Natural Gradient Drift Tests for Assessing the Feasibility of In Situ Aerobic Cometabolism of Trichloroethylene and Evaluating the Microbial Community Change
- Authors
- Ha, Chulyoon; Kim, Namhee; Park, Hoowon; Kwon, Soo Youl; Lee, Heung-Shick; Hong, Ui Jeon; Park, Sunhwa; Kim, Sungpyo; Kim, Young
- Issue Date
- 7월-2011
- Publisher
- SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG
- Keywords
- TCE; Aerobic cometabolism; Single-well natural gradient drift test; Ethylene; Ethylene oxide; 2-Hexyne
- Citation
- WATER AIR AND SOIL POLLUTION, v.219, no.1-4, pp.353 - 364
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- WATER AIR AND SOIL POLLUTION
- Volume
- 219
- Number
- 1-4
- Start Page
- 353
- End Page
- 364
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/112114
- DOI
- 10.1007/s11270-010-0712-6
- ISSN
- 0049-6979
- Abstract
- The objective of this study is to develop a method for using the single-well natural gradient drift test (SWNGDT) in the field to assess in situ aerobic cometabolism of trichloroethylene (TCE) and to analyze microbial community changes. The SWNGDT was performed in a monitoring well installed in a TCE-contaminated aquifer in Wonju, South Korea. The natural gradient drift biostimulation test (NGDBT) and surrogate test (NGDST) were performed by injecting dissolved solutes (bromide (a tracer), toluene (a growth substrate), ethylene (a nontoxic surrogate substrate to probe for TCE transformation activity), dissolved oxygen (DO, an electron acceptor), and nitrate (nutrient)) into the aquifer. Push-pull blocking tests (PPBT) were also performed to examine whether the monooxygenase of toluene oxidizers is involved in the degradation of toluene and the transformation of ethylene. Through the NGDBT, NGDST, and PPBT, we confirmed that the addition of toluene and oxygen in these field tests stimulated indigenous toluene utilizers to cometabolize aerobically TCE, with the following results: (1) the observed simultaneous utilization of toluene and DO; (2) the transformation of ethylene to ethylene oxide and propylene to propylene oxide; and (3) the transformation of TCE. Furthermore, the results of restriction fragment length polymorphism suggested that the microbial community shifts and the microbes capable of transforming TCE are stimulated by injecting the growth substrate, toluene.
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