Biotransformation of a highly chlorinated PCB mixture in an activated sludge collected from a Membrane Biological Reactor (MBR) subjected to anaerobic digestion

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 186, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 2060-2067

  Bertin, Lorenzo ^a   Capodicasa, Serena ^a   Fedi, Stefano ^a   Zannoni, Davide ^a   Marchetti, Leonardo ^a,b   Fava, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b INCA Interuniversitary Consortium 'Chemistry for the Environment' ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; Anaerobic digestion; Biodegradation; Eubacteria; Methanogens; PCB

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; EUBACTERIA; HYDROGENOTROPHIC METHANOGENS; MEMBRANE BIOLOGICAL REACTORS; MESOPHILIC; METHANOGENIC CONDITION; PCB; YEAST EXTRACTS;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOGAS; DECHLORINATION; DECONTAMINATION; DEGRADATION; METHANOGENS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PILOT PLANTS; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SLUDGE DIGESTION;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREACTOR; BIOTRANSFORMATION; DECHLORINATION; MEMBRANE; METHANOGENESIS; MICROCOSM; PCB;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; DECHLORINATION; DEPLETION; EUBACTERIACEAE; MEMBRANE BIOLOGICAL REACTOR; MEMBRANE REACTOR; METHANOCORPUSCULUM; METHANOGEN; METHANOMICROBIALES; METHANOSARCINALES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

ALGORITHMS; ANAEROBIOSIS; BIOREACTORS; DNA; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; PILOT PROJECTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79751527861     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2010.12.131     Document Type: Article

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