Microbial repairing of concrete & its role in CO2 sequestration: a critical review

Bandyopadhyay, Atrayee; Saha, Anwesha; Ghosh, Diya; Dam, Bomba; Samanta, Amiya K.; Dutta, Susmita

doi:10.1186/s43088-023-00344-1

Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences

Table 2 Different microorganisms and nutrients used to create CaCO₃ in concrete/mortar matrix

From: Microbial repairing of concrete & its role in CO₂ sequestration: a critical review

Precipitation mechanism	Microorganism	Nutrients and added chemical	References
Bacterial metabolic conversion of organic acid	Bacillus pseudofirmus B. cohnii	Calcium lactate, calcium acetate, yeast extract and peptone	Jonkers et al. [25]
	B. cohnii	Calcium lactate and yeast extract	Sierra-Beltran et al. [32]
	Sporosarcina pasteuri Bacillus cohnii Bacillus halodurans Bacillus pseudofirmus	Sodium-citric acid/Peptone, yeast extract, sodium bicarbonate,	Jonkers and Schlangen [63]
	Bacillus strain B2-E2-1	Calcium lactate	Jonkers [6]
Ureolysis	Bacillus alkalinitrilicus	Calcium lactate and yeast extract	Wiktor and Jonkers [26]
	Bacillus sphaericus	Urea and calcium chloride	Achal et al. [33]
	Bacillus sphaericus	Urea, calcium chloride, calcium nitrate and yeast extract	Tittelboom et al. [28]
	Bacillus sphaericus	Urea, calcium chloride and calcium acetate	Muynck et al. [31] Muynck et al. [47] Muynck et al. [48]
	S. pasteurii Pseudomonas aeruginosa	Urea and calcium chloride	Ramachandran [45]
	Sporosarcina pasteurii	Urea, Yeast extract, Tris-buffer, Ammonium Sulfate, Calcium chloride	Wang et al. [74]
	S. pasteurii B. Subtilis	Urea, Peptone, meat extract and calcium chloride	Nosouhian et al. [60]
	Bacillus sphaericus	Urea, Yeast extract, and calcium nitrate	Wang et al. [30]
	Bacillus pasteurii (DSM 33)	Beef extract, Peptone, urea, agar	Qian et al. [62]
	Bacillus megaterium	Urea, Beef extract, yeast extract, Wheat Bran	Krishnapriya et al. [53]
	Bacillus megaterium	Peptone, yeast extract, beef extract, sodium chloride, Agar, Urea, Calcium Chloride	Kaur et al. [13]
Carbonic anhydrase	Bacillus megaterium	Peptone, yeast extract, beef extract, sodium chloride, Agar, CO₂ influx	Kaur et al. [13]
Denitrification	Diaphorobacter nitroreducens Bacillus sphaericus	Urea, calcium formate, calcium nitrate, yeast extract	Ersan et al. [69]
Denitrification	Alkaliphilic bacteria	Sodium-silicate, sodium-gluconate, Calcium-nitrate	Wiktor and Jonkers [67]
Oxygenic photosynthesis (by Cyanobacteria)	Synechococcus PCC8806	Calcium chloride	Zhu et al. [71]
Oxygenic photosynthesis (by Cyanobacteria)	Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 Synechococcus sp. LS0519 Synechococcus sp. PCC8806	sodium bicarbonate, calcium chloride	Zhu et al. [72]
Microbial-induced CO₂ capture precipitation	Bacillus mucilaginosus	Yeast extract, Tryptone, Sodium chloride, Calcium hydroxide, CO₂	Wang et al. [74]

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