Method for remediating environmental contaminants
AssigneesThe United States of America as represented by the Environmental Protection Agency, Dyncorp
InventorsN. Lee Wolfe, Laura H. Carreira, Mark C. Delgado
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Abstract
A method and composition for the remediation of environmental contaminants in soil, sediment, aquifer material or water wherein contaminants are first reduced with a reducing agent found in sediment and are then oxidized to environmentally safe products. The composition includes a reducing agent, solubilized from sediment by a solvent, for reduction of environmental contaminants such as nitroorganics, halogenated hydrocarbons, cyano compounds, anisoles and metals.
Claims13
A method for the remediation of an environmental contaminant comprising the steps of:
- a) incubating the contaminant with a reducing agent under anaerobic conditions for a sufficient amount of time to reduce the contaminant;
- wherein the reducing agent is a sediment plant enzyme, and,
- b) oxidizing the reduced contaminant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.