Publications by Elsa Marina Lacroix

Control of groundwater pH during bioremediation: Improvement and validation of a geochemical model to assess the buffering potential of ground silicate minerals

Christof Holliger, David Andrew Barry, Alessandro Brovelli, Elsa Marina Lacroix

Accurate control of groundwater pH is of critical importance for in situ biological treatment of chlorinated solvents. The use of ground silicate minerals mixed with groundwater is an appealing buffering strategy as silicate minerals may act as long-term s ...

Elsevier2014

Use of silicate minerals for pH control during reductive dechlorination of chloroethenes in batch cultures of different microbial consortia

Christof Holliger, David Andrew Barry, Alessandro Brovelli, Elsa Marina Lacroix

In chloroethene-contaminated sites undergoing in situ bioremediation, groundwater acidification is a frequent problem in the source zone, and buffering strategies have to be implemented to maintain the pH in the neutral range. An alternative to conventiona ...

American Society for Microbiology2014

Use of silicate minerals for long-term pH control during reductive dechlorination of high tetrachloroethene concentrations in continuous flow-through columns

Christof Holliger, Julien Maillard, Emmanuelle Rohrbach, David Andrew Barry, Alessandro Brovelli, Elsa Marina Lacroix

The long-term buffering potential of three silicate minerals (diopside, fayalite and forsterite) present as fine particles in porous quartz sand medium was evaluated in flow-through column experiments over a period of 6.5 months. The columns were operated ...

Elsevier2014

Using Silicate Mineral Particles for pH Control during in situ Bioremediation of Chlorinated Ethene Source Zones

Elsa Marina Lacroix

Soil and groundwater pollution by chlorinated solvents such as tricholorethene (TCE) and tetrachloroethene (PCE) is a frequent problem in the industrialized world. Chlorinated solvents, characterized by a low solubility and a density greater than water, fo ...

EPFL2013

Evaluation of silicate minerals for pH control during bioremediation: Application to chlorinated solvents

Christof Holliger, David Andrew Barry, Alessandro Brovelli, Elsa Marina Lacroix

Accurate control of groundwater pH is of critical importance for in situ biological treatment of chlorinated solvents. This study evaluated a novel approach for buffering subsurface pH that relies on the use of silicate minerals as a long-term source of al ...

2012

Buffering soil-water acidity in chlorinated solvent bioremediation schemes

Christof Holliger, David Andrew Barry, Alessandro Brovelli, Clare Robinson, Elsa Marina Lacroix

Chlorinated solvents form a significant part of groundwater contamination worldwide. They are difficult to remove via physical means, and anaerobic source-zone remediation based on provision of fermentable e-donor is an attractive clean-up dechlorination o ...

International Union of Soil Sciences2010