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Prognosis of Course and Degree of Microbial Degradation
Author(s) -
Federbusch U.,
Albrecht K.F.,
Miethe D.,
Babel W.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
chemical engineering and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1521-4125
pISSN - 0930-7516
DOI - 10.1002/1521-4125(200101)24:1<31::aid-ceat31>3.0.co;2-m
Subject(s) - degree (music) , biochemical engineering , environmental remediation , environmental science , degradation (telecommunications) , contamination , work (physics) , mathematical model , process (computing) , process engineering , environmental engineering , computer science , mathematics , engineering , statistics , ecology , biology , mechanical engineering , telecommunications , physics , acoustics , operating system
Recently, mathematical modeling of microbial processes has received increased scientific and technical interest. For microbial remediation processes in organic‐polluted soils, duration and degree of microbial contamination are estimated from preliminary lab‐scale tests. The empirical methods used so far for estimating the process characteristics require tedious measurements. The objective of this work is to investigate whether mathematical modeling can help to shorten the experimental effort by providing good estimations of these characteristics much earlier.