| Title: | Persistence of fermentative process to phenolic toxicity in groundwater |
| Author(s): | Wu Y; Lerner DN; Banwart SA; Thornton SF; Pickup RW; |
| Address: | "Groundwater Protection and Restoration Group, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, University of Sheffield, Mappin St., Sheffield S1 3JD, UK. ywu@mail.sdsu.edu" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 0047-2425 (Print) 0047-2425 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "The fermentation process is an important component in the biodegradation of organic compounds in natural and contaminated systems. Comparing with terminal electron-accepting processes (TEAPs), however, research on fermentation processes has to some extent been ignored in the past decades, particularly on the persistence of fermentation process in the presence of toxic organic pollutants. Both field and laboratory studies, presented here, showed that microbial processes in a groundwater-based system exhibited a differential inhibitory response to toxicity of phenolic compounds from coal tar distillation, thus resulting in the accumulation of volatile fatty acids (VFAs) and hydrogen. This indicated that fermentation processes could be more resistant to phenol toxicity than the subsequent TEAPs such as methanogenesis and sulfate reduction, thus providing us with more options for enhancing bioremediation processes" |
| Keywords: | "Biodegradation, Environmental *Coal Fatty Acids/metabolism *Fermentation Hydrogen/metabolism Methane/metabolism Phenols/*metabolism/toxicity Sulfates/chemistry Volatilization Water Pollutants, Chemical/*metabolism/toxicity *Water Supply;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineWu, Youxian Lerner, David N Banwart, Steven A Thornton, Steven F Pickup, Roger W eng Comparative Study Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't 2006/10/31 J Environ Qual. 2006 Oct 27; 35(6):2021-5. doi: 10.2134/jeq2006.0080. Print 2006 Nov-Dec" |
