CAN BIOREMEDIATION BE ACCELERATED?
Bioavailability enhancing mixtures exponentially augment all microbes by making their food more available to the microbes and their multitudes of rapidly produced descendants. This is best accomplished by breaking the substrate into tiny droplets (colloids) which are suspended in water thereby increasing the surface area available to the microbes while at the same time providing the necessary oil-water interface. Bioremediation takes place only at the oil-water interface. This provides for an extremely rapid microbial population explosion and more rapid and efficient bioremediation. Microbes capable of producing enzymes that act on the hydrocarbons must be present with adequate moisture and minerals supplied if necessary. The major consideration then must be the bioavailability of the substrate. The use of any chemicals detrimental to the microbes will diminish or destroy subsequent microbial activity and bioremediation. Bioavailability enhancing agents should not only more rapidly pre
