Novel oxygen-releasing immobilized cell beads for bioremediation of BTEX-contaminated water

CW Lin, CH Wu, CT Tang, SH Chang - Bioresource Technology, 2012 - Elsevier
Novel oxygen-releasing bead (ORB) and oxygen-releasing immobilized cell bead (ORICB)
were prepared. Their oxygen releasing characteristics and effect on degradation of …

Biosorption of nickel and cadmium in the presence of diethylketone by a Streptococcus equisimilis biofilm supported on vermiculite

F Costa, T Tavares - International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation, 2016 - Elsevier
A Streptococcus equisimilis biofilm supported on clays was used to decontaminate aqueous
solutions containing diethylketone (DEK), nickel and/or cadmium, in a batch mode. The …

Concomitant mineralization and detoxification of acid red 88 by an indigenous acclimated mixed culture

M Anil Kumar, V Vinoth Kumar… - Environmental …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
An indigenous mixed bacterial culture was screened and acclimated to decolorize a
sulfonated azo dye; Acid Red 88 (AR88) under changing growth conditions. The process …

Batch growth kinetic studies for elimination of phenol and cyanide using mixed microbial culture

N Singh, C Balomajumder - Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
The efficiency of a mixed microbial culture to eliminate phenol and cyanide from aqueous
solution was estimated in a batch process. The influence of initial concentration of phenol …

[PDF][PDF] Study on kinetic models for analysing the bacterial growth rate

DJ Mahanta, M Borah, P Saikia - AIJRSTEM, 2014 - Citeseer
Four mathematical models for the prediction of bacterial growth rate; Blackman, Monod,
Moser, Powell models are examined in this paper. The objectives of this study is to estimate …

Performance of a rotating biological contactor treating VOC emissions from paint industry

A Datta, L Philip - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2014 - Elsevier
In this study, the performance of a rotating biological contactor (RBC) treating complex
mixtures of VOCs commonly found in surface coating manufacturing and application …

Bioremoval of Ni and Cd in the presence of diethylketone by fungi and by bacteria–A comparative study

F Costa, T Tavares - International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation, 2017 - Elsevier
Two fungi (Alternaria sp. and Penicillium sp.) and one gram-positive bacterium
(Streptococcus equisimilis) were used to remove Ni and Cd from aqueous solutions in the …

Biodegradation of volatile organic compounds from paint industries

A Datta, L Philip - Applied biochemistry and biotechnology, 2012 - Springer
Methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) and methyl iso-butyl ketone (MIBK) constitute significant
proportion of the total VOC emissions from manufacturing and application processes of …

Kinetics of biodegradation of diethylketone by Arthrobacter viscosus

F Costa, C Quintelas, T Tavares - Biodegradation, 2012 - Springer
The performance of an Arthrobacter viscosus culture to remove diethylketone from aqueous
solutions was evaluated. The effect of initial concentration of diethylketone on the growth of …

Hydrophobic mixed culture for 1, 2-dichloroethane biodegradation: Batch-mode biodegradability and application performance in two-phase partitioning airlift …

C Wu, W Li, P Xu, S Li, X Wang - Process Safety and Environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Recent studies highlighted that hydrophobic microorganisms played key roles in VOC
removal performance of two-phase partitioning bioreactors (TPPBs). The objective of this …