Bioremediation

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NOTE: Lifted from Sir Baggy

Bioremediation

One approach to clean up a contaminated environment is the use of microbes, the technology now known as Bioremediation. Bioremediation is the use of microbes to clean up hazardous contaminants such as oils and gasoline. Certain microbes will completely digest these chemicals, and transform them in to harmless water and gases such as carbon dioxide. However, for these microbes to work efficiently, certain environmental conditions should be met. Factors like temperature, nutrients, oxygen, and other chemicals needed for their work must be present. These factors when present in right amount will allow rapid growth and reproduction of these microbes, and thus, rapid process of cleaning up the contaminants. But the process is more than this.

In this module, you will study the principles behind this technology, how it is currently practiced, and the factors that affect the process. To further your learning, a case study is presented to allow you to see how it is being implemented and studied in situ.


Below is a list of topics for this module. Click on each topic to access or download the resource materials.

1. Principles of Bioremediation
2. Current Practice of Bioremediation
3. Factors Affecting Bioremediation
4. Case Study

Activity

Watch the video clip below. This video shows research activities that led to the development of the bioremediation technology.

Video

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