Intensification of the aerobic bioremediation of an actual site soil historically contaminated by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) through bioaugmentation with a non acclimated, complex source of microorganisms

Table 2 Main features of Enzyveba inoculum. Main chemical and microbiological properties of the Enzyveba suspension employed to inoculate the reactors. Each value of biomass concentration is the average of duplicate analyses performed on a single sample of inoculum

	Parameter values
Chemical parameters
pH	7.7
Chloride ions (mg/l)	73
Microbiological characteristics
Total heterotrophic cultivable aerobic bacteria (CFU/ml)	2.82 × 10⁷ ± 6.80 × 10⁶
Total aerobic bacteria growing on biphenyl (CFU/ml)	<10²
Total aerobic bacteria growing on CBA (CFU/ml)	4.50 × 10⁴ ± 5.00 × 10³
Total fungi (CFU/ml)	5.35 × 10⁴ ± 2.65 × 10⁴

ISSN: 1475-2859