Defining quality assurance guidance for effective selection of technical grade zero-valent iron production batch for groundwater remediation using permeable reactive barrier.

Zero-valent iron (ZVI) applied to the remediation of contaminated groundwater (GW) in situ, especially using engineered permeable reactive barriers (PRBs), has been proven to be an effective reactive material. However, many of ZVI brands do not represent tailored reagents specifically regarding destroying pollutants in GW. Thus, their reactivity towards certain contaminants in GW may vary significantly in a wide range even with different production batches of the same ZVI brand.

Spatial heterogeneity of dechlorinating bacteria and limiting factors for in situ trichloroethene dechlorination revealed by analyses of sediment cores from a polluted field site.

Microbiological analyses of sediment samples were conducted to explore potentials and limitations for bioremediation of field sites polluted with chlorinated ethenes. Intact sediment cores, collected by direct push probing from a 35-ha contaminated area, were analyzed in horizontal layers. Cultivation-independent PCR revealed Dehalococcoides to be the most abundant 16S rRNA gene phylotype with a suspected potential for reductive dechlorination of the major contaminant trichloroethene (TCE).

Two stage biological treatment of a diazo reactive textile dye and the fate of the dye metabolites.

A two stage anaerobic/aerobic bacterial process was used to decolorize and partially mineralize a reactive vinyl sulfone diazo dye C.I. Reactive Black 5 (RB5) in a synthetic wastewater.