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Saskia Rughöft, Anjela L. Vogel, Samantha B. Joye, Tony Gutierrez and Sara Kleindienst
During marine oil spills, chemical dispersants are used routinely to disperse surface slicks, transferring the hydrocarbon constituents of oil into the aqueous phase. Nonetheless, a comprehensive understanding of how dispersants affect natural population...
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Lebohang E. Koloti, Rosina Nkuna and Tonderayi S. Matambo
This study provides a theoretical baseline on the application of chemical and microbiological indicators as rapid system performance monitoring tools that will allow for timely corrective measures to maintain and improve the bioremediation performance of...
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Anggun Rahman Rahman,Khaswar Syamsu Syamsu,Isroi Isroi Isroi
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Biodegradation of the bioplastic composite based on cellulose from oil palm empty fruit bunches was investigated in this study. Microbes consortium from landfill soil collected from top soil were used as the inoculums for the biodegradation process. Biod...
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Roger Painter, Tom Byl, Lonnie Sharpe, Ahmad Kheder and Justin Harris
Natural attenuation of groundwater contamination occurs at some level for all aquifers impacted with organic contaminants. The issues regarding natural attenuation are whether it takes place at a sufficient rate to be protective of human health and the e...
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Kleber Rogério Moreira Prado, Jorge Marcos Rosa, José Carlos Curvelo Santana, Elias Tambourgi, Wonder Alexandre Luz Alves, Fabio Henrique Pereira
Pág. 565 - 572
Current essay forwards a biodegradation model of a dye, used in the textile industry, based on a neural network propped by bootstrap remodeling. Bootstrapped neural network is set to generate estimates that are close to results obtained in an intrinsic e...
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Pedro Cisterna-Osorio and Patricia Arancibia-Avila
Fats and oils are the most common pollutants in wastewater, and are usually eliminated through physical processes in wastewater treatment plants, generating large amounts of fats and residual oils that are difficult to dispose of and handle. The degradat...
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Tânia Luz Palma and Maria Clara Costa
17a-ethinylestradiol (EE2), a synthetically derived analogue of endogenous estrogen, is widely employed as a hormonal contraceptive and is recognized as a highly hazardous emerging pollutant, causing acute and chronic toxic effects on both aquatic and te...
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J. Paniagua-Michel and Ibrahim M. Banat
The search for practical solutions to alleviate the destructive impact of petroleum hydrocarbons in marine environments is contributing to the implementation of prospecting strategies for indigenous microorganisms with biodegradative and bioremediation p...
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Kathleen E. Duncan, Lina E. Dominici, Mark A. Nanny, Irene A. Davidova, Brian H. Harriman and Joseph M. Suflita
Some naval vessels add seawater to carbon steel fuel ballast tanks to maintain stability during fuel consumption. Marine sediments often contaminate ballast tank fluids and have been implicated in stimulating fuel biodegradation and enhancing biocorrosio...
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Pedro Cisterna-Osorio, Miguel Moraga-Chaura, Raydel Manrique-Suárez and Mabel Vega-Coloma
This research studies the biodegradation of sunflower-type vegetative oil in two proposed activated sludge systems, the first one to biologically treat an influent containing only vegetative oil and the second one to treat a mixture of vegetable oil plus...
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Shuaiguo Li, Kejian Tian, Qing Qiu, Yue Yu, Han Li, Menghan Chang, Xuejian Sun, Jinming Gu, Fenglin Zhang, Yibing Wang and Hongliang Huo
As a widespread pollutant, bisphenol A (BPA) has created a serious threat to ecosystem and human health. Therefore, expanding the available microbial resources used to screen highly efficient BPA-degrading bacteria with BPA as the sole carbon source is v...
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Martina Bertolini, Sarah Zecchin and Lucia Cavalca
Chlorinated ethene contamination is a worldwide relevant health issue. In anaerobic aquifers, highly chlorinated ethenes are transformed by microbially-mediated organohalide respiration metabolism. For this reason, in the last few years, bioremediation i...
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María José Alvarado-López, Sofía E. Garrido-Hoyos, María Elena Raynal-Gutiérrez, Elie G. El-Kassis, Víctor M. Luque-Almagro and Genoveva Rosano-Ortega
A native cyanide-degrading bacterial consortium was isolated from goldmine tailing sediments. Mine tailings are toxic effluents due to their metal?cyanide complexes. The bacterial consortium was able to degrade an initial sodium cyanide concentration ran...
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Narjes J. Alamer, Munirah F. Aldayel and Ashraf Khalifa
Plastic pollution is one of the most serious environmental issues, causing severe environmental damage. It is of vital importance to find an efficient and eco-friendly approach to biodegrading plastics. The aim of this study was to isolate and characteri...
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Cristina Abbate, Aurelio Scavo, Gaetano Roberto Pesce, Stefania Fontanazza, Alessia Restuccia and Giovanni Mauromicale
The use of plastic mulch films is widespread in agriculture for specialty cropping systems because of several benefits. In this article, we critically review, for the first time under a holistic approach, the use of biodegradable plastic mulches (BdPMs) ...
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Waqas Mohy-Ud-Din, Muhammad Javed Akhtar, Safdar Bashir, Hafiz Naeem Asghar, Muhammad Farrakh Nawaz and Feng Chen
Glyphosate is a non-selective herbicide that is used to control perennial weeds in agriculture. However, its vast application may result in glyphosate residues in the food chain. Due to its toxicity to non-target organisms, glyphosate-contaminated soils ...
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Brenda Madrid, Huan Zhang, Carol A. Miles, Michael Kraft, Deirdre Griffin-LaHue and Lisa Wasko DeVetter
The perceived variability of plastic soil-biodegradable mulch (BDM) degradation has generated concerns about its functionality and sustainability, especially in climates and regions where biodegradation may be limited. This study evaluated the effects of...
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Petya Popova-Krumova, Venko Beschkov, Evgenia Vasileva and Tsvetomila Parvanova-Mancheva
This study proposes a mathematical modeling approach for evaluating the effect of applying a permanent electric field on the biodegradation of 1,2-dibromoethane by bacterial cells of Bradyrhizobium japonicum 273. Two models for inhibited microbial growth...
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Anisha Bhattacharyya, Lei Liu, Kenneth Lee and Jiahe Miao
Oily wastewater is generated from various sources within the petrochemical industry, including extraction, refining and processing, storage, and transportation. Over the years, large volumes of oily wastewater from this industry have made their way into ...
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Gi-Taek Oh, Chi-Kyu Ahn and Min-Woo Lee
A wastewater treatment configuration consisting of advanced oxidation pretreatment and biological wastewater treatment process (BWTP) was investigated to treat a reclaimer wastewater generated in a steel-making industry, which contained high concentratio...
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