Wisconsin Sea Grant Littoral Drift May 1995 May 1995 issue Table of Contents 1. Cleaning the Air in Space, Sediments on Earth 2. Call for Proposals 3. Internships Available 4. Ruffe Treatment Debate Continues 5.
Plants produce ethylene as a natural product of respiration.
But too much ethylene causes them to wilt. Anderson devised a transformer that removed ethylene from the chamber air, turning it into carbon dioxide and making it usable again by the plants. Fittingly, Anderson's current Sea Grant project, which focuses on cleaning up sediments contaminated by toxic organic chemicals, uses technology similar to that used on the shuttle. The result is carbon dioxide. We're going to extract organic contaminants from the sediments and degrade them to CO2 .