期刊
CHEMOSPHERE
卷 144, 期 -, 页码 607-614出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2015.09.014
关键词
Steroidal estrogen; Biodegradation; Bacterial immobilization technique; Bioaugmentation
资金
- Fujian Province Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists [2013J06012]
- Hundred Talents Program of Fujian Province, China
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31370503]
- Science and Technology Planning Project of Ningbo, China [2013A610172, 2012C5011]
Contamination of steroidal estrogens in the environment has raised a great public concern, and therefore, developing an effective method for removal of trace amount of environmental estrogens is necessary. In this study, two estrogen-degrading bacteria were isolated from activated sludge and were identified as strain Sphingomonas sp. ARC-F and strain Sphingobium sp. AX-B. They were capable of utilizing estrone (El) and 17 beta-estradiol (E2) as sole carbon and energy source. Cell immobilization technique was applied to these two estrogen-degrading bacteria. Confocal laser-scanning microscopy images with live and dead staining of entrapped bacterial cells showed that most bacteria were present inside the porous structure and were mostly viable after immobilization procedures. Batch estrogen degradation study showed that immobilized strains AHC-F and AX-B could effectively degrade 2 mg/L of E2 and its metabolite El. Immobilized bacteria column reactors using pure culture of strain ARC-F were set up for continuous-flow removal of 850 ng/L of E2 in the influent. The removal efficiency of E2 and equivalent estrogenic quantity of E2 (EEQ) could achieve 94 and 87% under 12 h hydraulic retention time (HRT), respectively. Increasing HRT could further improve the removal efficiency of EEQ, When the HRT increased to 72 h, the effluent concentrations of E2 and El were not detectable by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Our results also proved that most of the estrogen removal was due to biodegradation. This study has demonstrated the potential use of immobilized bacteria technique for the removal of environmental estrogens. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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