Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
chapter four
The federal integrated
biotreatment research
consortium (flask to field)
Jeffrey W. Talley
Contents
4.1 Introduction .................................................................................................. 51
4.1.1 Chlorinated solvents ....................................................................... 52
4.1.2 PAHs.................................................................................................. 53
4.1.3 PCBs................................................................................................... 53
4.2 Technical approach ...................................................................................... 54
4.3 Thrust area project results .......................................................................... 55
4.3.1 Chlorinated solvents ....................................................................... 55
4.3.2 PAHs.................................................................................................. 55
4.3.3 PCBs................................................................................................... 56
References............................................................................................................... 56
4.1 Introduction
The Department of Defense (DOD) has thousands of sites that have been
contaminated with organic compounds that pose a serious threat to the
environment. The remediation of these sites using existing technologies was
problematic from an economic, technical, and political point of view. The
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and DOD funded development and
application of innovative remediation technologies to solve these problems.
Of all of the innovative technologies, bioremediation was considered the
most promising.
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