Australia's own PCE and TCE bioremediation culture mix

Micronovo’s famous AusPCE organohalide-respiring dehalococcoides culture mix has come back home! AusPCE was isolated and bred by Michael Manefield and his team at UNSW in 2010 from groundwater at Botany Industrial Park. They travelled to Victoria to remediate Orica Deer Park’s groundwater in Australia’s first application of in-situ bioaugmentation treatment with organohalide-respiring bacteria. They have since travelled widely, remediating groundwater at former TCE-contaminated industrial sites and PCE-contaminated dry cleaner sites all around Australia!

After living for a while at UNSW and then in Moss Vale, this week Micronovo's AusPCE finally came home to their Gameygal Country! They are now living (and multiplying) at Micronovo’s new premises within the Groundwater Treatment Plant maintenance building at Botany Industrial Park. Hence, we did a homecoming photoshoot!

AusPCE bioremediates PCE and TCE contaminated groundwater, ensuring complete dechlorination of contaminants to harmless ethene (in other words, the ripening gas released by bananas). AusPCE can also be used to remediate PCB (poly-chlorinated bi-phenol contaminated soil and groundwater).

AusPCE isn't our only bioremediation culture mix, so if f you have a halogenated hydrocarbon contaminant on your site, contact us for help, including:

• Chlorinated ethenes: PCE, TCE, DCE and VC (per-chloroethene, tri-chloroethene, di-chloroethene and vinyl chloride);

• Chlorinated ethanes: 1,2DCA (EDC),

• Chlorinated methanes: CT, CF and DCM (Carbon Tetrachloride, Trichloromethane, Dichloromethane)