Biological treatment of refinery spent caustics under halo-alkaline conditions

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 102, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 7257-7264

  de Graaff, Marco ^a,b   Bijmans, Martijn F M ^b   Abbas, Ben ^c   Euverink, Gert J W ^b   Muyzer, Gerard ^c   Janssen, Albert J H ^a,d  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE WATER TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d E and P   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Benzene; Haloalkalipilic; Spent caustics; Sulfide oxidation; Thioalkalivibrio

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC CONDITION; ALKALINE WASTES; BENZENE CONCENTRATION; BENZENE REMOVAL; BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; HALOALKALIPHILIC; HALOALKALIPILIC; HALOMONAS; HETEROTROPHIC BACTERIAS; LOADING RATE; MARINOBACTER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY ANALYSIS; SPENT CAUSTIC; STEADY STATE; STRIPPING EFFICIENCY; SULFIDE OXIDATION; SULFIDE-OXIDIZING BACTERIA; THIOALKALIVIBRIO;

ALKALINITY; BACTERIOLOGY; BENZENE; BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; BIODEGRADATION; REFINING; SODIUM;

BACTERIA;

ALKALINE EARTH METAL; BENZENE; RNA 16S; SULFIDE;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BENZENE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREACTOR; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; RESEARCH WORK; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE SEQUENCE; HALOMONAS; MARINOBACTER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALKALIES; BACTERIA; BENZENE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; CAUSTICS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE LIBRARY; HALOGENS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOLUTIONS; SULFATES; SULFIDES; TIME FACTORS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

HALOMONAS; IDIOMARINA; MARINOBACTER; THIOALKALIVIBRIO;

EID: 79958254264     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.04.095     Document Type: Article

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