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Rocket-Fueled Bacteria Clean Up Waste
Bacteria that make rocket fuel as part of their metabolism are making sewage treatment less expensive and kinder to the environment, British researchers say. The microbes, whose biology is baffling scientists, have also helped solve a long-standing mystery about the world's oceans, scientists reported in this week's issue of the journal Nature. The bacteria, provisionally called "Brocadia anammoxidans," were discovered in a yeast plant in the Netherlands in the late 1990s. They consume ammonia and convert it into nitrogen gas, producing hydrazine, or rocket fuel, as part of the process known as the anammox reaction. Although researchers are puzzled as to how the bacteria manage to contain the explosive compound, scientists have already put them to work breaking down the ammonia-rich waste from sewage and industrial effluent. Nature reports the new anammox treatment plants consume less fuel and cause less pollution than conventional ones and might soon become commonplace around the world. All rights reserved. © 2005 United Press International. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by United Press International.. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of United Press International. Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express 
SSWM Bio-Raptor Demonstrates Its Solvents & Rocket Pollution Solution
Carlsbad CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2004Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware, a subsidiary of US Microbics, recently announced it has successfully completed a full-scale, paid demonstration of its Bio-Raptor treatment system technology for the rapid cleanup of soils impacted with Perchlorates at a confidential client's former rocket fuel manufacturing facility. |
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