This report describes novel fungal inocula for bioaugmentation of soils contaminated with hazardous organic compounds. The inocula are in the form of pelleted solid substrates coated with a sodium alginate suspension of fungal spores or mycelial fragments and incubated until overgrown with the mycelium of selected lignin-degrading fungi. The organisms evaluated were Phanerochaete chrysosporium ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the performance of soil-slurry bioreactor used for remediating contaminated soil with 4-nitrophenol (4-NP). METHODS The slurry bioreactor was used to degrade different concentrations of 4-nitrophenol with or without inoculating the acclimated activated sludge. HPLC system (Hewlett-Packard model 5050 with a UV detector) was used for the quantification of 4-nitrophenol....

Pesticides and their residues frequently contaminate surface waters and groundwater so consequently there is a great need to identify methods and practices that reduce such contamination. This thesis examined the potential of a ‘bioprophylactic’ concept based on the hypothesis that diffuse contamination after application in the field can be significantly reduced if pesticides are degraded as ra...

Abstract — Bioaugmentation, i.e., increasing the abundance of certain microorganisms in community by adding appropriate cells or establishing conditions promoting their growth, is widely used environmental technologies. Its application for launching anammox reactors usually limited to introduction bacteria. We expected addition nitrifiers during bioreactor stimulate process due rapid production...

Bioaugmentation potential and phenol substrate affinity in a multi-carbon-source condition for three Acinetobacter strains (Acinetobacter towneri CFII-87, johnsonii CFII-99A sp. CFII-98) were demonstrated. First, the biodegradation ability of was analyzed batch experiments with as sole carbon source. All degraded at 100 500 mg·L−1 initial concentrations; maximum specific growth rates 0.59 0.30 ...