Nature's helpers: Using microorganisms to remove TCE from water

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Bruce Rittmanns Biodesign Institute research team has utilized a system called the microbial biofilm reactor that uses a naturally occurring group of microorganisms to remove TCE from water. Here ASU assistant professor Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown and grad ...
Bruce Rittmann's Biodesign Institute research team has utilized a system, called the microbial biofilm reactor, that uses a naturally occurring group of microorganisms to remove TCE from water. Here, ASU assistant professor Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown and graduate research assistant Michal Ziv-El assemble a membrane biofilm reactor to test against TCE. Credit: Barb Backes, Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University

In 2002, Bruce Rittmann, PhD, director of the Biodesign Institute’s Center for Environmental Biotechnology, received a patent for an innovative way to use nature to lend society a hand. He invented a treatment system, called the membrane biofilm reactor (MBfR), which uses naturally occurring microorganisms to remove contaminants from water.


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