Domínguez-Garay, A. and Boltes, K. and Esteve-Núñez, A. (2016) Cleaning-up atrazine-polluted soil by using Microbial Electroremediating Cells. Chemosphere, 161. pp. 365-371. ISSN 00456535
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Biodegradation of pollutants in soil is greatly limited by the availability of terminal electron acceptors required for supporting microbial respiration. Such limitation can be overcome if soil-buried electrodes accept the electrons released in the microbial metabolism. We propose the term bioelectroventing for such a environmental treatment. The process would be performed in a device so-called Microbial Electroremediating Cell. Indeed, our studies demonstrate that the presence of electrodes as electron acceptors effectively stimulated by 5-fold the biodegradation rate of the herbicide atrazine (2-chloro-4-ethylamino-6-isopropyl amino-1,3,5-triazine) in comparison with soil natural attenuation. Furthermore, a different set of toxicological test using Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata green alga e, Salmonella typhimorium bacteria and Sorghum saccharatum plant seeds respectively, confirm that atrazine-polluted soil can be effectively cleaned-up in short time by the use of MERCs.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QS Ecology Q Science > QD Chemistry Q Science > QR Microbiology |
| Depositing User: | Belén Barroeta |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Dec 2016 11:09 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Dec 2016 11:09 |
| URI: | http://eprints.imdea-agua.org:13000/id/eprint/715 |
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