Determination of biodegradability of phenolic compounds, characteristic to wastewater of the oil-shale chemical industry, on activated sludge by oxygen uptake measurement

Environmental Technology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 329-339

  Lepik, Riina ^a   Tenno, Toomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Biodegradation; Inhibition; O cresol; P cresol; Phenol; Substrate interaction

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; ENZYME INHIBITION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIXTURES; OIL SHALE; OXYGEN; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHENOLS; SHALE; SHALE OIL; SUBSTRATES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BIO-OXIDATION; ENHANCING EFFECT; ESTONIA; INHIBITION EFFECT; INHIBITORY EFFECT; INTERACTION PARAMETERS; O-CRESOL; OXYGEN UPTAKE; P-CRESOL; PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS; PHENOLIC WASTEWATERS; SUBSTRATE CONCENTRATIONS; SUBSTRATE INTERACTION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

BIODEGRADATION;

CRESOL; OXYGEN; PHENOL DERIVATIVE;

ACCLIMATION; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); INHIBITION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OIL SHALE; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; PHENOLIC COMPOUND; SUBSTRATE; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADABILITY; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREACTOR; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); INDUSTRIAL WASTE; INHIBITION KINETICS; MEASUREMENT; MICHAELIS MENTEN KINETICS; OIL SHALE; OXIDATION; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; RESPIROMETRY; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

ESTONIA;

EID: 84859710422     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2011.572923     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Priority pollutants, Code of Federal Regulations, Title 40, Chapter 1, Part 423, Appendix A, US EPA, Washington, DC, 1996.
2. Minister of Environment of Estonia, Program concerning reduction of discharges of phenols into the water bodies until 2014, Order No 1042 from 26 July 2010 (In Estonian).
3. Estonian Environment Information Centre, State of Environment in Estonia-on the Threshold of XII Century Estonian Environmental Review 2009.
4. Estonian Environmental Information Centre, State of Environment in Estonia-on the Threshold of XXI Century, Tallinn, Estonia, 2001.
5. J.W. Moore and S. Ramamoorthy, Organic Chemicals in Natural Waters: Applied Monitoring and Impact Assessment, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1984.
6. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), Toxicological profile for phenol, US Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, GA, 2008.
7. US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Toxicological review of phenol. CAS No 108-95-2. In support of summary information on the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), US EPA, Washington, DC, 2002.
8. World Health Organization (WHO), Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality, 3rd ed., Volume 1: Recommendations, WHO, Geneva, 2008.
9. H. Spanjers, G. Olsson, and A. Klapwijk, Determining influent short-term biochemical oxygen demand by combined respirometry and estimation,Water Sci. Technol. 28 (11-12) (1993), pp. 401-414.
10. H. Spanjers, G. Olsson, and A. Klapwijk, Determining shortterm biochemical oxygen demand and respiration rate in an aeration tank by using respirometry and estimation, Water Res. 28 (1994), pp. 1571-1583.
11. H. Brouwer, A. Klapwijk, and K.J. Keesman, Modelling and control of activated sludge plants on the basis of respirometry, Water Sci. Technol. 30 (4) (1994), pp. 265-274.
12. C.P.L. Grady, J.S. Dang, D.M. Harvey, A. Jobbagy, and X.-L. Wang, Determination of biodegradation kinetics through use of electrolytic respirometry,Water Sci. Technol. 21 (8-9) (1989), pp. 957-968.
13. S.C. Brown, C.P.L. Grady, and H.H. Tabak, Biodegradation kinetics of substituted phenolics: Demonstration of a protocol based on electrolytic respirometry,Water Res. 24 (1990), pp. 853-861.
14. P.A. Vanrolleghem, Z. Kong, G. Rombouts, and W. Verstraete, An on-line respirographic biosensor for the characterisation of load and toxicity of wastewaters, J. Chem. Technol. Biotechnol. 59 (1994), pp. 321-333.
15. M. Ince, F. Yildiz, G. Onkal Engin, S.N. Engin, and B. Keskinler, Respirometric kinetic parameter calculations of a batch jet loop bioreactor treating leachate and oxygen uptake rate estimation by DTM, J. Hazard. Mater. 153 (2008), pp. 991-998.
16. K. Orupõld, A. Maširin, and T. Tenno, Estimation of biodegradation parameters of phenolic compounds on activated sludge by respirometry, Chemosphere 44 (2001), pp. 1273-1280.
17. J.S. Čech, J. Chudoba, and P. Grau, Determination of kinetic constants of activated sludge microorganisms, Water Sci. Technol. 17 (2-3) (1984), pp. 259-272.
18. T.G. Ellis, D.S. Barbeau, B.F. Smets, and C.P.L. Grady, Respirometric technique for determination of extant kinetic parameters describing biodegradation,Water Environ. Res. 68 (1996), pp. 917-926.
19. R. Lepik, K. Orupõld, S. Viggor, and T. Tenno, Biodegradability of methyl- and hydroxyphenols by activated sludge, Oil Shale 20 (2003), pp. 99-112.
20. T. Palmer, Understanding Enzymes, 4th ed., Prentice Hall/ Ellis Horwood London, 1995.
21. W. Sokol, Oxidation of an inhibitory substrate by washed cells (oxidation of phenol by Pseudomonas putida), Biotechnol. Bioeng. 30 (1987), pp. 921-927.
22. J.C. Spain and D.T. Gibson, Oxidation of substituted phenols by Pseudomonas putida F1 and Pseudomonas sp. JS6, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 54 (1988), pp. 1399-1404.
23. M.R. Smith, M. Ewing, and C. Ratledge, The interactions of various aromatic substrates degraded by Pseudomonas sp. NCIB 10643: Synergistic inhibition of growth by two compounds that serve as growth substrates, Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 34 (1991), pp. 536-538.
24. D. Millette, J.F. Barker, Y. Comeau, B.J. Butler, E.O. Frind, B. Clément, and R. Samson, Substrate interaction during aerobic biodegradation of creosote-related compounds: A factorial batch experiment, Environ. Sci. Technol. 29 (1995), pp. 1944-1952.
25. K.F. Reardon, D.C. Mosteller, and J.D.B. Rogers, Biodegradation kinetics of benzene, toluene and phenol as single and mixed substrates for Pseudomonas putida F1, Biotechnol. Bioeng. 69 (2000), pp. 385-400.
26. H. Yoon, G. Klinzing, and H.W. Blanch, Competition for mixed substrates by microbial populations, Biotechnol. Bioeng. 19 (1977), pp. 1193-1210.
27. T. Abu Hamed, E. Bayraktar, T. Mehmetoglu, and Ü. Mehmetoglu, Kinetics model for growth of Pseudomonas putida F1 during benzene, toluene and phenol biodegradation, Process Biochem. 39 (2004), pp. 983-988.
28. P. Saravanan, K. Pakshirajan, and P. Saha, Kinetics of phenol and m-cresol biodegradation by an indigenous mixed microbial culture isolated from a sewage treatment plant, J. Environ. Sci. 20 (2008), pp. 1508-1513.
29. D.B. Hibbert and J.J. Gooding, Data Analysis for Chemistry: An Introductory Guide for Students and Laboratory Scientists, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006.
30. n). Part 1: Dilution and seeding method with allylthiourea addition, ISO, Geneva, 2003.
31. F.P. Healey, Slope of the Monod equation as an indicator of advantage in nutrient competition, Microb. Ecol. 5 (1980), pp. 281-286.
32. B.S. Magbanua, P.A. Hoover, P.J. Campbell, and A.R. Bowers, The effect of cosubstrates on phenol degradation kinetics, Water Sci. Technol. 30 (9) (1994), pp. 67-77.
33. G.F. Nakhla and I.M. Al-Harazin, Simplified analysis of biodegradation kinetics of phenolic compounds by heterogeneous cultures, Environ. Technol. 14 (1993), pp. 751-760.
34. J. Páca and G.G.S. Martius, Inhibition concentration of phenolic substances under different cultivation conditions. Part I: Phenol oxidation by mixed microbial population in a model system, Acta Hydrochim. Hydrobiol. 24 (1996), pp. 127-131.
35. K. Watanabe, S. Hino, K. Onodera, K. Shin-Ichi, and N. Takahashi, Diversity in kinetics of bacterial phenoloxygenating activity, J. Ferment. Bioeng. 81 (1996), pp. 560-563.
36. D.H. Hutchinson and C.W. Robinson, Kinetics of the simultaneous batch degradation of p-cresol and phenol by Pseudomonas putida, Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 29 (1988), pp. 599-604.
37. L.B.M. Ellis, D. Roe, and L.P. Wackett, The University of Minnesota biocatalysis/biodegradation database: The first decade, Nucleic Acids Res. 34 (2006), pp. D517-D521.
38. G. Vazquez-Rodriguez, F. Palluy, G. Goma, and J.L. Rols, Procedures in ready biodegradability testing: Effects of the inoculation and the monitored parameter, Environ. Technol. 20 (1999), pp. 301-308.
39. G. Vazquez-Rodriguez, G. Goma, and J.L. Rols, Activated sludge as inoculum for ready biodegradability testing: Effect of source, Environ. Technol. 24 (2003), pp. 979-987.
40. D.H. Pieper, K. Stadler-Fritzsche, H.J. Knackmuss, and K.N. Timmis, Formation of dimethylmuconolactones from dimethylphenols by Alcaligenes eutrophus JMP 134, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 61 (1995), pp. 2159-2165.
41. W. Schönborn, Biotechnology. Volume 8: Microbial Degradations, VCH, Weinheim, 1986.
42. R. Müller, W.-D. Deckwer, and V. Hecht, Degradation of chloro- and methyl-substituted benzoic acids by a genetically modified microorganism, Biotechnol. Bioeng. 51 (1996), pp. 528-537.
43. E. Heinaru, S. Viggor, E. Vedler, J. Truu, M. Merimaa, and A. Heinaru, Reversible accumulation of p-hydroxybenzoate and catechol determines the sequential decomposition of phenolic compounds in mixed substrate cultivations in pseudomonads, FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 37 (2001), pp. 79-89.
44. S. Viggor, E. Heinaru, J. Loponen, M. Merimaa, T. Tenno, and A. Heinaru, Biodegradation of dimethylphenols by bacteria with different ring-cleavage pathways of phenolic compounds, Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res. Special Issue 1 (2002), pp. 19-26.
45. F. Ampe and N.D. Lindley, Flux limitations in the ortho pathway of benzoate degradation of Alcaligenes eutrophus: Metabolite overflow and induction of the meta pathway at high substrate concentrations, Microbiology 142 (1996), pp. 1807-1817.
46. M.P. Kolomytseva, B.P. Baskunov, and L.A. Golovleva, Intradiol pathway of para-cresol conversion by Rhodococcus opacus 1CP, Biotechnol. J. 2 (2007), pp. 886-893.
47. H.-J. Knackmuss, M. Hellwig, H. Lackner, and W. Otting, Cometabolism of 3-methylbenzoate and methylcatechols by a chlorobenzoate utilizing Pseudomonas: Accumulation of (+)-2,5-dihydro-4-methyl- and (+)-2,5-dihydro-2-methyl-5- oxo-furan-2-acetic acid, Eur. J. Appl. Microbiol. 2 (1976), pp. 267-276.
48. R.C. Bayly, S. Dagley, and D.T. Gibson, The metabolism of cresols by species of Pseudomonas, Biochem. J. 101 (1966), pp. 293-301.
49. C.P.L. Grady, G.T. Daigger, and H.C. Lim, Biological Wastewater Treatment, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1999.
50. V.H. Edwards, The influence of high substrate concentration on microbial kinetics, Biotechnol. Bioeng. 12 (1970), pp. 679-712.
51. D. Léonard and N.D. Lindley, Growth of Ralstonia eutropha on inhibitory concentrations of phenol: Diminished growth can be attributed to hydrophobic perturbation of phenol hydroxylase activity, Enzyme Microb. Technol. 25 (1999), pp. 271-277.
52. A. Fialová, A. Čejková, J. Masák, and V. Jirku̇, Comparison of yeast ( Candida maltosa) and bacterial ( Rhodococcus erythropolis) phenol hydroxylase activity and its properties in the phenolic compounds biodegradation, Commun. Agric. Appl. Biol. Sci. 68 (2003), pp. 155-158.
53. R.G. Riefler, D.P. Ahlfeld, and B.F. Smets, Respirometric assay for biofilm kinetics estimation: Parameter identifiability and retrievability, Biotechnol. Bioeng. 57 (1998), pp. 35-45.
54. A. Tzoris, D. Cane, P. Maynard, and E.A.H. Hall, Tuning the parameters for fast respirometry, Anal. Chim. Acta 460 (2002), pp. 257-270.