Effects of biodegradable substrates and microbial concentration on the acclimation of microbes to acrylonitrile in aerobic submerged biofilter

• Published in: Water Science & Technology Vol. 38; no. 7; pp. 81 - 89
• Main Authors: Hu, Hong-Ying, Fujie, Koichi, Nozawa, Mamie, Makabe, Tsuyoshi, Urano, Kohei
• Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: New York NY Elsevier Ltd 01.01.1998; Oxford Pergamon Press; IWA Publishing
• Subjects: Acclimation; Acclimatization; Acrylonitrile; Applied sciences; Bacteria; Biodegradability; Biodegradation; Biofilters; Biological and medical sciences; Biological treatment of waters; Biological wastewater treatment; Biotechnology; Brevibacterium; Coexistence; Corynebacterium; Degradation; Ecological effects; Ecological monitoring; Ecological studies; Environment and pollution; Exact sciences and technology; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Industrial applications and implications. Economical aspects; Industrial wastewaters; Influents; kinetic study; microbial acclimation; microbial film; Microorganisms; Mineralization; Peptones; Pollution; population dynamics; Profile method (forecasting); Profiles; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; quinone profile; Quinones; Substrates; Wastewaters; Water treatment and pollution; microbial acclimation; quinone profile; Biological wastewater treatment; acrylonitrile; microbial film; kinetic study; population dynamics; Pseudomonadales; Aerobiosis; Acrylonitrile; Biodegradability; Brevibacteriaceae; Biological purification; Substrate; Corynebacterium; Industrial waste water; Brevibacterium; Bacteria; Pseudomonadaceae; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Actinomycetes; Corynebacteriaceae; Biofilter; Waste water purification
• ISBN: 0080433944; 9780080433943
• ISSN: 0273-1223; 1996-9732
• DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1223(98)00610-6

The effects of coexistence-of biodegradable substrates and microbial concentration on the acclimation of microbes to acrylonitrile (AN) in an aerobic submerged biofilter were investigated on the basis of kinetic and ecological studies. The experimental results show that the acclimation of microbial film to AN was promoted by a higher microbial concentration in the biofilter and by the coexistence of glucose and peptone in the influent. It was clarified that the upper limit of AN loading to the biofilter for the ultimate degradation, i.e., complete mineralization, of the influent AN was about 2.0–2.2 kg/m3. d. In addition, a new microbial quinone profile method was applied for the analysis of the microbial community change in the biofilter. The change in quinone profiles of the microbial film during the acclimation to AN suggested that Brevibacterium sp., Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Corynebacterium sp. could contribute to the degradation of AN in the aerobic biofilter.