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Ríos F, Caparrós-Salvador F, Lechuga M, Fernández-Serrano M. Complete biodegradability assessment of polyoxyethylene glycerol ester non-ionic surfactant: Aerobic, anaerobic, combined biodegradation and inhibitory effects. WATER RESEARCH 2024; 248:120857. [PMID: 37988809 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2023.120857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2023] [Revised: 10/23/2023] [Accepted: 11/10/2023] [Indexed: 11/23/2023]
Abstract
Aerobic and anaerobic biodegradability have become one of the most relevant characteristics for all contaminants. This is especially important in case of surfactants, which are discharged in wastewater treatment plants or directly into the aquatic bodies. The aim of this study is the integral assessment of the biodegradability of the non-ionic surfactant polyoxyethylene glycerol ester PGE-OE17. The aerobic and anaerobic biodegradation of PGE-OE17 was evaluated at different initial surfactant concentrations, and the evolution of the toxicity of the surfactant and its by-products was followed during the aerobic and anaerobic processes using bacteria Vibrio fischeri. PGE-OE17 was not completely biodegradable neither aerobically nor anaerobically, and the increase in the initial surfactant concentration had a negative effect in the biodegradation. Toxicity of the surfactant solutions and degradation by-products had a first increase followed by a gradual decrease during both tests, revealing that toxic substances released can harm the microorganisms and therefore hinder the biodegradation. Additionally, combined aerobic-anaerobic biodegradation tests were performed, consisting in a first aerobic treatment of different duration and initial concentration, followed by a complete anaerobic treatment. Results showed that a balance between aerobic and anaerobic biodegradation duration can maximize the biodegradation rates in comparison with only aerobic or anaerobic tests.
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- Francisco Ríos
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, Campus Fuentenueva s/n. 18071 Granada, Spain.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, Campus Fuentenueva s/n. 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, Campus Fuentenueva s/n. 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, Campus Fuentenueva s/n. 18071 Granada, Spain
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Araújo S, Damianovic M, Foresti E, Florencio L, Kato MT, Gavazza S. Biological treatment of real textile wastewater containing sulphate, salinity, and surfactant through an anaerobic-aerobic system. WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY : A JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION ON WATER POLLUTION RESEARCH 2022; 85:2882-2898. [PMID: 35638794 DOI: 10.2166/wst.2022.141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Real textile wastewater containing high salinity (up to 12.6 g·kg-1) and surfactant (up to 5.9 mg·L-1 of linear alkylbenzene sulfonate - LAS) was submitted to biological treatment for colour (up to 652 mg Pt-Co·L-1) and sulphate (up to 1,568.6 mg SO4-2·L-1) removal. The influence of ethanol and molasses supplementation was firstly evaluated in anaerobic batch reactors for the removal of dyes and sulphate. Subsequently, aiming to remove aromatic amines (dye degradation by-products), an anaerobic-aerobic continuous system supplemented with molasses was applied. Supplementation had no influence on colour removal (maximum efficiencies around 70%), while it improved sulphate reduction (23% without supplementation against 87% with supplementation), and conferred robustness to the reactors, which recovered quickly after higher salinity impact. The aerobic reactor removed aromatic amines when the level of surfactants was lower than 1.0 mg LAS·L-1, but the performance of the system was hindered when the concentration was increased to 5.9 mg LAS·L-1. Findings suggest that the supplementation of an easily biodegradable organic matter might be a strategy to overcome wastewater fluctuation in composition.
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- Sofia Araújo
- Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Ambiental, Laboratório de Saneamento Ambiental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil E-mail:
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos, Departamento de Hidráulica e Saneamento, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos, Departamento de Hidráulica e Saneamento, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
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- Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Ambiental, Laboratório de Saneamento Ambiental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil E-mail:
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- Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Ambiental, Laboratório de Saneamento Ambiental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil E-mail:
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- Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Ambiental, Laboratório de Saneamento Ambiental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil E-mail:
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Martínez RA, Fechner DC, Delfino MR, Pellerano RG, Goicoechea HC. Rapid determination of three textile surfactants in environmental samples by modeling excitation-emission second-order data with multi-way calibration methods. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2022; 29:25869-25880. [PMID: 34850349 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-17660-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2021] [Accepted: 11/16/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The textile industry is an important potential source of environmental pollution due to the use of chemical products. Dyes, hydrolyzed dyes, and surfactants, among others, are chemical compounds present in wastewater of textile plant. Moreover, the anionic surfactants have toxic effects for various aquatic organisms even in low concentrations. The methodologies investigated to quantify surfactants, in general, consume a lot of analysis time and frequently use toxic or environmentally objectionable reagents. For these reasons, the objective of this work was to develop a quick and simple method to quantify surfactants without the use of expensive reagents and equipment, avoiding extraction and preconcentration stages. The proposed method is based on fluorescent spectroscopy measurements for the acquisition of second-order data in excitation-emission matrices and multivariate calibration techniques applied to the data. The unfolded partial least squares combined to residual bilinearization (U-PLS/RBL) algorithm was better than parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC). U-PLS/RBL accurately quantified alkylnonylphenolethoxylated (APEO), dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid (ADBS), and 2-phenoxy-ethoxylated fatty alcohol (AGFE) surfactants. The chemometric model obtained good analytical figures of merit: REP% between 5 and 13 and LOQ between 0.45 and 2.77 μg mL-1. This methodology had no significant difference compared with results obtained by a HPLC-FD reference technique, in addition with a considerable reduction in analysis time, reagent consumption, and therefore lower cost. For environmental applications, APEO, ADBS, and AGFE were quantify in textile wastewater treatment and in the receiving water body. The concentrations varied from 8.73 to 73.94 μg mL-1 in the textile wastewater and were not detected in the receiving water body.
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- Ramón A Martínez
- Dpto. de Química, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales y Agrimensura, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Av. Libertad 5460, 3400, Corrientes, Argentina.
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- Instituto de Química Básica y Aplicada del Nordeste Argentino (IQUIBA-NEA), UNNE-CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales y Agrimensura, Av. Libertad 5400, 3400, Corrientes, Argentina
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- Dpto. de Química, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales y Agrimensura, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Av. Libertad 5460, 3400, Corrientes, Argentina
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- Instituto de Química Básica y Aplicada del Nordeste Argentino (IQUIBA-NEA), UNNE-CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales y Agrimensura, Av. Libertad 5400, 3400, Corrientes, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Desarrollo Analítico y Quimiometría (LADAQ), Catedra de Química Analítica I, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Ciudad Universitaria, S300ZAA, Santa Fe, Argentina
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Kulapina EG, Makarova NM. Potentiometric Sensors Based on Various Active Components for the Multisensor Determination of Anionic and Nonionic Surfactants. JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 2022. [DOI: 10.1134/s1061934822020071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Dufour A, Thiébaut D, Loriau M, Ligiero L, Vial J. Corona charged aerosol detector non-uniform response factors of purified alcohol ethoxylated homologues using liquid chromatography. J Chromatogr A 2020; 1627:461402. [PMID: 32823107 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2020.461402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2020] [Revised: 07/02/2020] [Accepted: 07/11/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Surfactants are used in various applications: cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, environmental, etc. Many of these compounds are polydisperse, and because of this intrinsic polydispersity, it is essential to have a universal detector with a uniform response to quantify them in a simple way. Indeed, Charged Aerosol Detector (CAD) was presented as a universal detector with a uniform response. Thus, in the present study, the CAD response, in a High-Performance Liquid Chromatography - CAD configuration (HPLCCAD), was evaluated using purified alcohol ethoxylated surfactants. A semi-preparative liquid chromatography step using a Hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC) bare silica column (150 mm, 4.6 mm, 2.6 µm) was implemented to prepare eleven homologues of BrijC10, a nonionic surfactant. These homologues differed only by the number of ethylene oxide units. BrijC10 homologues were analyzed by HPLCCAD, using a HILIC bare silica column (150 mm, 2.1 mm, 2.6 µm) to determine the HPLCCAD response factors of purified homologues. From the calibration curves (from 100 to 500 mg.kg-1), their response factors were estimated: differences in response factors were observed and a maximum difference in response factors of 3.6 was obtained. Thus, it could be concluded that CAD hyphenated to HILIC separation did not present a uniform response for this homologue's distribution.
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- Alizée Dufour
- Total S.A. Exploration & Production Lacq Research Center (PERL), 64170 Lacq, France; LSABM, UMR CBI 8231, ESPCI Paris PSL Research University CNRS, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France.
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- LSABM, UMR CBI 8231, ESPCI Paris PSL Research University CNRS, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France
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- Total S.A. Exploration & Production Lacq Research Center (PERL), 64170 Lacq, France
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- Total S.A. Exploration & Production Lacq Research Center (PERL), 64170 Lacq, France
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- LSABM, UMR CBI 8231, ESPCI Paris PSL Research University CNRS, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France
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Dufour A, Thiébaut D, Ligiero L, Loriau M, Vial J. Chromatographic behavior and characterization of polydisperse surfactants using Ultra-High-Performance Liquid Chromatography hyphenated to High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry. J Chromatogr A 2020; 1614:460731. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2019.460731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2019] [Revised: 11/19/2019] [Accepted: 11/23/2019] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Kruszelnicka I, Ginter-Kramarczyk D, Wyrwas B, Idkowiak J. Evaluation of surfactant removal efficiency in selected domestic wastewater treatment plants in Poland. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCE & ENGINEERING 2019; 17:1257-1264. [PMID: 32030190 PMCID: PMC6985340 DOI: 10.1007/s40201-019-00387-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2018] [Accepted: 06/17/2019] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the work of a two types of household sewage treatment plant: wetland wastewater treatment plant (ORS type) and treatment plant of SBR type (SBR-K-6 type). Physicochemical analyses of selected pollution indices (BOD5, COD, total suspension, total phosphorus) and surfactants were carried out and compared with currently applicable values of such indexes according to the Regulation of the Minister of the Environment in Poland on the conditions to be met when discharging sewage into water or soil, and on the substances particularly harmful to the aquatic environment. The removal efficiency of organic compounds, expressed as COD and BOD5, reached the threshold of 90%, which is required in regulations. In contrast, the effects of removal of biogenic compounds were low - in case of total nitrogen the removal rate reached approx. 40% and the desired admissible concentration of 30 mg N/L was not achieved. The reduction efficiency of total suspended solids reached 57.0 and 59.6% for the ORS and SBR-K-6 type objects, respectively, and therefore the required threshold of minimum 90% was not reached. Anionic surfactants were removed by up to 98 and 88% in the ORS and SBR-K-6 type wastewater treatment plants, respectively. Lower removal efficiency was achieved in case on non-ionic surfactants, which reached 76% for the ORS type object and 56% for the SBR-K-6 type object. This article proven high wastewater treatment efficiency and lower than necessary concentrations in the effluent from domestic wastewater treatment plants may be achieved mainly by proper exploitation of the devices and appropriately selected vegetation.
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- Izabela Kruszelnicka
- Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Poznan University of Technology, Berdychowo 4, 60-965 Poznan, Poland
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- Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Poznan University of Technology, Berdychowo 4, 60-965 Poznan, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry and Technical Electrochemistry, Poznan University of Technology, Berdychowo 4, 60-965 Poznan, Poland
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- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, Z. Noskowskiego 12/14, 61-704 Poznan, Poland
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Macedo TZ, Silva EL, Sakamoto IK, Zaiat M, Varesche MBA. Influence of linear alkylbenzene sulfonate and ethanol on the degradation kinetics of domestic sewage in co-digestion with commercial laundry wastewater. Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 2019; 42:1547-1558. [DOI: 10.1007/s00449-019-02152-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2019] [Accepted: 05/23/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Delforno TP, Macedo TZ, Midoux C, Lacerda GV, Rué O, Mariadassou M, Loux V, Varesche MBA, Bouchez T, Bize A, Oliveira VM. Comparative metatranscriptomic analysis of anaerobic digesters treating anionic surfactant contaminated wastewater. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2019; 649:482-494. [PMID: 30176460 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.08.328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2018] [Revised: 08/23/2018] [Accepted: 08/24/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Three distinct biological reactors fed with synthetic medium (UASB_Control), synthetic medium and linear alkylbenzene sulfonate (LAS; UASB_SL), and real laundry wastewater (UASB_LW) were compared using a metatranscriptomic approach to determine putative bioindicator genes and taxonomies associated to all steps of anaerobic LAS biodegradation pathway. A homemade bioinformatics pipeline combined with an R workflow was developed to perform the RNAseq data analysis. UASB_SL and UASB_LW showed similar values of LAS biological degradation (~47%) and removal (53-55%). Rarefaction analysis revealed that 1-2 million reads were sufficient to access the whole functional capacity. In the first step of LAS biodegradation pathway, fumarate reductase subunit C was detected and taxonomically assigned to the genus Syntrophobacter (0.002% - UASB_SL; 0.0015% - UASB_LW; not detected - UASB_Control). In the second step, many enzymes related to beta-oxidation were observed and most of them with low relative abundance in UASB Control and taxonomically related with Smithella, Acinetobacter and Syntrophorhabdus. For the ring cleavage step, the abundance of 6 OCH CoA hydrolase putative gene was ten times higher in UASB_SL and UASB_LW when compared to UASB_Control, and assigned to Desulfomonile and Syntrophorhabdus. Finally, the adenylylsulfate reductase, taxonomically related with Desulfovibrio and Desulfomonile, was observed in the desulfonation step with the highest relative abundance in UASB_LW.
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- Tiago P Delforno
- Microbial Resources Division, Research Center for Chemistry, Biology and Agriculture (CPQBA), Campinas University - UNICAMP, Campinas, SP CEP 13081-970, Brazil.
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- Laboratory of Biological Processes, Department of Hydraulics and Sanitation, Engineering School of São Carlos, University of São Paulo (EESC - USP) Campus II, São Carlos, SP CEP 13563-120, Brazil
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- Irstea, UR HBAN, F-92761 Antony, France; Mathématiques et Informatique Appliquées du Génome à l'Environnement - MaIAGE, UR1404, INRA, 78352 Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- Microbial Resources Division, Research Center for Chemistry, Biology and Agriculture (CPQBA), Campinas University - UNICAMP, Campinas, SP CEP 13081-970, Brazil
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- Mathématiques et Informatique Appliquées du Génome à l'Environnement - MaIAGE, UR1404, INRA, 78352 Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- Mathématiques et Informatique Appliquées du Génome à l'Environnement - MaIAGE, UR1404, INRA, 78352 Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- Mathématiques et Informatique Appliquées du Génome à l'Environnement - MaIAGE, UR1404, INRA, 78352 Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- Laboratory of Biological Processes, Department of Hydraulics and Sanitation, Engineering School of São Carlos, University of São Paulo (EESC - USP) Campus II, São Carlos, SP CEP 13563-120, Brazil
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- Microbial Resources Division, Research Center for Chemistry, Biology and Agriculture (CPQBA), Campinas University - UNICAMP, Campinas, SP CEP 13081-970, Brazil
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Motteran F, Nadai BM, Braga JK, Silva EL, Varesche MBA. Metabolic routes involved in the removal of linear alkylbenzene sulfonate (LAS) employing linear alcohol ethoxylated and ethanol as co-substrates in enlarged scale fluidized bed reactor. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2018; 640-641:1411-1423. [PMID: 30021307 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.05.375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2018] [Revised: 05/28/2018] [Accepted: 05/30/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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In this study, the microbial community characterization and metabolic pathway identification involved in the linear alkylbenzene sulfonated (LAS) degradation from commercial laundry wastewater in a fluidized bed reactor (FBR) on an increased scale were performed using the Illumina MiSeq platform. Ethanol and non-ionic surfactant (LAE, Genapol C-100) were used as co-substrates. The FBR was operated in five operational phases: (I) synthetic substrate for inoculation; (II) 7.9 ± 4.7 mg/L LAS and 11.7 ± 6.9 mg/L LAE; (III) 19.4 ± 12.9 mg/L LAS, 19.6 ± 9.2 mg/L LAE and 205 mg/L ethanol; (IV) 25.9 ± 11 mg/L LAS, 19.5 ± 9.1 mg/L LAE and 205 mg/L ethanol and (V) 43.9 ± 18 mg/L LAS, 25 ± 9.8 mg/L LAE and 205 mg/L ethanol. At all operation phases, organic matter was removed from 40.4 to 85.1% and LAS removal was from 24.7 to 56%. Sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) were identified in the biofilm of FBR in all operational phases. Although the LAS promoted a toxic effect on the microbiota, this effect can be reduced when using biodegradable co-substrates, such as ethanol and LAE, which was observed in Phase IV. In this phase, there was a greater microbial diversity (Shannon index) and higher microorganism richness (Chao 1 index), both for the Domain Bacteria, and for the Domain Archaea.
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- Fabricio Motteran
- Department of Hydraulics and Sanitation, School of Engineering of São Carlos, University of São Paulo, Av. Trabalhador Sãocarlense, 400, 13566-590 São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
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- Department of Hydraulics and Sanitation, School of Engineering of São Carlos, University of São Paulo, Av. Trabalhador Sãocarlense, 400, 13566-590 São Carlos, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Hydraulics and Sanitation, School of Engineering of São Carlos, University of São Paulo, Av. Trabalhador Sãocarlense, 400, 13566-590 São Carlos, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Federal University of São Carlos, Rod. Washington Luiz, Km 235, SP 310, 13565-905 São Carlos, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Hydraulics and Sanitation, School of Engineering of São Carlos, University of São Paulo, Av. Trabalhador Sãocarlense, 400, 13566-590 São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
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