Bioremediation

1. Bioremediation Why it’s important?

2. What is bioremediation? Microorganisms are used to change harmful substances to nontoxic substances. This is a new technology for treating chemical spills and hazardous waste.

3. Bioremediation is a fairly new technique within the past ten years it has produced both outstanding and yet some delayed results. Disadvantages of bioremediation include the fact that little is still known concerning specifics on its effects in areas having multiple impurities. As to advantages, bioremediation is a natural process, it destroys the target chemicals, its’ usually less expensive than other technologies, and can be used where the problem is located. It often takes longer than other treatment methods, and that it requires constant monitoring to ensure effectiveness.

4. What is it used for ? This makes it different from remedies where contaminated soil or water is removed for chemical treatment or sanitization ,burning, or burial in a landfill.

5. Oil spills With the Gulf oil spill crisis mounting daily, these tiny microorganisms are sorely needed. There is only one problem, but it’s a big one. The miracle microbes don’t exist – except in that laboratory flask. It sounded like the answer to an oil spill clean-up crew’s prayers – a laboratory microbe that quickly ate up hydrocarbons in oil spills as if they were the microbe-equivalent of cotton candy.

6. Diagram

7. Methods of bioremediations 1.Microorganisms eat oil and other organic contaminant. 2.Microorgainsims digest oil and convert it into carbon dioxide (co2) and water (H2O) 3. Microorganisms give off co2 and h2o.

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