Rapid start-up and performance of denitrifying granular sludge in an upflow sludge blanket (USB) reactor treating high concentration nitrite wastewater.

abstract：:Covalent immobilization of Aspergillus awamori NRRL 3112 was conducted onto modified polyacrylonitrile membrane with glutaraldehyde as a coupling agent. The polymer carrier was preliminarily modified in an aqueous solution of NaOH and 1,2-diaminoethane. The content of amino groups was determined to be 0.58 mgeq g(-1)....

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Yordanova G,Ivanova D,Godjevargova T,Krastanov A

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal degradation is emerging as a new powerful tool for the removal of potent neurotoxin pesticide, monocrotophos. Therefore, the present study is aimed at comparative characterization of monocrotophos degrading ability of three different fungal strains. Fungal strains were isolated from local agricultural soil by e...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Jain R,Garg V,Yadav D

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dissipation of atrazine, chlorpyrifos and iprodione in a biopurification system and changes in the microbial and some biological parameters influenced by the rhizosphere of Lolium perenne were studied in a column system packed with an organic biomixture. Three column depths were analyzed for residual pesticides, p...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Diez MC,Elgueta S,Rubilar O,Tortella GR,Schalchli H,Bornhardt C,Gallardo F

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial adhesion is an important factor that can influence biodegradation of poorly water soluble hydrocarbons such as phenanthrene. This study examined how adhesion to an oil-water interface, as mediated by 1-dodecanol, enhanced phenanthrene biodegradation by Pseudomonas fluorescens LP6a. Phenanthrene was dissolved...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Abbasnezhad H,Foght JM,Gray MR

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoterpenes are important renewable resources for the perfume and flavour industry but the pathways and enzymology of their degradation by microorganisms are not well documented. Until recently the acyclic monoterpene alcohols, (+)-camphor and the isomers of limonene were the only compounds for which significant sect...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Trudgill PW

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of anaerobic processes to treat low-strength wastewater has been increasing in recent years due to their favourable performance-costs balance. For optimal results, it is necessary to identify reactor configurations that are best suited for this kind of application. This paper reports on the comparative study c...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Sevilla-Espinosa S,Solórzano-Campo M,Bello-Mendoza R

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Digestion of cattle manure collected from a livestock farm together with bedding material (straw) has been studied under mesophilic and thermophilic conditions in batch reactors. The digestion was carried out for a prolonged period with the aim of evaluating the changes undergone by the organic matter. The mesophilic ...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Gómez X,Blanco D,Lobato A,Calleja A,Martínez-Núñez F,Martin-Villacorta J

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodococcus sp. BX2 degrades bensulfuron-methyl but not butachlor, and Acinetobacter sp. LYC-1 degrades butachlor but not bensulfuron-methyl. Functional strains were constructed through protoplast fusion of Rhodococcus sp. BX2 and Acinetobacter sp. LYC-1 to generate fusants with an improved ability to simultaneously d...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Feng L,Xiong M,Cheng X,Hou N,Li C

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hexazinone-degrading bacterial strains were isolated from soil by enrichment culture technique, and identified as Pseudomonas sp. and Enterobacter cloacap, respectively. The two purified isolates, designated as WFX-1 and WFX-2, could rapidly degrade hexazinone with half-lives of 3.08 and 2.95 days in mineral salts...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Wang X,Zhou S,Wang H,Yang S

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：:Bacterial yield prediction is critical for bioprocess optimization and modeling of natural biological systems. In previous work, an expanded thermodynamic true yield prediction model was developed through incorporating carbon balance and nitrogen balance along with electron balance and energy balance. In the present w...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Xiao J,VanBriesen JM

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biosorption is an effective means of removal of heavy metals from wastewater. In this work the biosorption behavior of Cladophora fascicularis was investigated as a function of pH, amount of biosorbent, initial Cu2+ concentration, temperature, and co-existing ions. Adsorption equilibria were well described by Langmuir...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Deng L,Zhu X,Wang X,Su Y,Su H

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：:Methanol-oxidizing bacteria may play an important role in the development and use of biological treatment systems for the removal of methanol from industrial effluents. Optimization of methanol degradation potential in such systems is contingent on availability of nutrients, such as nitrogen, in the most favorable for...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Babbitt CW,Lindner AS

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strip of tread compound cut from a truck tire was degraded only slightly when it was used as the sole growth substrate for a strain of Nocardia. On the contrary, its degradation was markedly enhanced by addition of a strip cut from a latex glove which the organism readily utilized as a growth substrate. When a glove...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Tsuchii A,Takeda K,Tokiwa Y

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：:The DNA sequence upstream of the dhlB gene encoding the haloalkanoic acid dehalogenase of Xanthobacter autotrophicus GJ10 was determined and contained an open reading frame, designated dhlC, which encoded a protein with a significant similarity with the family of Na(+)-dependent symport proteins. The dhlC gene was sub...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： van der Ploeg J,Janssen DB

更新日期：1995-09-01 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：:A field experiment, lasting 14 months, was carried out in order to assess the effect of organic amendment and lime addition on the bioavailability of heavy metals in contaminated soils. The experiment took place in a soil affected by acid, highly toxic pyritic waste from the Aznalcóllar mine (Seville, Spain) in April ...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Clemente R,Walker DJ,Roig A,Bernal MP

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas sp. strain WBC-3 utilizes para-nitrophenol (PNP) as a sole source of carbon, nitrogen and energy. PnpA (PNP 4-monooxygenase) and PnpB (para-benzoquinone reductase) were shown to be involved in the initial steps of PNP catabolism via hydroquinone. We demonstrated here that PnpA also catalyzed monooxygenatio...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Wei M,Zhang JJ,Liu H,Zhou NY

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：: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：:The ability of bacterial cultures to degrade diethanolamine under anoxic conditions with nitrate as an electron acceptor was investigated. A mixed culture capable of anaerobic degradation of diethanolamine was obtained from river sediments by enrichment culture. From this a single bacterial strain was isolated which c...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Knapp JS,Jenkey ND,Townsley CC

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study deals the biodegradation of the major color containing compounds extracted from distillery wastewater (DWW) by an aerobic bacterial consortium comprising Bacillus licheniformis (DQ79010), Bacillus sp. (DQ779011) and Alcaligenes sp. (DQ779012) and characterization of metabolic products. The degradation of co...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Bharagava RN,Chandra R

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fast development of ionic liquids as gaining more and more attention valuable chemicals will undoubtedly lead to environmental pollution. New formulations and application of ionic liquids may result in contamination in the presence of hydrophobic compounds, such as petroleum mixtures. We hypothesize that in the presen...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Chrzanowski L,Stasiewicz M,Owsianiak M,Szulc A,Piotrowska-Cyplik A,Olejnik-Schmidt AK,Wyrwas B

更新日期：2009-09-01 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 performance of a field-scale biotrickling filter (BTF) in the removal of waste gases containing low concentrations of mixed volatile organic compounds was evaluated. Results showed that acetone and methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) were more easily removed than toluene and styrene. The removal efficiency for acetone and M...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Li J,Ye G,Sun D,An T,Sun G,Liang S

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the presence of an alternate toxic compound (phenol) on the p-nitrophenol (PNP)-degrading activity of freely suspended and calcium alginate immobilized Nocardioides sp. NSP41 was investigated. In the single substrate experiments, when the concentration of phenol and PNP was increased to 1400 mg l(-1) and...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Cho YG,Rhee SK,Lee ST

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:Fuel and lubricating oil leaks produce an oily wastewater that creates an environmental problem for industries. Dissolved air flotation (DAF) has been successfully employed for the separation of oily contaminants. Collectors constitute an auxiliary tool in the DAF process that enhances the separation efficiency by fac...

journal_title：Biodegradation

authors： Silva EJ,Silva IA,Brasileiro PPF,Correa PF,Almeida DG,Rufino RD,Luna JM,Santos VA,Sarubbo LA

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00