Search results for "bioaugmentation"
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Application of Bioaugmentation to Improve Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment Efficiency
2019
Ecological harm and human health risks caused by environmental pollution with active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) nowadays is recognised as issue of growing concern. Widespread presence of human and veterinary API in aquatic environment clearly indicates persistence and low removal efficiency of these compounds at conventional pharmaceutical and municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTP). Bioaugmentation of activated sludge systems with specialized microorganisms could be a powerful and environmentally friendly tool to enhance the removal efficiency of recalcitrant API. Selection of inoculum strains, that have appropriate enzymatic pathways to metabolise complex molecules of API, belo…
Genetic potential, diversity and activity of an atrazine-degrading community enriched from a herbicide factory effluent
2008
Aims: To characterize an atrazine-degrading bacterial community enriched from the wastewater of a herbicide factory. Methods and Results: The community mineralized 81·4 ± 1·9% of [14C-ring]atrazine and 31·0 ± 1·8% of [14C-ethyl]atrazine within 6 days of batch cultivation in mineral salts medium containing atrazine as the sole nitrogen source. Degradation activity of the community towards different chloro- and methylthio-substituted s-triazine compounds was also demonstrated. Restriction analysis of amplified 16S rDNA revealed high diversity of bacterial populations forming the community, with Pseudomonas species dominating in the clone library. Atrazine-degrading genetic potential of the …
Preliminary insights about the treatment of contaminated marine sediments by means of bioslurry reactor: Process evaluation and microbiological chara…
2022
Abstract Contaminated marine sediments represent a critical threat towards human health and ecosystems, since they constitute a potential reservoir of toxic compounds release. In the present study, a bioslurry reactor was studied for the treatment of real marine sediments contaminated by petroleum hydrocarbons. The experimental campaign was divided in two periods: in the first period, microcosm trials were carried out to achieve useful indicators for biological hydrocarbon removal from sediments. The microcosm trials highlighted that the inoculum of halotolerant allochthonous bacteria provided the highest performance followed by autochthonous biomass. Based on the achieved results, in the s…
Selective enrichment of heterotrophic nitrifiers <em>Alcaligenaceae</em> and <em>Alcanivorax</em> spp. from industrial wastew…
2020
Removal of nitrogen from wastewaters (WW) represents a global problem. The low nitrification rate during WW treatment is often caused by ecotoxicity. This problem is attributed mostly to the industrial WW. Our study was focused on the testing of industrial WW and activated sludge (AS) with the aim to reveal the abundance of nitrifiers and increase their biomass, thus, providing the additional step, i.e., bioaugmentation, within the technological process of WW treatment. Plating of AS on the selective solidified media designated for the 1st and 2nd nitrification stages, resulted in the shift in bacterial community structure with dominated Alcaligenaceae and Alcanivorax for the 1st stage, and…
Étude de la biodégradation de l'herbicide acide 2.4-dichlorophénoxyacétique (2.4-D) dans des sols agricoles de la région de Constantine
2011
Les principaux facteurs conditionnant la biodégradation du 2,4-D dans trois sols agricoles algériens (45IB, 46BM et 47AA), notamment l'humidité et la température, ont été examinés. Les cinétiques de minéralisation de l'herbicide ont été déterminées par radiorespirométrie, qui consiste à piéger et estimer le 14C02 formé dans une solution de soude à l'aide d'un compteur à scintillation liquide. Les résultats obtenus confirment la présence de microorganismes dégradants le 2,4-D et la biodégradation de cet herbicide semble dépendre essentiellement des propriétés physicochimiques intrinsèques des sols notamment la teneur en argile et MgO. Le sol 46BM, caractérisé par de faibles quantités en sabl…