Background Phenols are chemical compounds which are included in the high priority of pollutants by environmental protection agency (USEPA). The presence of high concentrations of phenols in wastewaters like oil refineries, petrochemical plants, olive oil, pesticide production and oil field operations contain high soluble solids (TDS) and in an olive oil plant, wastewater is acidic, high salty a...

Treatment of hydrocarbon-rich industrial wastewater in bioreactors using heterotrophic microorganisms is often associated with various operational problems. In this study, a consortium of phototrophic microorganisms and a bacterium is developed on the discs of a rotating biological contactor (RBC) for treatment of wastewater containing diesel oil. The reactor was fed with oil degrading bacteriu...

GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT ABSTRACT Phenanthrene is one of the most recalcitrant components of crude oil-contaminated wastewater. An efficient phenanthrene-degrading bacterium Pseudomonas sp. strain named LZ-Q was isolated from oil-contaminated soil near the sewage outlet of a petrochemical company. Pseudomonas sp. LZ-Q is able to degrade 1000 mg/L phenanthrene in Bushnell-Hass mineral salt medium. ...

Abstract A novel strategy of using microalgae Chlorella vulgaris for simultaneous bio-treatment petrochemical wastewater and lipid production was developed in the present study. Phycoremediation carried out 30 days. The profile fatty acids identified, specifications biodiesel including saponification value, iodine cetane number, long-chain saturated factor, cold filter plugging point, cloud all...

The prospection of bacteria that are resistant to polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) activated sludge from a Petrochemical Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) allows investigating potential biodegraders PAH. For this purpose, samples were cultured with benzo(a)pyrene and/or naphthalene as carbon sources. recovered isolates characterized by biochemical methods and identified based on the analysis seq...

| More from the authors | Email niuxx@ eyou.com | Citation export 9. Pretreatment of petrochemical wastewater by coagulation and flocculation and the sludge characteristics. Verma S, Prasad B, Mishra IM: J Hazard Mater; 2010 Jun 15;178(1-3):1055-64 Abstract | More from the authors | Citation export 10. Evaluation of reusing alum sludge for the coagulation of industrial wastewater containing mix...