Bioremediation of Recalcitrant Compounds

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by  Jeffrey Talley (Editor)

B
ioremediation
Relcalcitrant
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Compounds

B
ioremediation
R
elcalcitrant
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Compounds
EDITED BY
JEFFREY W. TALLEY
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Preface
This book summarizes many of the results of a 7-year research effort con-
ducted by the Federal Integrated Biotreatment Research Consortium
(FIBRC). The purpose of the work presented in this book was to develop
bioremediation technologies for soil, sediment, and groundwater contami-
nated with chlorinated solvents, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The Strategic Environmental
Research and Development Program (SERDP) sponsored this project under
its cleanup thrust area and assigned it project number CU-720. The U.S.
Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) directed the
FIBRC research program, which was entitled “Biotreatment: Flask to Field
Initiative.”
Active membership of the FIBRC whose work is represented in this book
consisted of the following organizations:
U.S. ERDC, Environmental Laboratory, Waterways Experiment Station,
Vicksburg, MS
U.S. Army Natick Research, Development and Engineering Center,
Natick, MA
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Baltimore District, Baltimore,
MD
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.
U.S. Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center Research,
Development, Test and Evaluation Division (NRaD), San Diego, CA
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), Environmental
Research Laboratory, Athens, GA
USEPA Robert S. Kerr Laboratory, Ada, OK
Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic Hazardous Substance Research Center
(GLMAC), Ann Arbor, MI
In addition, the following organizations participated in the FIBRC in an
advisory capacity:
ERDC, Cold Regions Research Engineering Laboratory (CRREL),
Hanover, NH
ERDC, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL),
Champaign, IL
U.S. Army Environmental Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Argonne National Laboratory,
Argonne, IL
I was the FIBRC director for most of the work, although Dr. Mark Zappi,
P.E. (ERDC/Mississippi State University) and Dr. Kurt Preston (ERDC/Army
Research Office) served as the initial directors. Dr. Rakesh Bajpai (University
of Missouri–Columbia) served as an interim director for 1 year. Thank you,
Mark, Kurt, and Rakesh, for providing great leadership. My executive assis-
tant was Ms. Deborah Felt, Applied Research Associates (ARA), whose daily
contributions were invaluable … thanks, Debbie.
To my lead authors, Dr. Jim Tiedje (Michigan State University), Dr. Hap
Prichard (Naval Research Laboratory), and Dr. Guy Sewell (EPA Robert S.
Kerr Research Laboratory/East Central University), your long hours of work
are greatly appreciated. Equally important is the list of other coauthors and
contributors. My thanks to all of you.
Thank you, SERDP, for funding this work and giving us great folks to
work with, such as Ms. Cathy Vogel (SERDP’s program manager for the
cleanup thrust area), Dr. Femi Ayorinde (program manager), and Mr. Bradley
Smith and Dr. John Harrison (SERDP directors). Special thanks to ERDC and
Daniel E. Averett for their support of this project.
Thank you, Technical Advisory Committee (all great scholars and too
many to mention here) and Mr. Richard Conway (SERDP project shepherd),
for keeping us focused to produce this work.
Thank you, Dr. Xiangru Zhang (University of Notre Dame) and Mr. Tim
Ruggaber (University of Notre Dame) for your valuable assistance in proof-
reading this manuscript!
Finally, thank you to all the staff at CRC Press and Taylor & Francis.
Without your prodding, this book would never have been completed.
Jeffrey W. Talley
Notre Dame, Indiana
The Editor
Dr. Jeffrey W. Talley, P.E., is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and
Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering and
Geological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. He
specializes in the treatment of contaminated surface water, groundwater,
soil, and sediment. His research interests include the examination of phys-
iochemical and microbial processes for application to waste reduction and
treatment. Special interests are phase partitioning and the treatment and fate
of hydrophobic organic compounds (Dioxins, PCBs, PAHs, DDT), other
tightly bound pollutants (TNT, RDX, HMX), and select inorganic contami-
nants (Hg, Pb, Cr, and As) in the environment. He is especially interested in
the integration of engineering, microbial ecology, and toxicology for pur-
poses of enhancing detection, characterization, and remedial strategies. Pro-
fessor Talley teaches Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Sci-
ence, Hazardous Waste Management and Design, and Physiochemical
Processes and Treatment of Pollutants.
Professor Talley is noted for his innovative applications of thermal pro-
grammed desorption mass spectrometry (TPD/MS) for the assessment of
pollutants and his contributions to the development of treatment technolo-
gies with focus on field remediation. His work involving the bioavailability
of PAHs in sediments was part of the team project honored as 1999 SERDP
Research Project of the Year (Cleanup) and best research presented (poster)
at the 2000 Gordon Research Conference on Environmental Science. His
recent collaborative work involving the detection and analyses of toxic heavy
metals and organic acids in herbal dietary supplements was part of a team
project honored as best research presented at the 2004 International Sympo-
sium on Recent Advances in Pharmacology.
Prior to his appointment at Notre Dame, Dr. Talley spent 20 years in
design, consulting, and military positions involving more than 100 different
environmental sites throughout the United States and abroad. In 2003, Pro-
fessor Talley was in the Middle East with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
conducting civil and environmental engineering projects throughout Kuwait
and Iraq. Of special significance was his environmental work with Task Force
Restore Iraqi Oil (TF RIO), where he assisted in the assessment and remedi-
ation recommendations for multiple oil-waste impacted sites in Iraq.

Contributors
Dr. Michael Annable Dr. William Jones
Department of Environmental Maryland Biotechnology Institute
Engineering and Science Baltimore, Maryland
University of Florida–Gainesville
Gainesville, Florida
Dr. Joanne Jones-Meehan
Naval Research Laboratory
Dr. Herbert Fredrickson
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Army Engineer Research and
Development Center
Susan C. Mravik
Environmental Laboratory at
USEPA-RSK Lab
Waterways Experiment Station
Ada, Oklahoma
Vicksburg, Mississippi
John S. Furey Cathy Nestler
U.S. Army Engineer Research and Applied Research Associates, Inc.,
Development Center Southern Division
Environmental Laboratory at Vicksburg, Mississippi
Waterways Experiment Station
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Dr. Kurt D. Pennell
School of Civil and Environmental
Dr. Lance D. Hansen
Engineering
U.S. Army Engineer Research and
Georgia Institute of Technology
Development Center
Atlanta, Georgia
Cold Regions Research and
Engineering Laboratory
Dr. Hap Prichard
Hanover, New Hampshire
Naval Research Laboratory
Washington, D.C.
Dr. John Hind
Maryland Biotechnology Institute
Baltimore, Maryland Dr. Guy Sewell
East Central University
Desirée P. Howell Department of Environmental
RMT, Inc. Health Sciences
Jackson, Mississippi Ada, Oklahoma