Biological destruction of CCl4: I. Experimental design and data
- 15 March 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Biotechnology & Bioengineering
- Vol. 43 (6) , 521-528
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bit.260430613
Abstract
A denitrifying consortium capable of transforming carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) was cultured from aquifer sediment from the U.S. Department of Energy's Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State. To understand the kinetics of the biological destruction of CCl4 by these microbes, a set of experiments, the conditions of which were chosen according to a fractional factorial experimental design, were completed. This article reports on the experimental design along with the results for CCl4, biomass, acetate, nitrate, and nitrite concentrations. These data indicate that growth is inhibited by high nitrite concentrations, whereas CCl4 degradation is slowed by the presence of nitrate and/or nitrite. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.Keywords
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