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  • Title: Factors affecting soil treatment with the microbially induced carbonate precipitation technique and its optimization.
    Author: Su F, Wang Y, Liu Y, Zhang J, Liu X, Zhang S.
    Journal: J Microbiol Methods; 2023 Aug; 211():106771. PubMed ID: 37343839.
    Abstract:
    The microbially induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) technique has been used to increase mechanical strength, reduce permeability, and fix radionuclides of soils, etc. To achieve effective soil cementation by MICP, 3 aspects should be considered: MICP efficiency, bacterium retention (in soils after injections), and precipitation uniformity. Here, experiments and statistical analyses were conducted to understand the parameters affecting the 3 aspects. Moreover, the parameters leading to better performance in these aspects were designed and used to conduct MICP soil cementation with varying the number of injections. The results present that temperature and OD600nm of bacterial suspension are the most important parameters affecting MICP efficiency, followed by reaction time, pH, and concentration of cementation solution, and they are all statistically significant. As these parameters increased, MICP efficiency (ratio of CaCO3 formed to Ca2+ added) first increased quickly and then slowly or decreased. The soil particle size distribution and injection rate affected bacterium retention greatly. Smaller particle sizes, wider particle-size-distribution spans, and slower injection rates are beneficial to bacterium retention. However, higher injection rates favour precipitation uniformity. Finally, the unconfined compressive strength (UCS) of the bio-treated soil can be increased further by increasing the number of injections.
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