MULTIBARRIER Multifunctional permeable barriers carrying well-performing microbial biofilms for treatment of mixed pollutant plumes

Country: EU Projects
Start Date:           Duration: 36 months         Project Type: RTD
Contract Number: QLK3-CT-2000-00163
Organisation Type:  EC Project
Topics: 
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->In situ treatment technologies
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->Passive and hydraulicContainment
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->Permeable reactive barriers
Groundwater protection-->Groundwater protection overview
Project objectives:
To develop the MULTIBARRIER concept for treatment of mixed pollution on a laboratory scale up to the scale of a container pilot system and to evaluate the concept 
for field application. To select and find microbial populations suitable for the MULTIBARRIER technology. To optimise the performance of the MULTIBARRIER communities by adequately supplementing growth-promoting additives. To understand the interactions between the key-components (chemistry, biology, physics) of the MULTIBARRIER and define occurring physico-(bio)chemical
xenobiotic removal/degradation pathways. To characterise and monitor the MULTIBARRIER microbial communities. To define a full-scale implementation strategy of a MULTIBARRIER.
Project Summary:
Groundwater polluted with complex mixtures of different pollutants constitutes a major threat to European groundwater resources. Permeable barrier technology 
is a sustainable in situ system to reduce risks associated with polluted water flowing in the direction of important groundwater resources. However, plumes
polluted with pollutant mixtures are non-treatable using the currently available barrier technology. This project aims to develop and examine the feasibility
of a Multifunctional Permeable Barrier (MULTIBARRIER) which combines different principles of barrier technology, namely the removal of pollutants based
on both physico-chemical (zero valent iron for chemical reductive dechlorination/ sorbing materials) and biological activities (biofilm on MULTIBARRIER
material) in order to treat mixed polluted plumes. The project foresees the development of the MULTIBARRIER from laboratory scale to pilot scale and includes
the selective enrichment of specifically designed biofilm communities. Furthermore, it includes characterisation of the microbial populations involved,
the (bio)chemical/ biological interactions taking place and the removal/degradation pathways of the pollutants.
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Project Resources:

Combined removal of chlorinated ethenes and heavy metals in zerovalent Iron systems

Kinetics of trichloroethene reduction by zerovalent iron: effect of solution composition

A sequential reactive barrier concept for remediation of groundwater containing mixed pollution. Third international conference on Remadiation of chlorinated and recalcitrant compounds.

Effect of humic acids on heavy metal removal by zerovalent iron. Third international conference on Remediation of chlorinated and recalcitrant compounds

The effect of zero valent iron on the enrichment of anaerobic BTX degrading microbiota under mixed multibarrier conditions.

An anaerobic sequential reactive barrier concept for remediation of groundwater containing mixed pollution.

Removal of mixed chlorinated ethenes and heavy metals in zerovalent iron

Treatment of multiple component pollution in a multibarrier system.

Landfill leachates and groundwater pollutants toxicity and genotoxicity measurement before and after treatment on anaerobic columns.

Characterization and genetic identification of denitrifying strains degrading BTm-X

Combined removal of chlorinated ethenes and heavy metals in zero-valent iron systems

Kinetics of trichloroethene (TCE) reduction by zero-valent iron: effect of medium composition

Permeable Reactive Barriers: a multidisciplinary approach of a new emerging sustainable groundwater treatment technology

Effect of humic acids on heavy metal removal by zero-valent iron

Toxicity and mutangenicity measurement of environment pollutants

Multifunctional permeable barriers for treating mixed pollutant plumes

Multibarrier, a technology concept for the in-situ remediation of mixed groundwater pollution
Weblink:
http://www.multibarrier.vito.be/default.asp
Funding Programme(s): 
EC Framework Programme 5
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Submitted by: EUGRIS Team Dr Stefan Gödeke  Who does what?  18/03/2005 12:09:00
Updated by: EUGRIS Team Professor Paul Bardos  Who does what?  03/10/2006 13:15:00