期刊
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
卷 815, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151961
关键词
Alkane hydroxylase CYP153; Alkane monooxygenase alkB; Fixed-bed biofiltration; Naphthenic acids; Nature-based solutions
资金
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Senior Industrial Research Chair (IRC) in Oil Sands Tailings Water Treatment
- Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA)
- Syncrude Canada Ltd.
- Suncor Energy Inc.
- EPCOR Water Services, Alberta Innovates
- Alberta Environ-ment and Parks
- Canada First Re-search Excellence Fund as a part of the University of Alberta's Future Energy Systems Research Initiative
Biofiltration with petroleum coke as a substratum is being increasingly used for the treatment of oil sands process water. However, anaerobic digestion of dissolved organics in the fixed bed biofilters leads to poor removal of naphthenic acids. In this study, the operation of biofilters was modified by supporting the filtering bed with aerobic naphthenic acid-degrading bacteria to improve the remediation of oil sands process water.
There is an increasing interest in treatment of oil sands process water (OSPW) via biofiltration with petroleum coke (PC) as a substratum. In fixed bed biofilters (FBBs) with PC, the dominance of anaerobic digestion of dissolved organics results in poor removal of naphthenic acids (NAs) along with a high degree of methanogenesis. In this study, the operation of FBBs was modified to improve OSPW remediation by supporting the filtering bed with aerobic naphthenic acid-degrading bacteria treating aerated OSPW (FBBbioaugmentation). The results were compared with a biofilter operated under controlled conditions (FBBcontrol). To this end, a consortium of three aerobic NAs-degrading bacterial strains was immobilized on PC as a top layer (10 cm). These bacteria were pre-screened for growth on 15 different NAs surrogates as a sole carbon source, and for the presence of catabolic genes coding alkane hydroxylase (CYP153) and alkane monooxygenase (alkB) enzymes. The results illustrated that biofiltration in FBBbioaugmentation removed 32% of classical NAs in 15 days; while in the FBBcontrol, degradation was limited to 19%. The degradation of fluorophore (aromatic) compounds was also improved from 16% to 39% for single ring (O-I), 22% to 29% for double ring (O-II), and 15% to 23% for three rings (O-III) compounds. DNA-Stable Isotope Probing revealed that potential hydrocarbons degraders such as Pseudomonas (inoculated), Pseudoxanthomonas (indigenous) were present up to 9.0% in the C-13-labelled DNA fraction. Furthermore, a high abundance of methylotrophs was observed in the Schmutzdecke, with Methylobacillus comprising more than two-third of the total community. This study shows that bioaugmentation rapidly improved OSPW remediation. Aeration mostly contributed to methane consumption in the top layer, thus minimizing its release into the environment.
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