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US07682815B2 Bioelectrolytical methanogenic/methanotrophic coupling for bioremediation of ground water
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生物电解甲烷生成/甲烷营养耦合用于生物修复地下水
- Patent Title: Bioelectrolytical methanogenic/methanotrophic coupling for bioremediation of ground water
- Patent Title (中): 生物电解甲烷生成/甲烷营养耦合用于生物修复地下水
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Application No.: US11597662Application Date: 2005-05-25
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Publication No.: US07682815B2Publication Date: 2010-03-23
- Inventor: Serge R. Guiot , Boris Tartakovsky
- Applicant: Serge R. Guiot , Boris Tartakovsky
- Applicant Address: CA Ottawa, Ontario
- Assignee: National Research Council of Canada
- Current Assignee: National Research Council of Canada
- Current Assignee Address: CA Ottawa, Ontario
- Agent Hans Koenig
- International Application: PCT/CA2005/000793 WO 20050525
- International Announcement: WO2005/115930 WO 20051208
- Main IPC: B09B3/00
- IPC: B09B3/00

Abstract:
The invention disclosure is a method of bioremediation of wastewater, particularly groundwater, by utilizing coupled anaerobic and aerobic biological treatment, more specifically, methanogenic (strictly anaerobic) and methanotrophic (strictly aerobic) microbial populations, in combination with a supply of in-situ generated water-dissolved oxygen and hydrogen. Water electrolysis is used to produce water-dissolved oxygen and hydrogen. The immediate advantage of using H2 from the electrolysis is to provide electron donors to methanogens to reductively dechlorinate the chloroaliphatics, and to reduce the water carbonates and generate methane which is used as energy and carbon source for the methanotrophic bacteria. Oxygen is used as electron acceptor by the aerobic bacteria, including the methanotrophs. The addition of an organic carbon source can be minimized or even eliminated, so as to diminish the competition between methanotrophic bacteria and heterotrophic bacteria for oxygen.
Public/Granted literature
- US20070218540A1 Bioelectrolytic Methanogenic/Methanotrophic Coupling for Bioremediation of Ground Water Public/Granted day:2007-09-20
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