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Akpo DM
Akpo DM
Nigeria
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Crude Oil Contaminant and Bio-remediation using Brewery Mash and Earthworm (Nsukkadrilus mbae.) a Consortium to Cleaning-up and Restoring Soil Fertility Potentials
Author(s): Okpashi VE, Igori Wallace and Akpo DMOkpashi VE, Igori Wallace and Akpo DM
In this research, we perceived that some approaches adopted by environmentalist and researchers to remediate crude oil contaminated soil, by using microorganisms such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Aspergilus nigar and Azotobacter have obvious drawback. Thus we set out to adopt synergistic application of earthworms and brewery mash as consortiums for cleaning-up crude oil contaminated soil. The result gave significant reduction of contaminants in the soil. The efficiency of this approach arose due to considerable biological influence of earthworms in the soil by burrowing, feeding on the brewery mash, promoting aeration and facilitating rapid oxidation of the contaminants. The brewery mash was introduced as nutritional additive that would supplement for the depleted nitrogen and phosphorus, to facilitate associated feeding regimes. Wherein the brewery mash ser.. View More»
DOI: 10.4172/2157-7463.1000223