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SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, AND FIELD EVALUATION OF NOVEL CELLULOSE NANOCRYSTALS-BASED MATERIALS TO MONITOR HYDROCARBON AND BACTERIA IN GROUNDWATER
Shen, W-Z., V. Collins, P. Mussone, K. Bradshaw, T. Keenan, and M. Tse.
RemTech 2019: Remediation Technologies Symposium, 16-18 October, Banff, 22 slides, 2019

A new class of high-porosity adsorbent composite materials was developed and evaluated in the field to monitor hydrocarbons and microbial communities in groundwater at sites being remediated with in situ biostimulatory aqueous solutions. The chemical stability of these materials and their adsorption capacity for hydrocarbons and bacteria was first tested in a laboratory setting using both model water and then groundwater samples collected from a hydrocarbon-impacted site undergoing active bioremediation. The materials were then evaluated in the field during an active bioremediation experiment with the goal to correlate the sorption capacity of the materials, bacteria growth, and bacteria population. The data from laboratory and field experimentation are discussed in the presentation. https://www.esaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/19-Shen.pdf



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