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Are specialty microorganisms or inoculants required?

April 26, 2017inoculants microorganisms specialty

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Are specialty microorganisms or inoculants required?

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ISCR is the combined effect of chemical and biological oxygen scavenging which facilitates rapid oxygen consumption and establishment of reduced Eh. Generation of significantly lowered reducing conditions usually eliminates any requirement for specialty microorganisms or inoculants. However, in some cases, the addition of Dehalococcoides inocula such as KB-1™ in combination with the EHC® ISCR amendments, may assist in decreasing microbial acclimatization time, and KB-1 plus EHC has proven to be useful in accelerating site remediation. However, our experience suggests that the same end points will ultimately be realized without inoculum addition.