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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 7, Issue 2, Pages 359-366Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/BF03326145
Keywords
Bioremediation; Enzyme; Half-life; Organochlorine pesticide; Residue
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- Guangdong Province of China [2008B080701012]
- Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars of Ministry of Education of China
- Science and the Technology Planning Project of Guangzhou city of China [2007Z3-E0471]
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This research describes application of laccase from white-rot fungi (polyporus) to remove dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane in soil. The degradation kinetics of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane in soil was also investigated by laboratory batch experiments. The results showed that laccase from white-rot fungi can effectively degrade dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane and the degradation of total dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (the sum of the four dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane compounds in a sample) was pseudo-first-order kinetics. The residues of almost all the dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane components and total dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane in soils treated with laccase decreased rapidly during first 15 days and then kept at a stable level during next 10 days. The residues of total dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane in soils with different dosages laccase decreased by about 21-32 %, 29-45%, 35-51 % and 36-51 % after 5, 10, 15 and 25 days of incubation, respectively. The half-life of total dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane in soils with different dosages laccase ranged from 24.75 to 41.75 days. The residues of total dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane in three different types of soils decreased by 25-29 %, 39-43 %, 44-47 % and 47-52 % after 5, 10, 15 and 25 days of incubation with laccase, respectively. The half-life of total dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane in different types of soil ranged from 24.71 to 27.68 days. The residues of total dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane in soils with different pH levels decreased by 18-24 %, 29-39 %, 36-39 % and 39-50% after 5, 10, 15 and 25 days of incubation with laccase, respectively. The half-life of total dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane ranged from 25.63 to 36.42 days. Laccase can be an efficient and safe agent for remediation of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane-contaminated soil.
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