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Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering >> 2012, Volume 6, Issue 2 doi: 10.1007/s11783-011-0314-6

Effect of pH on biologic degradation of

Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China

Available online: 2012-04-01

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Abstract

In this paper, the effect of pH on biological degradation of by alga-lysing bacteria in laboratory-scale sequencing batch biofilm reactors (SBBRs) was investigated. After 10 d filming with waste activated sludge, the biological film could be formed, and the bioreactors in which laid polyolefin resin filler were used to treat algal culture. By comparing the removal efficiency of chlorophyll at different aerobic time, the optimum time was determined as 5 h. Under pH 6.5, 7.5, and 8.5 conditions, the removal rates of were respectively 75.9%, 83.6%, and 78.3% (in term of chlorophyll ), and that of Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD ) were 30.6%, 35.8%, and 33.5%. While the removal efficiencies of ammonia nitrogen ( ) were all 100%. It was observed that the sequence of the removal efficiencies of algae, and organic matter were pH 7.5>pH 8.5>pH 6.5. The results showed that the dominant alga-lysing bacteria in the SBBRs was strain HM-01, which was identified as sp. by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) amplification of the 16S rRNA gene, Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) analysis, and comparison with sequences in the GenBank nucleotide database. The algicidal activated substance which HM-01 strain excreted could withstand high temperature and pressure, also had better hydrophily and stronger polarity.

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