Hydrocarbon Remediation – A Natural Ecological Remedy to Purify Ground Water Hydrocarbon remediation is essentially a process that involves interaction of microorganisms like microbes and bacteria with the hydrocarbon molecules. The end product of this bio-chemical reaction is water and carbon dioxide. This process that dates back to Before Christ era is now adopted by companies to enable purification of contaminated soil and water. The remediation process has become noticeably popular for large-scale cleaning up of soil and water pollutants,
Firstly because does not involve huge equipment and large workforce Secondly because it is highly affordable thirdly because it helps the poisonous chemicals like hydrocarbons to disintegrate into compounds that are environment friendly The microbial solution does not affect the natural flora and fauna of the area.
There are quite a few bioremediation companies in the world. The Saskatchewan province in Canada houses one of the leading bioremediation companies in that part of the world. The company develops its own in-house bioremediation technologies; as a result, its work in this particular field is also covered by environmental magazines and studied by university level students as bioremediation case study. Using its exclusive path-breaking technology the company is helping the province regain its original ground water quality. In a particular bioremediation case study, the company had as many as 11 points of injecting microbes at the contaminated area as part of an in situ bioremediation. Typically the hydrocarbon bioremediation process is a gradual process and takes from few months to couple of years to clear out the hydrocarbon molecules completely. In the particular case study, it was proved that over a period of fifteen months, there was considerable reduction in the hydrocarbon concentration in the area and at the end of the fifteenth month the remediation was completed and the soil and the water of the area was declared pollutant free.