8 bioremediation.pptVIP

Bioremediation Bioremediation Bioremediation is the application of biological process principles to the treatment of groundwater, soil and sludges contaminated with hazardous chemicals. It requires the control and manipulation of microbial processes in surface reactors or in the subsurface. The contaminants can be biodegraded in situ or removed and placed in bioreactor (at or off the contamination sites). Idea: To isolate microbes that can degrade or eat a particular contaminant To provide the conditions whereby it can do this most effectively, thereby eliminating the contaminant Biodegradati