• Letter From The President – Volume 4

    During my post-doctoral training at the U.S. EPA Environmental Research Laboratory in Gulf Breeze, Florida (1988 – 1990), my colleagues and I discovered a microbe with the ability to utilize high-molecular-weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons as sole sources of carbon and energy for growth.  Together with the U.S. EPA we obtained several patents on that core […]

  • Provectus Honors IET’s Patent Rights

    INDUSTRY AWARENESS: PROVECTUS HONORS UNITED STATES PATENT No. 7,531,709 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — (BUSINESS WIRE) — June 15, 2015. There is considerable confusion and speculation in the industry today concerning intellectual property rights as they relate to the combined use of an organic hydrogen donor (e.g., fermentable carbon source) plus a zero valent metal (e.g., zero-valent iron, […]

  • AquaBlok-CH4™ Technology for Inhibiting Methanogenesis during In Situ Sediment Treatment

    AquaBlok-CH4™ Technology for Inhibiting Methanogenesis during In Situ Sediment Treatment Third International Symposium on Bioremediation and Sustainable Environmental Technologies | May 18-21, 2015 | Miami, Florida By John Hull (AquaBlok, Ltd.) and Jim Mueller (Provectus Environmental Products, Inc) Problem: In situ sediment capping remediation systems mitigate the migration of contaminants through sediments. Two generalized approaches are: (1) passive […]

  • ERD-CH4™ Antimethanogenic, Liquid ERD Amendment

    ERD-CH4™ Antimethanogenic, Liquid ERD Amendment Third International Symposium on Bioremediation and Sustainable Environmental Technologies | May 18-21, 2015  | Miami, Florida By Jim Mueller (Provectus Environmental Products – Freeport, IL) and John Haselow (Redox-Tech, LLC – Cary, NC) Problem: There are recognized benefits to methanogens and of limited methanogenesis.  For example, i) methanogens are known to play […]