Gaseous dimethyl sulphide (DMS) was eliminated in a biotrickling filter with Thiobacillus thioparus grown in polyurethane foam cubes as carrier material. The temperature, pH and empty bed residence time of the gas were maintained at 30 degrees C, 7.0 and 40 s, respectively. In the first 45 days, DMS loads of around 2.0 gDMS m(-3) h(-1) were fed to the BTF to adapt T. thioparus to DMS consumptio...

1. Thiobacillus strain C oxidized [35S]thiosulphate completely to sulphate. 2. During thiosulphate oxidation [35S]sulphate was formed more rapidly from (S. 35SO3)2than from (35S *SO3)2-. 35S disappeared less rapidly from thiosulphate with (35S SO3)2as substrate than with (S.35SO3)2-. 3. Thiosulphate labelled in both atoms was produced during (35S * SO3)2oxidation, but not during (S. 35SO3)2oxid...

The contribution of CO2 to cell material synthesis in Thiobacillus novellus under nutrient-limited conditions was estimated by comparing 14CO2 uptake rates of steady-state autotrophic cultures with that of heterotrophic and mixotrophic cultures at a given dilution rate. Under heterotrophic conditions, some 13% of the cell carbon was derived from CO2; this is similar to the usual anaplerotic CO2...

Fifty mesophilic and five moderately thermophilic strains of acidophilic heterotrophic bacteria were tested for the ability to reduce ferric iron in liquid and solid media under aerobic conditions; about 40% of the mesophiles (but none of the moderate thermophiles) displayed at least some capacity to reduce iron. Both rates and extents of ferric iron reduction were highly strain dependent. No a...

The effect of glutaraldehyde (GA) in different concentrations on microbiological activities of Bacillus licheniformis, Desulfotomaculum ruminis and Thiobacillus ferrooxidans bacteria used in the processes of denitrification, desulfurication and iron (II) oxidation, respectively, has been tested. For the sake of comparison, the effect of formaldehyde (FA) on the activities of the same organisms ...