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Enhanced removal of sulfur-containing organic pollutants from actual wastewater by biofilm reactor: Insights of sulfur transformation and bacterial metabolic traits

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ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
卷 313, 期 -, 页码 -

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.120187

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Organic sulfur pollutants; Biofilm reactor; Sulfur transformation; Bacterial community; Genetic expression

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  1. Shanghai Natural Science Foundation [22ZR1466900]
  2. National Key Research and Develop-ment Program of China [2019YFC1906302]
  3. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2021M692423]

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This study demonstrates the feasibility of utilizing membrane aerated biofilm reactor (MABR) for the removal of sulfur-containing organic pollutants in wastewater. The system showed a high removal efficiency of approximately 100% and transformed over 70% of the pollutants into less harmful forms. The study also identified the key metabolic pathways and corresponding gene expressions that were up-regulated during the process, which greatly facilitated the transformation of sulfur-containing organic pollutants.
Sulfur-containing organic pollutants in wastewater could threaten human health due to their high malodor and toxicity, and their conversion processes are more complex than inorganic sulfur compounds. Membrane aerated biofilm reactor (MABR), as a novel and environmentally-friendly biofilm-based technology, is able to remove inorganic sulfur in synthetic wastewater. However, it is unknown how sulfur-containing organic pollutants in actual wastewater are transformed in MABR system. This work demonstrated the feasibility of MABR to eliminate sulfur-containing organic pollutants in actual wastewater, and the removal efficiency could be reached at approximately 100%. Meanwhile, over 70% of sulfur-containing organic contaminants were transformed to SO42- during the long-term operation. Further analysis indicated that the functional bacteria that participated in sulfur transformation and carbohydrates degradation (e.g., Chujaibacter, Microscillaceae sp., and Thiobacillus) were evidently enriched when treating actual wastewater. Moreover, the critical metabolic pathways (e.g., sulfur metabolism, glycolysis metabolism, and pyruvate metabolism), and the corresponding genetic expressions (e.g., nrrA, tauA, tauC, sorA, and SUOX) were evidently up-regulated during long-term operation, which was beneficial for the transformation of sulfur-containing organic pollutants in actual wastewater by MABR. This work would expand the application of MABR for treating the actual sulfur-containing organic wastewater and provide an in-depth understanding of the organic sulfur transformation in MABR.

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