Heavy metal bioremediation using microbially induced carbonate precipitation: Key factors and enhancement strategies.

ABSTRACT: With the development of economy, heavy metal (HM) contamination has become an issue of global concern, seriously threating animal and human health. Looking for appropriate methods that decrease their bioavailability in the environment is crucial. Microbially induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) has been proposed as a promising bioremediation method to immobilize contaminating metals in a sustainable, eco-friendly, and energy saving manner. However, its performance is always affected by many factors in practical application, both intrinsic and external. This paper mainly introduced ureolytic bacteria-induced carbonate precipitation and its implements in HM bioremediation. The mechanism of HM immobilization and in-situ application strategies (that is, biostimulation and bioaugmentat

SUBMITTER: Zhang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9932936 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature