STUDY OF THE BIOLOGICAL DESTRUCTIVE SEPARATION OF HAZARDOUS CONTAMINANTS FROM TOWN GAS SOILS

Soil contamination from hazardous materials has existed since the begi nning of the industrial age. At that time, unwanted liquid products we re disposed of by dumping into unlined pits. Today, the chemical indus try is faced with cleaning up these old hazardous waste sites as well as any new site. The hardest part associated with successful soil reme diation is the separation of the adsorbed contaminant from the soil. C urrent research has demonstrated promising results for the destructive separation of hazardous contaminants using bioremediation. This paper addresses the process and results for biological destruction of conta minants from a town gas soil using Mycobacterium sp.