The enrichment of enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) sludge with Tetrasphaera was obtained for the first time using glutamate as sole carbon source. Two configurations were tested, an SBR with anaerobic/aerobic sequence and a continuous anaerobic/anoxic/aerobic (A/O) pilot plant. Better results and improved stability was obtained in the continuous A/O operation. Accumulibacter were a...

Municipal sewage is the main exposure route for antibiotics that are used in human medical care. Antibiotics that adsorb to the primary sludge and/or sur-plus activated sludge will enter the anaerobic digesters of municipal sewage treatment plants. Here anaerobic biodegradation or inhibition of anaerobic bacteria resulting in a disturbance of the process might occur. ISO standards 13641 (2003) ...

Functional interplays of microbial activity, genetic diversity and contaminant transformation are poorly understood in reactors for mineralizing halogenated aromatics anaerobically. Here, we investigated abundance and distribution of potential microbes and functional genes associated with pentachlorophenol (PCP) anaerobic mineralization in a continuous-flow cylindrical reactor (15 cm in length)...

• Assessment of bioplastic degradation during mesophilic treatments at pilot scale. Bioplastics degraded by 17 % and 30 total solids after AD plus composting. Compost showed high content (18 TS) did not meet legal limits. Starch-based bioplastics degrades faster than polylactic acid polymer in soil. soil degrade completely 8–9 years according to calculated kinetic. The aim the study was assess ...

Nitrous oxide (N2O) is an important and strong greenhouse gas in the atmosphere and part of a feed-back loop with climate. N2O is produced by microbes during nitrification and denitrification in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The main sinks for N2O are turnover by denitrification and photolysis and photo-oxidation in the stratosphere. The position of the isotope N in the linear N=N=O molec...

Azathiopnine was without significant mutagenic potential (Table 1, Experiment 1) when exposure of the bacteria to the drug was carried out under the standard procedure developed by Ames et a!. (1, 3). However, when the initial exposure of the bacteria to the test agent was allowed to occur under anaerobic conditions, a mutagenic effect was cleanly demonstrable (Table 1, Experiment 1). This effe...

Microbial communities and their associated metabolic activities, methanogenesis anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM), are the key components carbon biocycles in continental margin sediments. The composition diversity microbial a methanic environment have been widely investigated, but identifying direct correlations between activities remains challenge. Here, we investigated shifting that perfor...

Title of Document: USE OF INORGANIC BY-PRODUCT AMENDED COMPOST/MANURE TO SEQUESTER METALS AND PHOSPHORUS FROM DIFFUSE SOURCE POLLUTION Hunho Kim, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010 Directed By: Professor, Allen P. Davis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Research Scientist, Rufus L. Chaney, ARS, US Department of Agriculture. Heavy metals and nutrients released from diffuse sources by u...