Overview of In—Situ Biodegradation and Enhancement

Microbial degradation technologies have been developed to restore ground water quality in aquifers polluted by or-ganic contaminants effectively in recent years. However, in course of the degradation, the formation of biofilms in ground wa-ter remediation technology can be detrimental to the effectiveness of a ground water remediation project. Several alternatives are available to a remedial design engineer, such as Permeable Reactive Barriers (PRBs) and in -situ bioremediation, Hy-drogen Releasing Compounds (HRCs) barrier, Oxygen Releasing Compounds (ORCs) barrier etc. which are efficient and cost ?effective technologies. Excessive biomass formation renders a barrier ineffective in degrading the contaminants, Efforts are made to develop kinetics models which accurately determine bio - fouling and bio - film formation and to control excessive biomass formation.     

Zur Bildung von Artefakten und deren Vermeidung bei der Bestimmung leichtflüchtiger Halogenkohlenwasserstoffe in Wasser mittels Headspace-Gaschromatographie unter den Bedingungen der DIN 38407 Teil 5 (DEV-F5). Teil I: Bildung von Dehydrohalogenierungsprodukten aus gesättigten LHKW

Formation of Artefacts and its Suppression during the Determination of Volatile Halogenated Hydrocarbons in Water by Means of Headspace Gas Chromatography under the Standard Conditions of DIN 38407-F5. Part I: Formation of Dehydrohalogenation Products from Saturated Halogenated Hydrocarbons Under the conditions recommended by DIN 38407-F5 for the headspace gas-chromatographic determination of volatile halogenated organic substances in water (equilibration at 60…80°C for a least 60 min) several halocarbons are degraded by dehydrohalogenation resulting in the formation of unsaturated artefacts with one halogen atom less. Thus pentachloroethane and 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane are decomposed to form tetrachloroethylene and trichloroethylene, respectively. This leads to low results of the analytes and to false-positive detection of the reaction products. The unwanted degradation reactions can be reduced by decreasing the temperature and duration of equilibration, and they are completely suppressed by acidification of the samples.