Clean your contaminated groundwater or soil site naturally

Looking for a proven and highly-effective method for groundwater or soil remediation?

If enhancing the microorganisms at your site isn’t possible, then another viable option for bioremediation is to grow the cultures you need for decontamination.

Injecting hydrocarbon or solvent-degrading cultures into groundwater is a cost-effective and trustworthy method of contaminated site clean-up.

Using our safe methods and experience, Novorem can provide advice on the appropriate culture for your needs. We then grow the cultures in our labs. From there, we can either send them to you or help you inject them on site. If the conditions of pH and ORP are right, our cultures can be active and work anywhere in the world

How do Cultures work?

When it comes to contaminated groundwater and soil, microbes may be present in your site which naturally degrade hydrocarbons and solvents, or you may have bacteria present that can do part of the job, but are not adequate for complete site clean-up (eg cis-DCE stall).

In such cases, the addition of specific bacterial cultures to contaminated groundwater can drive the required transformations to complete the job. The addition of microbes to contaminated sites is commonly referred to as bioaugmentation.

Types of Cultures

Novorem has pioneered the production and use of these cultures for decontamination. We have exclusive rights to supply the first 1,2-DCA-degrading culture ever produced in Australia, and we were the first in the country to produce chlorinated-ethene-reducing cultures.

Furthermore, one of Novorem’s crowning achievements is being the first in the world to producing a chloroform degrading culture.

Chlorinated Ethanes

These cultures cause the complete dechlorination of 1,2-DCA into ethene (which is harmless to sites).

Chlorinated Ethenes

These cultures cause the complete dechlorination of chlorinated ethenes (such as PCE) into ethene.

Chlorinated Methanes

These cultures cause the complete dechlorination of chlorinated methanes (such as CF and DCM) into methane.

Hydrocarbons

Novorem offers Remediator for use on direct hydrocarbon spills or on hydrocarbon contaminated soil.

What others have to say about Bioremediation with Cultures

“We have utilised Micronovo (now Novorem) in a variety of roles from detection and quantification of bacteria and functional genes, through to the field delivery of bacterial cultures for remediation purposes. The obvious enthusiasm in what they do translates to excellent turnaround times and a high level of responsiveness. Their location here in Australia also results in advantages in sample integrity and again responsiveness. We have no hesitation in recommending their services which we continue to utilise.” 

– Andrew Cooper, Orica Ltd

Want to know how Cultures can work for you?

Learn more about injecting lab-grown microbes at your site.

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