Microbial CaCO3 Precipitation: For the Production of Biocement

By Victoria S. Whiffin. 2008

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Citations in the corpus

• Effect of particle size distribution on the bio-cementation of coarse aggregates (2017, methodology): “Urease activity rate was determined via a solution conductivity assay (labCHEM-CP) and equation [2, 30].”
• High strength in-situ biocementation of soil by calcite precipitating locally isolated ureolytic bacteria (2008, methodology): “Cost-saving process as the bacterial enzyme was reused in subsequent applications (2-3) of calcium and urea only (Whiffin, 2004).”
• Compression behavior of MICP-treated sand with various gradations (2020, background): “Previous researches suggested that the effects of MICP treatment might be influenced by many factors, such as strains of microbes [19, 76], concentration of urease [8, 43, 58], concentration of bacterial cell [4, 59], oxygen availability [32], temperature [22, 43, 67], pH [9, 56, 62], degree of satu”
• Ureolytic Bacteria and Calcium Carbonate Formation as a Mechanism of Strength Enhancement of Sand (2011, methodology): “The study of Whiffin (2004) was the first published study in bacterial plugging of loose sandy material through urea hydrolysis (BioGrout) for the purpose of strength production.”
• Modification of recycled concrete aggregate by calcium carbonate biodeposition (2012, background): “According to Whiffin [22] brewery waste yeast and torula yeast, being the wastes from agriculture and food industry, can be also used as an alternative to expensive protein sources (yeast extract).”
• Applicability of Enzymatic Calcium Carbonate Precipitation as a Soil-Strengthening Technique (2013, background): “Such a low content may not be enough to solidify the sample, as explained by Whiffin et al. (2007) and as is evident from visual observations.”
• Biological process of soil improvement in civil engineering: A review (2016, background): “It was also reported by Whiffin (2004) that the urease activity increases proportionally with the increasing temperature up to 70 C.”