Petroleum substances are the main source of pollutants stored in old waste pits. They cause degradation of biological life in the area of storage. The aim of this article is to present laboratory research on petroleum pollutant biodegradation. The hydrocarbon contaminants in old drilling wastes came from the Graby-19 waste pit. The tests included basic bioremediation and inoculation with a biop...

Mangrove sediment harbors a unique microbiome and is a hospitable environment for a diverse group of bacteria capable of oil biodegradation. Our goal was to understand bacterial community dynamics from mangrove sediments contaminated with heavy-oil and to evaluate patterns potentially associated with oil biodegradation is such environments. We tested the previously proposed hypothesis of a two-...

The reduction of ammonia-nitrogen fluxes from polluted streams entering the Tai Lake is an important task in areas with limnetic eutrophication. Biofilm technique for the polluted streams has been proposed as one effective method to reduce ammonia-nitrogen fluxes entering the Tai Lake. In this study, ammonia-nitrogen biodegradation in a created biofilm purification engineering was evaluated by ...

This work investigated development of operating envelopes for stabilisation/solidification (S/S) treatment, and facilitation of biodegradation within S/S treated contaminated soils, with the aim of improving the robustness and sustainability of S/S technology. The ‘process envelopes’ study utilised different conventional cementitious binders for treatment of contaminated soil, and generated ext...

The current work is aimed to evaluate the degradation of Reactive Red 35 (RR35) by Pseudomonas aeruginosa ARSKS20 that decolorized 100 mg/L dye at 8.27 mg/L/h rate under optimum conditions. Induction of laccase, lignin peroxidase, tyrosinase, Veratryl alcohol oxidase, NADH-DCIP reductase, azoreductase enzymes during dye decolorization suggested their active participation in dye degradation. Met...

Two laboratory scale fully aerated continuous flow wastewater treatment systems were used to compare the removal of five benzotriazoles and one benzothiazole by suspended and attached growth biomass. The activated sludge system was operated under low organic loading conditions. The moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) system consisted of two serially connected reactors filled with K3-biocarriers. ...

Recent studies of municipal solid waste landfills have revealed the influence of biodegradation upon secondary settlement. Modern landfills, however, are designed with efficient containment systems which minimise moisture ingress and thereby reduce leachate and gas generation. The shortage of moisture means that these containment systems delay decomposition and stabilisation of waste. An altern...

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The increasing industrial development promotes serious environmental damage due to pollution of the environment. Regarding the petrochemical industry, contamination by oil and its derivatives causes the degradation of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Thus, control and treatment strategies to combat the hazardous effects of oil pollution are needed. However, conventional physical-chemical tre...

Biodegradation of diesel oil (5 g(middot)kg [soil dry weight](sup-1)) was investigated in five alpine subsoils, differing in soil type and bedrock, in laboratory experiments during 20 days at 10(deg)C. The biodegradation activities of the indigenous soil microorganisms and of a psychrotrophic diesel oil-degrading inoculum and the effect of biostimulation by inorganic fertilization (C/N/P ratio ...