Stoichiometry of the aerobic biodegradation of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (MSW).

abstract：:A Gram-negative bacterium was isolated from river sediment which was able to grow with nitrilotriacetic acid as a combined carbon, nitrogen and energy source in the absence of molecular oxygen using nitrate as the terminal electron acceptor. Batch growth parameters and mass balances are reported for growth under both ...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Wanner U,Kemmler J,Weilenmann HU,Egli T,el-Banna T,Auling G

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathway of anaerobic acetone degradation by the denitrifying bacterial strain BunN was studied by enzyme measurements in extracts of anaerobic acetone-grown cells. An ADP- and MgCl2-dependent decarboxylation of acetoacetate was detected which could not be found in cell-free extracts of acetate-grown cells. It is c...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Platen H,Schink B

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compounds of interest in this work are methanethiol (MeSH), dimethyl sulfide (Me2S), dimethyl polysulfides (Me2Sx) and carbon disulfide (CS2) since these volatiles have been identified as predominant odorants in the emission of a wide range of activities in the bio-industry (e.g. aerobic waste water treatment plants, ...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Smet E,Van Langenhove H

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel bacterial strain capable of degrading the pyrethroid pesticide fenpropathrin was isolated from mixed wastewater and sludge samples. Phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rDNA sequence revealed that the organism belongs to the genus Clostridium. The organism can co-metabolically transform fenpropathrin at 100 mg l(-...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Zhang S,Yin L,Liu Y,Zhang D,Luo X,Cheng J,Cheng F,Dai J

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the current study, indigenous bacterial isolates Bacillus subtilis VITSUKMW1 and Escherichia coli VITSUKMW3 from a chromite mine were adapted to 100 mg L(-1) of Cr(VI). The phase contrast and scanning electron microscopic images showed increase in the length of adapted E. coli cells and chain formation in case of a...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Samuel J,Paul ML,Ravishankar H,Mathur A,Saha DP,Natarajan C,Mukherjee A

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reductive dechlorination is an advantageous process to microorganisms under anaerobic conditions because it is an electron sink, thereby allowing reoxidation of metabolic intermediates. In some organisms this has been demonstrated to support growth. Many chlorinated compounds have now been shown to be reductively dech...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Tiedje JM,Quensen JF 3rd,Chee-Sanford J,Schimel JP,Boyd SA

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contaminated soils, efficiency of natural attenuation or engineered bioremediation largely depends on biodegradation capacities of the local microflorae. In the present study, the biodegradation capacities of various microflorae towards diesel oil were determined in laboratory conditions. Microflorae were collected...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Penet S,Vendeuvre C,Bertoncini F,Marchal R,Monot F

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In biological nitrogen removal, application of the autotrophic anammox process is gaining ground worldwide. Although this field has been widely researched in last years, some aspects as the accelerating effect of putative intermediates (mainly N₂H₄ and NH₂OH) need more specific investigation. In the current study, exp...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Zekker I,Kroon K,Rikmann E,Tenno T,Tomingas M,Vabamäe P,Vlaeminck SE,Tenno T

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impacts of feeding ratio and loading rate on the microbial community during co-digestion of grass silage with cow manure in an anaerobic laboratory continuously stirred tank reactor were investigated by 16S rRNA gene-based fingerprints. The microbial community remained stable when the reactor was fed with cow manu...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Wang H,Tolvanen K,Lehtomäki A,Puhakka J,Rintala J

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal cyanides are significant contaminants of many soils found at the site of former industrial activity. In this study we isolated bacteria capable of degrading ferric ferrocyanide and K2Ni(CN)4. One of these bacteria a Rhodococcus spp. was subsequently used to bioaugment a minimal medium broth, spiked with K2Ni(CN)...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Baxter J,Cummings SP

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzoyl coenzyme A reductase (BCR) catalyzes dearomatization of benzoyl coenzyme A (benzoyl-CoA), which is the central step in the anaerobic degradative pathways for a variety of aromatic compounds. This study developed a PCR method for the detection and quantification of BCR genes in bacterial strains and environment...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Hosoda A,Kasai Y,Hamamura N,Takahata Y,Watanabe K

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for aeration of microcosms during mineralization of 14C-labeled compounds in high oxygen demand environments was assessed using active compost-soil mixtures as the model system. Rapid mineralization of 14C-hexadecane occurred in continuously aerated microcosms while no mineralization occurred in unaerated mic...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Haderlein A,Bonin Aly-Hassan MC,Legros R,Ramsay BA

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of oil sands process-affected water (OSPW) using biodegradation has the potential to be an environmentally sound approach for tailings water reclamation. This process is both economical and efficient, however, the recalcitrance of some OSPW constituents, such as naphthenic acids (NAs), require the pre-treatm...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Islam MS,Dong T,McPhedran KN,Sheng Z,Zhang Y,Liu Y,Gamal El-Din M

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological methane oxidation is carried out by methanotrophs, bacteria that utilize methane as their sole carbon and energy source. The enzyme they contain that is responsible for methane oxidation is methane monooxygenase, the most well studied being the soluble methane monooxygenase enzyme complexes from Methylococc...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Murrell JC

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichloroethylene (TCE) is extensively used in commercial applications, despite its risk to human health via soil and groundwater contamination. The stability of TCE, which is a useful characteristic for commercial application, makes it difficult to remove it from the environment. Numerous studies have demonstrated th...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Liu J,Amemiya T,Chang Q,Qian Y,Itoh K

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chitosanase and a protease were purified from the culture supernatant of Serratia sp. TKU016 with shrimp shell as the sole carbon/nitrogen source. The molecular masses of the chitosanase and protease determined by SDS-PAGE were approximately 65 and 53 kDa, respectively. The chitosanase was inhibited completely by Mn...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Wang SL,Chang TJ,Liang TW

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A continuous-flow column study was conducted to evaluate the long-term effects of in situ biostimulation on the biodegradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in soil from a manufactured gas plant site. Simulated groundwater amended with oxygen and inorganic nutrients was introduced into one column, while a...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Richardson SD,Jones MD,Singleton DR,Aitken MD

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenanthrene mineralization rates were found to vary widely among four soils; differences in soil nutrient levels was one hypothesis to explain this variation. To test this hypothesis, phenanthrene mineralization rates were measured in these soils with, and without, added nitrogen and phosphorus. Mineralization rates ...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Johnson CR,Scow KM

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethanol is a renewable biofuel, and it can be produced from lignocellulosic biomass. The biomass is usually converted to hydrolysates that consist of sugar and sugar derivatives, such as furfural. Yeast ferments sugar to ethanol, but furfural higher than 3 mM is inhibitory. It can take several days for yeast cells to ...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Li Q,Metthew Lam LK,Xun L

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Field experiments were conducted to assess the potential for anaerobic biostimulation to enhance BTEX biodegradation under fermentative methanogenic conditions in groundwater impacted by a biodiesel blend (B20, consisting of 20 % v/v biodiesel and 80 % v/v diesel). B20 (100 L) was released at each of two plots through...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Ramos DT,da Silva ML,Chiaranda HS,Alvarez PJ,Corseuil HX

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Monte Carlo model was developed to characterize the molecular composition of polychlorinated alkane mixtures. The model is based upon a simulation of the free-radical chlorination process by which polychlorinated alkane mixtures are produced industrially from n-alkanes. In the model, the free-radical chlorination re...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Jensen SR,Brown WA,Heath E,Cooper DG

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two stage statistical design was used to optimize xylanase production from Bacillus pumilus ASH under solid-state fermentation. Initially, Plackett-Burman designing (PB) was used for the selection of crucial production parameters. Peptone, yeast extract, incubation time, moisture level and pH were found to be the cruc...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Garg G,Mahajan R,Kaur A,Sharma J

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, Fourier Transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) along with thermogravimetric analysis together with mass spectrometry (TG-MS analysis) were employed to study the organic matter transformation attained under anaerobic digestion of slaughterhouse waste and to establish the stability of the digestates obtai...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Cuetos MJ,Gómez X,Otero M,Morán A

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of biocides is a traditional method of controlling biodecay of outdoor cultural heritage. Chlorophyll degradation to phaeopigments is used to test the biocidal efficacy of the antimicrobial agents. In the present study, the usefulness of color measurements in estimating chlorophyll degradation was inve...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Sanmartín P,Villa F,Silva B,Cappitelli F,Prieto B

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A biomass adapted to degrade toluene and xylenes in mixture was grown in a batch reactor with substrates supplied by pulses. The inhibition of biomass growth in the course of substrate degradation was investigated. The maximal biomass concentration of 7 g l-1 was obtained using 150 microliters of toluene and 15 microl...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： León E,Seignez C,Adler N,Peringer P

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that the filamentous fungus, Penicillium janthinellum SFU403 (SFU403) oxidizes pyrene to pyrene 1,6- and 1,8-quinones and that the level of pyrenequinones (PQs) subsequently declines suggesting that PQs are not terminal metabolites. The purpose of this study was to determine the fate of PQs in...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Launen LA,Pinto LJ,Percival PW,Lam SF,Moore MM

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms occurring in a photolytic circulating-bed biofilm reactor (PCBBR) treating 2,4,6-trichlorophenol (TCP) were investigated using batch experiments following three protocols: photodegradation alone (P), biodegradation alone (B), and intimately coupled photodegradation and biodegradation (P&B). Initially, t...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Zhang Y,Pu X,Fang M,Zhu J,Chen L,Rittmann BE

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent study on the degradation of N,N'-dibutylurea (DBU), a breakdown product of benomyl [methyl 1-(butylcarbamoyl)-2-benzimidazole carbamate], the active ingredient in Benlate fungicides, degradation half-lives of 1.4-46.5 days were observed across several soils incubated at various combinations of soil moistur...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Bischoff M,Lee LS,Turco RF

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosorption equilibrium isotherms of Ni(II) onto marine brown algae Lobophora variegata, which was chemically-modified by CaCl(2) were studied and modeled. To predict the biosorption isotherms and to determine the characteristic parameters for process design, twenty-three one-, two-, three-, four- and five-paramet...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Basha S,Jaiswar S,Jha B

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyridine and pyridine based products are of major concern as environmental pollutants due to their recalcitrant, persistent, toxic and teratogenic nature. In this study, we describe biodegradation of pyridine by an isolated consortium/strain under aerobic condition. Batch experiment results reveal that at lower initia...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Lodha B,Bhadane R,Patel B,Killedar D

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00