Built on years of successful collaboration, Microbial Insights (MI) maintains working relationships with a variety of leading companies that develop and provide amendments like electron donors, electrons acceptors, and bioaugmentation cultures. MI is a privately held woman owned business, not owned by a consulting firm, product vendor, or investor conglomerate. As an independent laboratory committed…
Leveraging MBTs at Remediation Projects: Save Money and Improve Outcomes Microbial Insights has extensive expertise and experience helping clients to leverage our highly accurate, cost-effective, and informative molecular biological tools (MBTs) to provide the comprehensive data needed to select and implement effective environmental remediation strategies. Throughout the lifecycle of a remediation project, there are several…
Highlighting Min-Traps: Revolutionizing Monitoring to Document Abiotic Degradation The Min-Trap® sampler passively collects direct mineralogical data using existing monitoring wells. Many in-situ groundwater treatment technologies for chlorinated solvents, as well as many metals and other contaminants, rely upon the formation, dissolution, and/or transformation of target solid-phase minerals either to sequester or degrade groundwater contaminants. However, evaluation of…
• The ISM study conducted at this site provided clear, actionable evidence that increasing the dissolved oxygen concentration at the site would stimulate hydrocarbon biodegradation. Further, this evidence was provided in a significantly more cost effective manner than a bench-scale treatability study or a pilot scale study and in a more timely manner.
• A site impacted by chlorobenzene was managed by MNA.
• The ISM study provided answers to site managers’ questions at a significant cost savings compared to pilot-scale studies and provided sound support for a pathway to reducing time to closure at the site.
• The ISM study conducted at this site provided clear, actionable evidence that electron donor injection would stimulate reductive dechlorination without the need for expensive bioaugmentation. Further, this evidence was provided in a significantly more cost effective manner than a bench-scale treatability study or a pilot scale study and in a more timely manner.