Caracterização microbiológica de cultura desnitrificante de reator anaeróbio horizontal de leito fixo utilizado na remoção de BTEX / Microbiologic characterization of anaerobic packed-bed reactor denitrifying culture used for BTEX removal

AUTOR(ES)

Valquiria Ribeiro de Gusmão

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

The monoaromatic hydrocarbons known as BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene) are among the greatest environmental pollution problems. These compounds are known by their recalcitrance in anoxic environments, and the removal of these toxics from anaerobic contaminated sites depends on the presence of an adapted microbial population capable of to promote the biodegradation of these compounds under such condition. Thus, in the current study a denitrifying culture was purified, characterized and used as inoculum to form a biofilm in a horizontal-flow anaerobic immobilized biomass reactor filled with polyurethane foam, and to assess the potential of this biofilm to promote BTEX compounds biodegradation. Culture cells were Gram negative, with coccus (diplococcus and cocobacilli) morphology. The culture was able to grow, under denitrifying conditions, using different substrates. No growth was seen in sulfate-reducing conditions. Growth velocity( mü ) of 0.046/h and 0.050/h, and generation time of 15.1 and 13.9 hours were obtained for cultures isolated in the presence of benzene and ethylbenzene, respectively. The purified culture was used to form a biofilm inside RAHLF. At all feeding conditions the reactors were submitted the organic matter, nitrate and hydrocarbons were removed. The smallest hydrocarbons removal efficiency was 89.4%, obtained during benzene feeding. The organic matter (COD) was removed with mean efficiency of 87.1%. The mean efficiency of nitrate removal was 94.0%. Sequencing of samples showed that the RAHLF1 biofilm was composed specially for Paracoccus, Pseudomonas and Bacteroides species. Biofilm of RAHLF2 reactor, obtained from ethylbenzene feeding, was composed by Paracoccus, Pseudomonas, Xanthomonas and Variovorax species

ASSUNTO(S)

haib tolueno ethylbenzene xilenos biodegradação paracoccus toluene paracoccus benzene biodegradation rahlf benzeno bactérias desnitrificantes etilbenzeno pseudomonas xylenes denitrifying bacteria pseudomonas

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