Improving a bioremediation technique with microbes would clean contaminated sites and also produce valuable byproducts.
Faculty Mentor: Anca Delgado
Reductive Dechlorination of Trichloroethene Sustained by Microbial Chain Elongation
The objective of this research is to test the effectiveness of a novel approach for bioremediation of trichloroethylene (TCE) in soil and groundwater. This approach consists of reducing TCE to non-chlorinated, non-toxic ethene by utilizing the electron donor hydrogen produced from microbial chain elongating (MCE) cultures. Results thus far showed that TCE-reductively dechlorinating microorganisms can
