Advances in exopolysaccharides based bioremediation of heavy metals in soil and water: a critical review

UR Sardar, E Bhargavi, I Devi, B Bhunia… - Carbohydrate …, 2018 - Elsevier
Extracellular polysaccharides or Exopolysaccharides (EPS) are extensively studied bacterial
byproducts with high molecular weight attributed to several applications. In spite of their …

Understanding and optimization of the flocculation process in biological wastewater treatment processes: A review

A Suresh, E Grygolowicz-Pawlak, S Pathak, LS Poh… - Chemosphere, 2018 - Elsevier
In the operation of biological wastewater treatment processes, fast sludge settling during
liquid-solids disengagement is preferred as it affects effluent quality, treatment efficiency and …

Role of extracellular polymeric substances in a methane based membrane biofilm reactor reducing vanadate

CY Lai, QY Dong, JX Chen, QS Zhu… - … science & technology, 2018 - ACS Publications
For the first time, we demonstrated vanadate (V (V)) reduction in a membrane biofilm reactor
(MBfR) using CH4 as the sole electron donor. The V (V)-reducing capability of the biofilm …

Heavy Metal Stress and Its Consequences on Exopolysaccharide (EPS)-Producing Pantoea agglomerans

BV Mohite, SH Koli, SV Patil - Applied biochemistry and biotechnology, 2018 - Springer
Currently, the heavy metal pollution is of grave concern, and the part of microorganism for
metal bioremediation should take into account as an efficient and economic strategy. On this …

Nature and value of freely dissolved EPS ecosystem services: insight into molecular coupling mechanisms for regulating metal toxicity

W Shou, F Kang, J Lu - Environmental science & technology, 2018 - ACS Publications
Extracellular polymeric substances (EPSs) dispersed in natural waters play a significant role
in relieving impacts to microbial survival associated with heavy metal release, yet little is …

Fate and removal of metals in municipal wastewater treatment: a review

AJ Hargreaves, C Constantino, G Dotro… - Environmental …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Municipal effluents contain heavy metals in particular copper, lead, nickel, zinc and mercury.
The concern regarding the impact of these contaminants in the aquatic environment is …

Membrane filtration-based recovery of extracellular polymer substances from excess sludge and analysis of their heavy metal ion adsorption properties

DQ Cao, X Song, XM Fang, WY Yang, XD Hao… - Chemical Engineering …, 2018 - Elsevier
Excess sludge production by wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) represents a serious
environmental problem that necessitates the development of effective sludge …

Heavy Metal Ion Stress on Halobacterium salinarum R1 Planktonic Cells and Biofilms

S Völkel, S Fröls, F Pfeifer - Frontiers in microbiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Halobacterium salinarum R1 is an extremely halophilic archaeon, able to attach to the
surface and to form characteristic biofilm structures under physiological conditions …

Adsorption of cesium ion by marine actinobacterium Nocardiopsis sp. 13H and their extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) role in bioremediation

P Sivaperumal, K Kamala, R Rajaram - Environmental Science and …, 2018 - Springer
This paper evaluates the cesium adsorption of marine actinobacterium Nocardiposis sp.
13H strain isolated from nuclear power plant sites in India. It could remove 88.6±0.72% of …

[HTML][HTML] 城镇污泥胞外聚合物对重金属吸附特征及机制

魏亮亮, 王胜, 薛茂, 赵庆良 - 哈尔滨工业大学学报, 2018 - hit.alljournals.cn
中国城镇污水处理行业重水轻泥现象严重, 致使大量市政污泥积聚并亟待处理处置.
在污泥处理处置过程中, 重金属不断富集, 其广泛存在严重制约了污泥最终的土地利用, 因此 …