Abstract: A method for the cleanup of site/sediments contaminated by heavy metals, or by chlorobenzoate, polychlorobenzoates, monochlorophenol, polychlorophenols, polychlorobiphenyl (PCB) compounds or phosphogypsum, includes treating the contaminated sites/sediments by anaerobic mesophilic bacteria (Mesotoga lineage) belonging to the order of Thermotogales.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 19, 2010
Publication date:
August 1, 2013
Applicants:
Institut National Sciences Appliquees Technologie (Insat), Institut De Recherche Pour Le Developpement (I.R.D)
Inventors:
Bernard Ollivier, Marie-Laure Fardeau, Wajdi Ben Hania, Ramzi Ghodbane, Moktar Hamdi