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CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 275, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.130062
Keywords
Petroleum hydrocarbon contaminated soil; Soil microbial community; Bacillus; Rhamnolipid; Remediation practice
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- Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province of China [2019-ZD-0541]
- Tianjin Research Innovation Project for Postgraduate Students [2020YJSB053]
- Independent Innovation Fund of Tianjin University [2020XT-0007]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41807384]
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The study found that inoculating Bacillus methylotrophicus and adding rhamnolipid can effectively degrade TPH in petroleum-contaminated soil. After remediation, the abundance of indigenous petroleum-degrading bacteria increased significantly, and the interaction among microorganisms can promote non-specific oxidases to remove TPH in soil.
Soil petroleum contamination has become a global environmental problem. In order to develop a new soil remediation technology, this study established bacteria isolation, surfactant toxicity matching and petroleum contaminated soil remediation practice. The simulated field remediation showed that inoculating the soil with Bacillus methylotrophicus and adding 500 mg kg(-1) rhamnolipid (N + RL) to soil can remove 80.24% of aged total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPHs) within 30 days. In particular, although the remediated soil has inoculated sufficient bacterial suspension, the microbial abundance of Bacillus was not a significantly dominant genus after remediation, especially in N + RL (0.73% of the total), but the colonies of indigenous petroleum-degrading bacteria (such as Massilia and Streptomyces) increased significantly. The interaction among genera has been further proved to drive soil non-specific oxidases (such as polyphenol oxidase, laccase and catalase) to remove TPHs. This indicates that the interaction among microorganisms, rather than the degradability of exogenous degrading bacteria, plays more critical role in the degradation of organic pollutants, which enriches the traditional understanding of micro-remediation of contaminated soil. It can be concluded from the obtained results that the remediation of pollutants can be achieved by adjusting the purification capacity of the microbial community and the natural environment. (C) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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