
Department of Energy Savannah River Site (SRS) near Aiken, SC were shown to degrade a …