Process for soil remediation and apparatus used therefor
US5906932A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 10, 1997 |
| Grant date | May 25, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 10, 2017 |
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- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB09C2101/00
- WIPO fieldEnvironmental technology
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A soil remedying process for the soil contaminated with a volatile pollutant, which comprises the steps of forming in a probe a remediation site containing a microorganism which can degrade the volatile pollutant, introducing the volatile pollutant into the remediation site in the probe, and degrading the volatile pollutant by the microorganism.
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