The biodegradation of recalcitrant effluents from an olive mill by a white-rot fungus

1998 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro D’Annibale ◽  
Claudia Crestini* ◽  
Vittorio Vinciguerra ◽  
Giovanni Giovannozzi Sermanni
2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 364-372

Anaerobic digestion of olive-mill wastewater (OMW) was carried out in a continuously fed mode bioreactor. The bioreactor was operated at different hydraulic retention times (HRTs), using OMW, either raw or pre-treated with white-rot fungi. Two different kinds of feed were tested in this process, one which was thermally treated and subjected to sedimentation, in order to remove the solids contained and the other without any physicochemical treatment (raw OMW). Thermally pretreated OMW did not allow a stable operation even at an HRT of 30d. Further pretreatment of the OMW with a white-rot fungus for removal of the contained phenolics, allowed a stable operation at an HRT of 30 d. On the other hand, simple dilution of the raw wastewater, without any solids removal, lead to a stable operation at an HRT of 30d and was accompanied by higher production of biogas. The presence of the solids in the OMW proved to be a determining factor for the stability of the process and could be attributed to a possible adsorption on the solids of hydrophobic compounds, such as long-chain fatty acids that are toxic to methanogens.


Author(s):  
Mazen Salman ◽  
Nawaf Abu-Khalaf ◽  
Basima Abu Rumaileh ◽  
Mohamad Jawabreh ◽  
Ruba Abuamsha

2002 ◽  
Vol 36 (19) ◽  
pp. 4735-4744 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.S Fountoulakis ◽  
S.N Dokianakis ◽  
M.E Kornaros ◽  
G.G Aggelis ◽  
G Lyberatos

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-21
Author(s):  
A.Sangeetha A.Sangeetha ◽  
◽  
K.Thanigai K.Thanigai ◽  
Narasimhamurthy Narasimhamurthy ◽  
S.K.Nath S.K.Nath

2020 ◽  
Vol 93 (9) ◽  
pp. 289-292
Author(s):  
Yumi SHIMIZU ◽  
Shuma SATHO ◽  
Taro NAKAJIMA ◽  
Hiroaki KOUZAI ◽  
Kiminori SHIMIZU

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-44
Author(s):  
Nicoleta Mirela Marin ◽  
Olga Tiron ◽  
Luoana Florentina Pascu ◽  
Mihaela Costache ◽  
Mihai Nita Lazar ◽  
...  

This study investigates the synergistic effects of ion exchange and biodegradation methods to remove the Acid Blue 193 also called Gryfalan Navy Blue RL (GNB) dye from wastewater. Ion exchange studies were performed using a strongly basic anion exchange resin Amberlite IRA 400. The equilibrium was characterized by a kinetic and thermodynamic points of view, establishing that the sorption of the GNB dye was subject to the Freundlich isotherm model with R2 = 0.8710. Experimental results showed that the activated resin can removed up to 93.4% when the concentration of dye solution is 5.62�10-2 mM. The biodegradation of the GNB was induced by laccase, an enzyme isolated from white-rot fungus. It was also analyzed the role of pH and dye concentration on GNB biodegradation, so 5�10-2 mM dye had a maximum discoloration efficiency of 82.9% at pH of 4. The laccase showed a very fast and robust activity reaching in a few minutes a Km value of 2.2�10-1mM. In addition, increasing the GNB concentration up to 8�10-1 mM did not triggered a substrat inhibition effect on the laccase activity. Overall, in this study we proposed a mixt physicochemical and biological approach to enhance the GNB removal and biodegradability from the wastewaters and subsequently the environment.


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