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PROCESS BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 45, Issue 2, Pages 230-238Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2009.09.013
Keywords
Bioslurry phase reactor; Burkholderia cepacia PCL3; Bioremediation; Carbofuran; Immobilization; Soil slurry
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- Thailand Research Fund (TRF), Bangkok, Thailand [DBG5180001]
- Research Centre for Environmental and Hazardous Substance Management, Khon Kaen University, Thailand
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The effectiveness of bioremediation technology in the removal of carbofuran from contaminated soil using a bioslurry phase sequencing batch reactor (SBR) was investigated. A 2-L laboratory glass bottle was used as a bioreactor with a working volume of 1.5 L at room temperature(27 +/- 2 degrees C). One total cycle period of the SBR was comprised of 1 h of fill phase, 82 h of react phase, and 1 h of decant phase. The carbofuran concentration in the soil was 20 mg/kg soil. A carbofuran degrader isolated from carbofuran phytoremediated soil, namely Burkholderia cepacia PCL3 (PCL3) immobilized on corncob, was used as the inoculum. The results revealed that bioaugmentation treatment (addition of PCL3) gave the highest percentage of carbofuran removal (96.97%), followed by bioaugmentation together with biostimulation (addition of molasses) treatment (88.23%), suggesting that bioremediation was an effective technology for removing carbofuran in contaminated soil. Abiotic experiments. i.e. autoclaved soil slurry with corncob and no PCL3 treatment and autoclaved soil slurry with no PCL3 treatment, could adsorb 31.86% and 7.70% of carbofuran, respectively, which implied that soil and corncob could act as sorbents for the removal of carbofuran. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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