Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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579748 | Journal of Hazardous Materials | 2010 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
In this study, thermophilic microbial strains from thermal spots in northwestern Spain displaying excellent decolorization capability were isolated. The research work tackled: (i) the ability of consortia to degrade a model di-azo dye Reactive Black at different pHs in flask cultures, obtaining that just neutral pHs licensed degradation levels near to 70%, (ii) the isolation of tree of the bacteria, which rendered possible reaching high levels of decolorization (80%) after just 24Â h in aerobic conditions, and which were identified through 16S rRNA sequencing to possess high homology (99%) with Anoxybacillus pushchinoensis, Anoxybacillus kamchatkensis and Anoxybacillus flavithermus, and (iii) the cultivation of the isolates in a bench-scale bioreactor, which led to a decolorization rate two-fold higher than that obtained in flask cultures. Therefore, this work makes up the first time that a decolorization process of an azo dye by thermophilic microorganisms in aerobic conditions is investigated.
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Authors
F.J. Deive, A. DomÃnguez, T. Barrio, F. Moscoso, P. Morán, M.A. Longo, M.A. Sanromán,