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

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.

authors

• Knap, Anthony

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

• Wiley  Publisher

published in

• n0375-9210ISSN  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1002/jctb.5020260178

start page

• 550

end page

• 558

volume

• 26

issue

• 10

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jctb.5020260178