Electrokinetics Bioremediation: Concept, Application and Future Opportunities
Harsharan Singh , Kumkum Sapehia and Jitender Kumar
2025/05/19
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15464756
ABSTRACT
Environmental pollution is a gigantic challenge faced by the global community belonging to the present era. The researchers and environmentalists around the globe are working tirelessly to combat and reduce the pollution or contaminants with an aim to make the climatic conditions healthy and fit for the global community. The multiple anthropological, industrial, and environmental events are responsible for escalating the deterioration of the environment and earth. Bioremediation is an environment-friendly and sustainable approach to reducing and regulating naturally present pollutants. It utilizes multiple microbial organisms to break down and detoxify environmental pollutants from polluted mixtures to safeguard the environment and earth. The core principles of bioremediation include a number of important techniques to reduce environmental pollutants, such as adsorption, redox processes, and pH level modification. These approaches seek to lessen the effects of pollutants in the environment. The bioremediation procedure suffers from different drawbacks, like the availability of contaminants and their accessibility to microorganisms, and the adaptation/ modification of native microbes for biodegradation of suitable target contaminants, which are critical factors in bioremediation processes. The effective bulk supply of electron collectors and essential components to the microbes poses significant challenges. These limitations can be mitigated through the integration of bioremediation techniques with electrokinetics (EK), specifically utilizing electrobioremediation technology. This approach involves the use of electricity on a perforated subsurface matrix, which activates the targeted precise movement of desired components. Electrobioremediation harnesses electrokinetic effects to enhance and directionalize the transport of environmental pollutants and microbial populations toward remediation targets. The present manuscript discussed the EK-assisted electrobioremediation technology along with its potential application and challenges.
AUTHOR AFFILIATIONS
1 Department of Plant Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Central University Himachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Pin-176206, India
2 PG students of Department of Plant Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Central University Himachal Pradesh Himachal Pradesh, Pin-176206, India
CITATION
Singh H, Sapehia K and Kumar J (2025) Electrokinetics Bioremediation: Concept, Application and Future Opportunities. Environmental Science Archives 4(1): 260-273.
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