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Continuous steady-state method using tenax for delivering tetrachloroethene to chloro-respiring bacteria
Rachel A Brennan1, Robert A Sanford
1Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 205 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|March 2, 2002
Abstract:
Tenax-TA, a solid-phase sorbent, was used as an alternative to hexadecane for continuous delivery of tetrachloroethene (PCE) to Desulfuromonas strain BB1, a chloro-respiring microorganism. In both batch and bioreactor configurations, Tenax not only maintained low, steady-state concentrations of PCE in an active culture for several months but also adsorbed the product of dechlorination, cis-1,2-dichloroethene, before it approached toxic levels.

