Discover your options for contaminated soil remediation

Not sure where to even begin with bioremediation?

For the process to be effective, then it’s vital to know which bacterial species (or bioremediating agent) to use at your site — and if bioremediation will work at all.

To achieve that, you need unambiguous testing results. These will let you know how your site will react to different bioremediation agents.

At Novorem, we can test the response of your contaminated groundwater and soil samples to different stimuli — before you make any decisions and commit to on-site injections for in situ bioremediation.

How does Bench Testing work?

Essentially, Bench Testing is an analysis of your contaminated samples.

Testing determines if the naturally-occurring microbes in your sample are able to catalyse reactions that are helping or hindering the process of bioremediation.

You can gain insight into whether a desired biological activity (such as hydrocarbon degradation) is naturally occurring, or if there is something present that’s inhibitory to a desired biological activity.

We can test:

  • The addition of electron donors, acceptors or nutrients to your sample, and if it will result in a drop in harmful contaminants — a biostimulation test.
  • The effectiveness of commercially available hydrocarbon degrading cultures and chlorinated solvent respiring cultures that have been taken from a solvent contaminated site — a bioaugmentation test.
  • The results of different amendments when applied to a contaminated sample — a comparison test.

What the process looks like:

Testing chlorinated-solvent-contaminated groundwater

Testing hydrocarbon contaminated groundwater

Options for Bench Testing (Microcosm Studies)

Bioaugmentation

Test to discover if introducing chlorinated solvent respiring cultures or hydrocarbon degrading cultures will be effective at consuming contaminants.

Biostimulation

Test to discover if feeding and stimulating cultures already present at your site will be effective at consuming contaminants.

Natural Attenuation

Find out what you need to monitor at your site to know if bioremediation is working.

Want to know how Bench Tests can work for your groundwater contamination?

Learn more about the reactions of your microbial community.

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