AEROBIC DEGRADATION OF HYDROCARBONS IN SOIL - SIGNIFICANCE OF AN INITIAL RISE IN OXYGEN-UPTAKE RATE FOLLOWING CONTAMINATION WITH OIL uri icon

abstract

  • The addition of hydrocarbon oil to soil results in a marked, though brief, increase in the rate of oxygen uptake by the soil. Investigation of this phenomenon in an electrolytic respirometer has shown that it cannot be accounted for by oxidation of part of the added hydrocarbon. It is probably due to microbial lysis or the release of nutrients induced by addition of the oil.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

author list (cited authors)

  • BLAKEBROUGH, N., GARNER, P. J., KNAP, A. H., RAISBECK, J. M., & HEPPELL, D.

citation count

  • 1

complete list of authors

  • BLAKEBROUGH, N||GARNER, PJ||KNAP, AH||RAISBECK, JM||HEPPELL, D

publication date

  • January 1976

publisher