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Sun Y, Sun Y, Li X. Removal of pollutants and accumulation of high-value cell inclusions in a batch reactor containing Rhodopseudomonas for treating real heavy oil refinery wastewater. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2023; 345:118834. [PMID: 37659365 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2023] [Revised: 08/11/2023] [Accepted: 08/13/2023] [Indexed: 09/04/2023]
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Treating wastewater using purple non-sulfur bacteria (PNSB) is an environmentally friendly technique that can simultaneously remove pollutants and lead to the accumulation of high-value cell inclusions. However, no PNSB system for treating heavy oil refinery wastewater (HORW) and recovering high-value cell inclusions has yet been developed. In this study, five batch PNSB systems dominated by Rhodopseudomonas were used to treat real HORW for 186 d. The effects of using different hydraulic retention times (HRT), sludge retention times (SRT), trace element solutions, phosphate loads, and influent loads were investigated, and the bacteriochlorophyll, carotenoid, and coenzyme Q10 concentrations were determined. The community structure and quantity of Rhodopseudomonas in the systems were determined using a high-sequencing technique and quantitative polymerase chain reaction technique. The long-term results indicated that phosphate was the limiting factor for treating HORW in the PNSB reactor. The soluble chemical oxygen demand (SCOD) removal rates were 67.03% and 85.26% without and with phosphate added, respectively, and the NH4+-N removal rates were 32.18% and 89.22%, respectively. The NO3--N concentration in the effluent was stable at 0-3 mg/L with or without phosphate added. Adding phosphate increased the Rhodopseudomonas relative abundance and number by 13.21% and 41.61%, respectively, to 57.35% and 8.52 × 106 gene copies/μL, respectively. The SRT was the limiting factor for SCOD removal, and the bacteria concentration was the limiting factor for nitrogen removal. Once the inflow load had been increased, the total nitrogen (TN) removal rate increased as the HRT increased. Maximum TN removal rates of 64.46%, 68.06%, 73.89%, 82.15%, and 89.73% were found at HRT of 7, 10, 13, 16, and 19 d, respectively. The highest bacteriochlorophyll, carotenoid, and coenzyme Q10 concentrations were 2.92, 4.99, and 4.53 mg/L, respectively. This study provided a simple and efficient method for treating HORW and reutilizing resources, providing theoretical support and parameter guidance for the application of Rhodopseudomonas in treating HORW.
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- Yujie Sun
- College of Water Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
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- College of Water Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China.
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- Civil Engineering and Transportation, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, 300401, China.
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Muys M, González Cámara SJ, Derese S, Spiller M, Verliefde A, Vlaeminck SE. Dissolution rate and growth performance reveal struvite as a sustainable nutrient source to produce a diverse set of microbial protein. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 866:161172. [PMID: 36572313 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.161172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2022] [Revised: 12/19/2022] [Accepted: 12/20/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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To provide for the globally increasing demand for proteinaceous food, microbial protein (MP) has the potential to become an alternative food or feed source. Phosphorus (P), on the other hand, is a critical raw material whose global reserves are declining. Growing MP on recovered phosphorus, for instance, struvite obtained from wastewater treatment, is a promising MP production route that could supply protein-rich products while handling P scarcity. The aim of this study was to explore struvite dissolution kinetics in different MP media and characterize MP production with struvite as sole P-source. Different operational parameters, including pH, temperature, contact surface area, and ion concentrations were tested, and struvite dissolution rates were observed between 0.32 and 4.7 g P/L/d and a solubility between 0.23 and 2.22 g P-based struvite/L. Growth rates and protein production of the microalgae Chlorella vulgaris and Limnospira sp. (previously known as Arthrospira sp.), and the purple non‑sulfur bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris on struvite were equal to or higher than growth on conventional potassium phosphate. For aerobic heterotrophic bacteria, two slow-growing communities showed decreased growth on struvite, while the growth was increased for a third fast-growing one. Furthermore, MP protein content on struvite was always comparable to the one obtained when grown on standard media. Together with the low content in metals and micropollutants, these results demonstrate that struvite can be directly applied as an effective nutrient source to produce fast-growing MP, without any previous dissolution step. Combining a high purity recovered product with an efficient way of producing protein results in a strong environmental win-win.
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- Maarten Muys
- Research Group of Sustainable Energy, Air and Water Technology, Department of Bioscience Engineering, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium
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- Research Group of Sustainable Energy, Air and Water Technology, Department of Bioscience Engineering, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium
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- Research Group of Particle and Interfacial Technology, Department of Applied Analytical and Physical Chemistry, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Research Group of Sustainable Energy, Air and Water Technology, Department of Bioscience Engineering, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium; Centre for Advanced Process Technology for Urban Resource Recovery (CAPTURE), Frieda Saeysstraat 1, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
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- Research Group of Particle and Interfacial Technology, Department of Applied Analytical and Physical Chemistry, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000 Ghent, Belgium; Centre for Advanced Process Technology for Urban Resource Recovery (CAPTURE), Frieda Saeysstraat 1, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
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- Research Group of Sustainable Energy, Air and Water Technology, Department of Bioscience Engineering, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium; Centre for Advanced Process Technology for Urban Resource Recovery (CAPTURE), Frieda Saeysstraat 1, 9052 Ghent, Belgium.
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Sun Y, Li X, Liu G. Enhanced pollutants removal and high-value cell inclusions accumulation with Fe 2+ in heavy oil refinery treatment system using Rhodopseudomonas and Pseudomonas. CHEMOSPHERE 2022; 294:133520. [PMID: 35032517 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.133520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2021] [Revised: 12/19/2021] [Accepted: 12/31/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Metal ions has been widely used as a method of improving pollutant removal efficiency in wastewater biological treatment system. In order to enhance pollutants removal and high-value cell inclusions accumulation in heavy oil refinery wastewater treatment systems using PSB, different reactors were built feeding with different Fe2+ concentrations respectively, and run with enriching Rhodopseudomonas and Pseudomonas in the reactors. Solute chemical oxygen demand (SCOD), ammonia (NH4+-N), nitrate nitrogen (NO3--N), nitrous nitrogen (NO2--N), Fe2+, and related cell inclusions were all detected, moreover, microbial community structure and the quantity of Rhodopseudomonas and Pseudomonas were also detected. The results showed that at the optimal dosage of Fe2+ with 20 mg/L, the corresponding removal ratios of solute chemical oxygen demand and ammonia were 73.51% and 92.26%, respectively. The yields of carotenoid, bacteriochlorophyll, and coenzyme Q10 were 11.18, 6.75, and 9.84 mg/g-DCW respectively. Furthermore, with 20 mg/L Fe2+ dosage, the relative abundance and gene number of Rhodopseudomonas were the highest in the system, which were 91.57% and 1.843 × 106 gene copies/μL, while Fe2+ had no obvious effect on the growth of Pseudomonas. The results showed that adding Fe2+ has improved the removal of pollutants and accumulation of high-value cells inclusions, also provided theoretical guidance for the treatment of heavy oil refinery wastewater using PSB.
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- Yujie Sun
- School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, 300401, China
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- School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, 300401, China.
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- School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, 300401, China
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Mata-De-la-Vega JF, Akizuki S, Sakai HD, Cuevas-Rodríguez G. Slaughterhouse wastewater treatment using purple phototrophic bacteria: A comparison between photoheterotrophic and chemoheterotrophic conditions. Biochem Eng J 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bej.2021.108273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Zhen J, Cui Q, Liu X, Yu Z, Wang C, Ni SQ. Unravelling the importance of Ca 2+ and Mg 2+ as essential in anammox culture medium. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2021; 340:125729. [PMID: 34391189 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2021.125729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2021] [Revised: 07/31/2021] [Accepted: 08/04/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The mechanism and nitrogen removal performance of anammox process under different concentrations of Ca2+ and Mg2+ were explored from the perspective of molecular biology analysis based on the metabolic changes of the second messenger cyclic diguanylate (c-di-GMP). After 100-day operation, reactor with 98 mg/L Ca2+ and 30 mg/L Mg2+ achieved a higher anammox performance with an average total nitrogen (TN) removal efficiency of 85.8%. Under the Mg2+concentration of 30 mg/L, a higher Ca2+ could accelerate anammox process by promoting the amplification of Candidatus Brocadia (0.62%) and production of Diguanylate cyclase (DGC-s: 6.54 × 108 copies/μL DNA) which function was to synthesize c-di-GMP. While under the Ca2+concentration of 49 mg/L, Mg2+ concentration at appropriate rang could promote the degradation process of c-di-GMP. Since Ca2+ had positive linear relationship with TN removal (R2 = 0.96), a higher Ca2+ concentration is recommended in the culture medium. This study provided a potential method for optimization of anammox process.
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- Jianyuan Zhen
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, China; Suzhou Research Institute, Shandong University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China; Shenzhen Research Institute, Shandong University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518052 China
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- Department of Mechanical and Environmental Protection, Shandong Electric Power Engineering Consulting Institute Ltd. (SDEPCI), Jinan, Shandong 250013, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, China
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- Qingdao Spring Water Treatment Co., Ltd., Qingdao, Shandong 266510, China
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- Qingdao Spring Water Treatment Co., Ltd., Qingdao, Shandong 266510, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, China; Suzhou Research Institute, Shandong University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China; Shenzhen Research Institute, Shandong University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518052 China.
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Lu H, Zhang G, He S, Zhao R, Zhu D. Purple non-sulfur bacteria technology: a promising and potential approach for wastewater treatment and bioresources recovery. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2021; 37:161. [PMID: 34436687 DOI: 10.1007/s11274-021-03133-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2021] [Accepted: 08/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Shortage of water, energy, and bioresources in the world has led to the exploration of new technologies that achieve resource recovery from wastewater, which has become a new sustainable trend. Photosynthetic non-sulfur bacteria (PNSB), the most ancient photo microorganism, not only treats different wastewater types, but also generates PNSB cells, which are non-toxic bioresources and containing many value-added products. These bioresources can be used as raw materials in the agricultural, food, and medical industries. Therefore, PNSB or PNSB-based wastewater resource recovery technology can be simultaneously used to treat wastewater and produce useful bioresources. Compared with traditional wastewater treatment, this technology can reduce CO2 emissions, promote the N recovery ratio and prevent residual sludge disposal or generation. After being developed for over half a century, PNSB wastewater resource recovery technology is currently extended towards industrial applications. Here, this technology is comprehensively introduced in terms of (1) PNSB characteristics and metabolism; (2) PNSB wastewater treatment and bioresource recovery efficiency; (3) the relative factors influencing the performance of this technology, including light, oxygen, strains, wastewater types, hydraulic retention time, on wastewater treatment, and resource production; (4) PNSB value-added bioresources and their generation from wastewater; (5) the scale-up history of PNSB technology; (6) Finally, the future perspectives and challenges of this technology were also analysed and summarised.
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- Haifeng Lu
- College of Water Resource and Civil Engineering, China Agriculture University, Beijing, 100083, China.,Key Laboratory of Agricultural Engineering in Structure and Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, 100083, China
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- Key Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology, China Academy of Science, Shuangqing Road, Beijing, 100084, China. .,School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, 300401, China.
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- College of Water Resource and Civil Engineering, China Agriculture University, Beijing, 100083, China.,Key Laboratory of Agricultural Engineering in Structure and Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, 100083, China
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- College of Water Resource and Civil Engineering, China Agriculture University, Beijing, 100083, China.,Key Laboratory of Agricultural Engineering in Structure and Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, 100083, China
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- Nan Tong Ju Yi Cheng Guang Biotechnology Co. LTD., Nantong, 226321, China
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George DM, Vincent AS, Mackey HR. An overview of anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria and their applications in environmental biotechnology for sustainable Resource recovery. BIOTECHNOLOGY REPORTS (AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS) 2020; 28:e00563. [PMID: 33304839 PMCID: PMC7714679 DOI: 10.1016/j.btre.2020.e00563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2020] [Revised: 10/12/2020] [Accepted: 11/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria (APB) are a phylogenetically diverse group of organisms that can harness solar energy for their growth and metabolism. These bacteria vary broadly in terms of their metabolism as well as the composition of their photosynthetic apparatus. Unlike oxygenic phototrophic bacteria such as algae and cyanobacteria, APB can use both organic and inorganic electron donors for light-dependent fixation of carbon dioxide without generating oxygen. Their versatile metabolism, ability to adapt in extreme conditions, low maintenance cost and high biomass yield make APB ideal for wastewater treatment, resource recovery and in the production of high value substances. This review highlights the advantages of APB over algae and cyanobacteria, and their applications in photo-bioelectrochemical systems, production of poly-β-hydroxyalkanoates, single-cell protein, biofertilizers and pigments. The ecology of ABP, their distinguishing factors, various physiochemical parameters governing the production of high-value substances and future directions of APB utilization are also discussed.
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Key Words
- ALA, 5-Aminolevulinic acid
- APB, Anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria
- Anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria (APB)
- BChl, Bacteriochlorophyll
- BES, Bioelectrochemical systems
- BPV, Biophotovoltaic
- BPh, Bacteriopheophytin
- Bacteriochlorophyll (BChl)
- Chl, Chlorophyll
- CoQ10, Coenzyme Q10
- DET, Direct electron transfer
- DNA, Deoxyribonucleic acid
- DO, Dissolved oxygen
- DXP, 1 deoxy-d-xylulose 5-phosphate
- FPP, Farnesyl pyrophosphate
- Fe-S, Iron-Sulfur
- GNSB, Green non sulfur bacteria
- GSB, Green sulfur bacteria
- IPP, Isopentenyl pyrophosphate isomerase
- LED, light emitting diode
- LH2, light-harvesting component II
- MFC, Microbial fuel cell
- MVA, Mevalonate
- PH3B, Poly-3-hydroxybutyrate
- PHA, Poly-β-hydroxyalkanoates
- PHB, Poly-β-hydroxybutyrate
- PNSB, Purple non sulfur bacteria
- PPB, Purple phototrophic bacteria
- PSB, Purple sulfur bacteria
- Pheo-Q, Pheophytin-Quinone
- Photo-BES, Photosynthetic bioelectrochemical systems
- Photo-MFC, Photo microbial fuel cell
- Poly-β-hydroxyalkanoates (PHA)
- Purple phototrophic bacteria (PPB)
- Resource recovery
- RuBisCO, Ribulose-1,5-biphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase
- SCP, Single-cell protein
- SOB, Sulfide oxidizing bacteria
- SRB, Sulfate reducing bacteria
- Single-cell proteins (SCP)
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- Drishya M. George
- College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar
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- College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar
- Biological Sciences Program, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, Qatar
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- College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar
- Division of Sustainable Development, College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar
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Lu H, Wang X, Hu S, Han T, He S, Zhang G, He M, Lin X. Bioeffect of static magnetic field on photosynthetic bacteria: Evaluation of bioresources production and wastewater treatment efficiency. WATER ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH : A RESEARCH PUBLICATION OF THE WATER ENVIRONMENT FEDERATION 2020; 92:1131-1141. [PMID: 32056340 DOI: 10.1002/wer.1308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2019] [Revised: 01/31/2020] [Accepted: 02/09/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Photosynthetic bacteria (PSB) technology is a promising method for biomass, protein, pigments, and other value-added substances generation from wastewater. However, the above bioresources production efficiency is relatively low. In this work, a static magnetic field (SMF) was used to promote bioresources production. Results showed that SMF had positive effects on value-added substances production. With 0.35 Tesla (T) SMF, the PSB biomass, protein, carotenoids, and bacteriochlorophyll concentration were promoted by 31.1%, 22.6%, 56.7%, and 73.1% compared with the control group, respectively. Biomass yield finally reached 0.58 g biomass/g COD removal, which was promoted by 37.1%. The doubling time was shortened by 37.9% in 0.35 T group, showing that SMF can promote cell growth. With 0.35 T SMF, the intracellular NADH dehydrogenase and ATP synthase activities concentration increased by 23.4% and 29.1%, respectively, thus increased the ATP content by 38.0%. Succinic dehydrogenase activity concentration greatly increased by 609.0% at 48 hr, which potentially accelerated the tricarboxylic acid cycle and COD degradation as well as enhanced biomass production. PRACTITIONER POINTS: SMF promoted PSB bioresource production during wastewater treatment processing. Biomass, protein, carotenoids, and Bchl concentration were promoted by 31.1%, 22.6%, 56.7%, and 73.1%, respectively. PSB yield of 0.35 T group was promoted by 37.1% compared with the control group. SDH concentration of 0.35 T was promoted by 609.0% compared with the control group. Increased NADH and ATP synthase activity concentration by SMF enhanced energy metabolism.
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- Haifeng Lu
- College of Water Resource and Civil Engineering, China Agriculture University, Beijing, China
- State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining, Beijing, China
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- College of Water Resource and Civil Engineering, China Agriculture University, Beijing, China
- State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining, Beijing, China
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- College of Water Resource and Civil Engineering, China Agriculture University, Beijing, China
- State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining, Beijing, China
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- College of Water Resource and Civil Engineering, China Agriculture University, Beijing, China
- State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining, Beijing, China
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- College of Water Resource and Civil Engineering, China Agriculture University, Beijing, China
- State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining, Beijing, China
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- School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, China
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- College of Water Resource and Civil Engineering, China Agriculture University, Beijing, China
- State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining, Beijing, China
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- College of Water Resource and Civil Engineering, China Agriculture University, Beijing, China
- State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining, Beijing, China
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Lu H, Peng M, Zhang G, Song H, Yang A, Zhang Y. Biokinetic and biotransformation of nitrogen during photosynthetic bacteria wastewater treatment. ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY 2020; 41:1888-1895. [PMID: 30507361 DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2018.1551433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2018] [Accepted: 11/16/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Photosynthetic bacteria (PSB) show a strong potential to degrade pollutants and meanwhile produce valuable biomass, thus realising both wastewater treatment and nutrient recovery. This paper detailed the study of nitrogen distribution forms, biokinetics and transformation during PSB wastewater treatment. The results showed that the total nitrogen (TN) and ammonium (NH4+) removal reached 90.5% and 95.3%, respectively. The nitrogen removal and biomass production fit a quadratic and a cubic regression equation with an R2 of 0.9793 and 0.9730, respectively. Mass balance showed that the influent nitrogen was transformed into valuable PSB cells (63.2%), gaseous N2 (26.9%) and residual NH4+, nitrate (NO3-) and organic nitrogen in the effluent (8.9%). In addition, 53.0% of the influent nitrogen was bio-transformed to protein nitrogen. Excellent nitrogen resource recovery was thus achieved.
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- Haifeng Lu
- College of Water Resource and Civil Engineering, China Agriculture University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Engineering in Structure and Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- School of Environment and Natural Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- School of Environment and Natural Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- School of Environment and Natural Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- School of Environment and Natural Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- College of Water Resource and Civil Engineering, China Agriculture University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Engineering in Structure and Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- Agricultural Engineering Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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Capson-Tojo G, Batstone DJ, Grassino M, Vlaeminck SE, Puyol D, Verstraete W, Kleerebezem R, Oehmen A, Ghimire A, Pikaar I, Lema JM, Hülsen T. Purple phototrophic bacteria for resource recovery: Challenges and opportunities. Biotechnol Adv 2020; 43:107567. [PMID: 32470594 DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2020.107567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2020] [Revised: 05/11/2020] [Accepted: 05/14/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Sustainable development is driving a rapid focus shift in the wastewater and organic waste treatment sectors, from a "removal and disposal" approach towards the recovery and reuse of water, energy and materials (e.g. carbon or nutrients). Purple phototrophic bacteria (PPB) are receiving increasing attention due to their capability of growing photoheterotrophically under anaerobic conditions. Using light as energy source, PPB can simultaneously assimilate carbon and nutrients at high efficiencies (with biomass yields close to unity (1 g CODbiomass·g CODremoved-1)), facilitating the maximum recovery of these resources as different value-added products. The effective use of infrared light enables selective PPB enrichment in non-sterile conditions, without competition with other phototrophs such as microalgae if ultraviolet-visible wavelengths are filtered. This review reunites results systematically gathered from over 177 scientific articles, aiming at producing generalized conclusions. The most critical aspects of PPB-based production and valorisation processes are addressed, including: (i) the identification of the main challenges and potentials of different growth strategies, (ii) a critical analysis of the production of value-added compounds, (iii) a comparison of the different value-added products, (iv) insights into the general challenges and opportunities and (v) recommendations for future research and development towards practical implementation. To date, most of the work has not been executed under real-life conditions, relevant for full-scale application. With the savings in wastewater discharge due to removal of organics, nitrogen and phosphorus as an important economic driver, priorities must go to using PPB-enriched cultures and real waste matrices. The costs associated with artificial illumination, followed by centrifugal harvesting/dewatering and drying, are estimated to be 1.9, 0.3-2.2 and 0.1-0.3 $·kgdry biomass-1. At present, these costs are likely to exceed revenues. Future research efforts must be carried out outdoors, using sunlight as energy source. The growth of bulk biomass on relatively clean wastewater streams (e.g. from food processing) and its utilization as a protein-rich feed (e.g. to replace fishmeal, 1.5-2.0 $·kg-1) appears as a promising valorisation route.
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- Gabriel Capson-Tojo
- Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia; CRETUS Institute, Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
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- Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.
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- Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.
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- Research Group of Sustainable Energy, Air and Water Technology, Department of Bioscience Engineering, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020 Antwerpen, Belgium.
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- Department of Chemical and Environmental Technology, ESCET, Rey Juan Carlos University, Móstoles, Spain.
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- Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology (CMET), Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000 Gent, Belgium; Avecom NV, Industrieweg 122P, 9032 Wondelgem, Belgium.
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- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Julianalaan 67, 2628 BC Delft, the Netherlands.
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- School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal.
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- School of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.
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- CRETUS Institute, Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
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- Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.
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Enhancement of photosynthetic bacteria biomass production and wastewater treatment efficiency by zero-valent iron nanoparticles. J Biosci Bioeng 2020; 130:306-310. [PMID: 32386822 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiosc.2020.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2020] [Revised: 04/07/2020] [Accepted: 04/13/2020] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Photosynthetic bacteria (PSB) wastewater treatment is a novel technology for wastewater purification and resources recovery but is restricted by low efficiency. This paper applied zero-valent iron nanoparticles (Fe0 NPs) to enhance its performance. Results showed that 20 mg/L Fe0 NPs under light-anaerobic condition significantly increased the PSB biomass production and wastewater chemical oxygen demand removal by 122% and 164.3%, and shortened the time required for wastewater purification by 33%; these effects were far more better than the addition of Fe2+. The mechanism was because the addition of Fe0 NPs promoted the intracellular ATP content and pigments (carotenoid and bacteriochlorophyll) contents, and up-regulated dehydrogenase and succinate dehydrogenase activity; the increase rate reached 38.7%, 39.6%, 22.0%, 23.9% and 218.2%, respectively.
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Chen J, Wei J, Ma C, Yang Z, Li Z, Yang X, Wang M, Zhang H, Hu J, Zhang C. Photosynthetic bacteria-based technology is a potential alternative to meet sustainable wastewater treatment requirement? ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL 2020; 137:105417. [PMID: 32120141 DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2019.105417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2019] [Revised: 11/22/2019] [Accepted: 12/11/2019] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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A paradigm shift is underway in wastewater treatment from pollution removal to resource or energy recovery. However, conventional activated sludge (CAS) as the core technology of wastewater treatment is confronted with severe challenges on high energy consumption, sludge disposal and inevitable greenhouse gas emission, which are posing a serious impact on the current wastewater industry. It is urgent to find new alternative methods to remedy these defects. Photosynthetic bacteria (PSB) have flexible metabolic modes and high tolerance, which enhance the removal of nutrients, heavy metals and organic contaminants efficiency in different wastewater. The unique phototrophic growth of PSB breaks the restriction of nutrient metabolism in the CAS system. Recent studies have shown that PSB-based technologies can not only achieve the recovery of nutrient and energy, but also improve the degradation efficiency of refractory substances. If the application parameters can be determined, there will be great prospects and economic effects. This review summarizes the research breakthroughs and application promotion of PSB-based wastewater treatment technology in recent years. Comparing discussed the superiority and inferiority from the perspective of application range, performance differences and recovery possibility. Pathways involved in the nutrient substance and the corresponding influencing parameters are also described in detail. The mode of PSB biodegradation processes presented a promising alternative for new wastewater treatment scheme. In the future, more mechanical and model studies, deterministic operating parameters, revolutionary process design is need for large-scale industrial promotion of PSB-based wastewater treatment.
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- Jiaqi Chen
- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China; Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control (Hunan University), Ministry of Education, Changsha 410082, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China; Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control (Hunan University), Ministry of Education, Changsha 410082, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China; Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control (Hunan University), Ministry of Education, Changsha 410082, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China; Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control (Hunan University), Ministry of Education, Changsha 410082, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China; Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control (Hunan University), Ministry of Education, Changsha 410082, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China; Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control (Hunan University), Ministry of Education, Changsha 410082, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China; Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control (Hunan University), Ministry of Education, Changsha 410082, China
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- Qinglin Environmental Protection Co. Ltd., Ningbo 315000, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China; Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control (Hunan University), Ministry of Education, Changsha 410082, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China; Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control (Hunan University), Ministry of Education, Changsha 410082, China.
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Cao K, Zhi R, Zhang G. Photosynthetic bacteria wastewater treatment with the production of value-added products: A review. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2020; 299:122648. [PMID: 31889604 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122648] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2019] [Revised: 12/15/2019] [Accepted: 12/17/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Wastewater resource recovery can generate environmental and economic benefits; especially, value-added substance recovery from wastewater can create profits. Photosynthetic bacteria (PSB) can produce protein, coenzyme Q10, 5-ALA, carotenoids, bacteriochlorin, and polyhydroxyalkanoates while treating wastewaters. This review consists of four parts: (1) PSB wastewater treatment, including influence factors and enhancement methods for value-added substances production; (2) downstream processing, including cell separation from effluent, extraction of value-added substances, and purification; (3) comparison among different wastewater resource recovery technologies and brief economic analysis; (4) future development. The focus of this review is the whole procedure of PSB value-added substance production from wastewater. Recent progress of theoretical researches, practical researches and economic issues were systematically summarized and critically analyzed with the scope of promoting PSB technology from concept to practice.
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- Kefan Cao
- School of Environment and Natural Resources, Renmin University of China, 59 Zhongguancun Street, Beijing 100872, China
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- School of Environment and Natural Resources, Renmin University of China, 59 Zhongguancun Street, Beijing 100872, China
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- School of Energy & Environmental Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Beichen District, Tianjin 300130, China.
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Lee YJ, Lei Z. Microalgal-bacterial aggregates for wastewater treatment: A mini-review. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biteb.2019.100199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Lu H, Dong S, Zhang G, Han T, Zhang Y, Li B. Enhancing the auto-flocculation of photosynthetic bacteria to realize biomass recovery in brewery wastewater treatment. ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY 2019; 40:2147-2156. [PMID: 29421961 DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2018.1439107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2017] [Accepted: 02/06/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Photosynthetic bacteria (PSB) wastewater treatment technology can simultaneously realize wastewater purification and biomass production. The produced biomass contains high value-added products, which can be used in medical and agricultural industry. However, because of the small size and high electronegativity, PSB are hard to be collected from wastewater, which hampers the commercialization of PSB-based industrial processes. Auto-flocculation is a low cost, energy saving, non-toxic biomass collection method for microbiology. In this work, the influence factors with their optimal levels and mechanism for enhancing the auto-flocculation of PSB were investigated in pure cultivation medium. Then PSB auto-flocculation performance in real brewery wastewater was probed. Results showed that Na+ concentration, pH and light intensity were three crucial factors except the initial inoculum sizes and temperature. In the pure medium cultivation system, the optimal condition for PSB auto-flocculation was as follows: pH was 9.5, inoculum size was 420 mg l-1, Na+ concentration was 0.067 mol l-1, light intensity was 5000 lux, temperature was 30°C. Under the optimal condition, the auto-flocculation ratio and biomass recovery reached 85.0% and 1488 mg l-1, which improved by 1.67-fold and 2.14-fold compared with the PSB enrichment cultivation conditions, respectively. Mechanism analysis showed that the protein/polysaccharides ratio and absolute Zeta potential value had a liner relationship. For the brewery wastewater treatment, under the above optimal condition, the chemical oxygen demand removal reached 94.3% with the auto-flocculation ratio and biomass recovery of 89.6% and 1510 mg l-1, which increased 2.75-fold and 2.77-fold, respectively.
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- Haifeng Lu
- a College of Water Resource and Civil Engineering, China Agriculture University , Beijing , China
- b Ministry of Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Engineering in Structure and Environment , Beijing , China
- c Beijing Engineering Research Center on Animal Healthy Environment , Beijing , China
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- d State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource & Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology , Harbin , China
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- e School of Environment and Natural Resources, Renmin University of China , Beijing , China
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- a College of Water Resource and Civil Engineering, China Agriculture University , Beijing , China
- b Ministry of Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Engineering in Structure and Environment , Beijing , China
- c Beijing Engineering Research Center on Animal Healthy Environment , Beijing , China
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- a College of Water Resource and Civil Engineering, China Agriculture University , Beijing , China
- b Ministry of Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Engineering in Structure and Environment , Beijing , China
- c Beijing Engineering Research Center on Animal Healthy Environment , Beijing , China
- f Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Urbana , IL , USA
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- a College of Water Resource and Civil Engineering, China Agriculture University , Beijing , China
- b Ministry of Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Engineering in Structure and Environment , Beijing , China
- c Beijing Engineering Research Center on Animal Healthy Environment , Beijing , China
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Lu H, Zhang G, Zheng Z, Meng F, Du T, He S. Bio-conversion of photosynthetic bacteria from non-toxic wastewater to realize wastewater treatment and bioresource recovery: A review. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2019; 278:383-399. [PMID: 30683503 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.01.070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2018] [Revised: 01/12/2019] [Accepted: 01/18/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Generating or recycling water and resources from wastewater other than just treating wastewater is one of the most popular trends worldwide. Photosynthetic bacteria (PSB) wastewater treatment and resource recovery technology is one of the most potential methods. PSBs are non-toxic and contain lots of value-added products that can be utilized in the agricultural and food industries. They are effective to degrade pollutants and synthesize useful biomass, thus realizing wastewater treatment, bioresource production, and eliminating waste sludge. If all the nutrients in wastewaters could be bio-converted by PSB, then pollutant reductions and economic benefits would be achieved. This review paper firstly describes and summarizes this technology, including PSBs classification, metabolism, and the market application. The feasibility, technical procedures, bioreactors, pollutant removal, and bioresource production are also summarized, compared and evaluated. Issues that concern the advantages and industrialization of this technologies at the plant scale are also discussed.
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- Haifeng Lu
- College of Water Resource and Civil Engineering, China Agriculture University, Beijing 100083, China; Key Laboratory of Agricultural Engineering in Structure and Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100083, China.
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- School of Environment and Natural Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China.
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- Yantai Research Institute, China Agriculture University, Yantai 264000, China
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- School of Environment and Natural Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China
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- College of Water Resource and Civil Engineering, China Agriculture University, Beijing 100083, China; Key Laboratory of Agricultural Engineering in Structure and Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100083, China
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- College of Water Resource and Civil Engineering, China Agriculture University, Beijing 100083, China; Key Laboratory of Agricultural Engineering in Structure and Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100083, China
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Alloul A, Wuyts S, Lebeer S, Vlaeminck SE. Volatile fatty acids impacting phototrophic growth kinetics of purple bacteria: Paving the way for protein production on fermented wastewater. WATER RESEARCH 2019; 152:138-147. [PMID: 30665160 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2018.12.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2018] [Revised: 12/02/2018] [Accepted: 12/21/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Nutrient losses in our food chain severely surpass our planetary boundaries. Resource recovery can contribute to mitigation, for instance through converting wastewater resources to microbial protein for animal feed. Wastewater typically holds a complex mixture of organics, posing a challenge to selectively produce heterotrophic biomass. Ensuring the product's quality could be achieved by anaerobic generation of volatile fatty acids (VFAs) followed by photoheterotrophic production of purple non-sulfur bacteria (PNSB) with infrared light. This study aimed to determine the most suitable PNSB culture for VFA conversion and map the effect of acetate, propionate, butyrate and a VFA mixture on growth and biomass yield. Six cultures were screened in batch: (i) Rhodopseudomonas palustris, (ii) Rhodobacter sphaeroides, (iii) Rhodospirillum rubrum, (iv) a 3-species synthetic community (i+ii+iii), (v) a community enriched on VFA holding Rb. capsulatus, and (vi) Rb. capsulatus (isolate 'v'). The VFA mixture elevated growth rates with a factor 1.3-2.5 compared to individual VFA. Rb. capsulatus showed the highest growth rates: 1.8-2.2 d-1 (enriched) and 2.3-3.8 d-1 (isolated). In a photobioreactor (PBR) inoculated with the Rb. capsulatus enrichment, decreasing sludge retention time (SRT) yielded lower biomass concentrations, yet increased productivities, reaching 1.7 g dry weight (DW) L-1 d-1, the highest phototrophic rate reported thus far, and a growth rate of up to 5 d-1. PNSB represented 26-57% of the community and the diversity index was low (3-7), with a dominance of Rhodopseudomonas at long SRT and Rhodobacter at short SRT. The biomass yield for all cultures, in batch and reactor cultivation, approached 1 g CODBiomass g-1 CODRemoved. An economic estimation for a two-stage approach on brewery wastewater (load 2427 kg COD d-1) showed that 0.5 d SRT allowed for the lowest production cost (€ 10 kg-1 DW; equal shares for capex and opex). The findings strengthen the potential for a novel two-stage approach for resource recovery from industrial wastewater, enabling high-rate PNSB production.
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- Abbas Alloul
- Research Group of Sustainable Energy, Air and Water Technology, Department of Bioscience Engineering, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020, Antwerpen, Belgium
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- Research Group of Environmental Ecology & Microbiology, Department of Bioscience Engineering, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020, Antwerpen, Belgium
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- Research Group of Environmental Ecology & Microbiology, Department of Bioscience Engineering, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020, Antwerpen, Belgium
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- Research Group of Sustainable Energy, Air and Water Technology, Department of Bioscience Engineering, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020, Antwerpen, Belgium.
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Meng F, Yang A, Wang H, Zhang G, Li X, Zhang Y, Zou Z. One-step treatment and resource recovery of high-concentration non-toxic organic wastewater by photosynthetic bacteria. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2018; 251:121-127. [PMID: 29274518 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2017.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2017] [Revised: 11/29/2017] [Accepted: 12/02/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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In order to achieve simple pollutant removal and simultaneous resource recovery in high-COD-non-toxic wastewater treatment, a one-step photosynthetic bacteria (PSB) method was established using batch study experiment. The effluent COD met the national discharge standard, and biomass with rich protein and high-value substances was efficiently produced. It eliminated the demand of post-treatment for conventional PSB treatment. Results showed that Rhodopseudomonas effectively treated brewery wastewater and achieved biomass proliferation. Yeast extract was the best additive for PSB growth and the effluent COD was below 80 mg/L with 400 mg/L yeast extract, meeting the national discharge standard. In addition, the PSB biomass increased by 2.6 times, and the cells were rich in protein, polysaccharide, carotenoids, bacteriochlorophyll and coenzyme Q10, reaching 420.9, 177.6, 2.53, 10.75 and 38.6 mg/g respectively. This work demonstrated the great potential of PSB for high-COD non-toxic wastewater treatment in one-step process.
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- Fan Meng
- School of Environment and Natural Resource, Renmin University of China, 59 Zhongguanchun Street, Beijing 100872, China
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- School of Environment and Natural Resource, Renmin University of China, 59 Zhongguanchun Street, Beijing 100872, China
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- School of Environment and Natural Resource, Renmin University of China, 59 Zhongguanchun Street, Beijing 100872, China
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- School of Environment and Natural Resource, Renmin University of China, 59 Zhongguanchun Street, Beijing 100872, China.
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- School of Environment and Natural Resource, Renmin University of China, 59 Zhongguanchun Street, Beijing 100872, China
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- Shandong Public Holdings Tongtai Environment Limited, Jinin 277200, China
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- Shandong Public Holdings Tongtai Environment Limited, Jinin 277200, China
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Lu H, Han T, Zhang G, Ma S, Zhang Y, Li B, Cao W. Natural light-micro aerobic condition for PSB wastewater treatment: a flexible, simple, and effective resource recovery wastewater treatment process. ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY 2018; 39:74-82. [PMID: 28278105 DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2017.1296027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2016] [Accepted: 02/11/2017] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Photosynthetic bacteria (PSB) have two sets of metabolic pathways. They can degrade pollutants through light metabolic under light-anaerobic or oxygen metabolic pathways under dark-aerobic conditions. Both metabolisms function under natural light-microaerobic condition, which demands less energy input. This work investigated the characteristics of PSB wastewater treatment process under that condition. Results showed that PSB had very strong adaptability to chemical oxygen demand (COD) concentration; with F/M of 5.2-248.5 mg-COD/mg-biomass, the biomass increased three times and COD removal reached above 91.5%. PSB had both advantages of oxygen metabolism in COD removal and light metabolism in resource recovery under natural light-microaerobic condition. For pollutants' degradation, COD, total organic carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus removal reached 96.2%, 91.0%, 70.5%, and 92.7%, respectively. For resource recovery, 74.2% of C in wastewater was transformed into biomass. Especially, coexistence of light and oxygen promote N recovery ratio to 70.9%, higher than with the other two conditions. Further, 93.7% of N-removed was synthesized into biomass. Finally, CO2 emission reduced by 62.6% compared with the traditional process. PSB wastewater treatment under this condition is energy-saving, highly effective, and environment friendly, and can achieve pollution control and resource recovery.
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- Haifeng Lu
- a College of Water Resource and Civil Engineering , China Agriculture University , Beijing , People's Republic of China
- b Key Laboratory of Agricultural Engineering in Structure and Environment , Ministry of Agriculture , Beijing , People's Republic of China
- c Beijing Engineering Research Center on Animal Healthy Environment , Beijing , People's Republic of China
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- a College of Water Resource and Civil Engineering , China Agriculture University , Beijing , People's Republic of China
- b Key Laboratory of Agricultural Engineering in Structure and Environment , Ministry of Agriculture , Beijing , People's Republic of China
- c Beijing Engineering Research Center on Animal Healthy Environment , Beijing , People's Republic of China
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- d School of Environment and Natural Resources , Renmin University of China , Beijing , People's Republic of China
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- a College of Water Resource and Civil Engineering , China Agriculture University , Beijing , People's Republic of China
- b Key Laboratory of Agricultural Engineering in Structure and Environment , Ministry of Agriculture , Beijing , People's Republic of China
- c Beijing Engineering Research Center on Animal Healthy Environment , Beijing , People's Republic of China
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- e Agricultural Engineering Sciences , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Urbana , IL , USA
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- a College of Water Resource and Civil Engineering , China Agriculture University , Beijing , People's Republic of China
- b Key Laboratory of Agricultural Engineering in Structure and Environment , Ministry of Agriculture , Beijing , People's Republic of China
- c Beijing Engineering Research Center on Animal Healthy Environment , Beijing , People's Republic of China
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- a College of Water Resource and Civil Engineering , China Agriculture University , Beijing , People's Republic of China
- b Key Laboratory of Agricultural Engineering in Structure and Environment , Ministry of Agriculture , Beijing , People's Republic of China
- c Beijing Engineering Research Center on Animal Healthy Environment , Beijing , People's Republic of China
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Zhang J, Zhang Y, Diao N. Combined approach for soybean wastewater chemical oxygen demand reduction using Aspergillus niger pelletization technology. BIOTECHNOL BIOTEC EQ 2016. [DOI: 10.1080/13102818.2016.1262751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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- Jianguo Zhang
- Institute of Food Science and Engineering, School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, P.R.China
- Key Laboratory of Industrial Fermentation Microbiology (Tianjin University of Science & Technology), Ministry of Education, Tianjin, P.R.China
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- Institute of Food Science and Engineering, School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, P.R.China
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- Institute of Food Science and Engineering, School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, P.R.China
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Wen S, Liu H, He H, Luo L, Li X, Zeng G, Zhou Z, Lou W, Yang C. Treatment of anaerobically digested swine wastewater by Rhodobacter blasticus and Rhodobacter capsulatus. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2016; 222:33-38. [PMID: 27697735 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2016.09.102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2016] [Revised: 09/21/2016] [Accepted: 09/25/2016] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Two strains of photosynthetic bacteria, Rhodobacter blasticus and Rhodobacter capsulatus, were used in this work to investigate the feasibility of using photosynthetic bacteria for the treatment of anaerobically digested swine wastewater. The effects of crucial factors which influence the pollutants removal efficiency were also examined. Results showed that anaerobically digested swine wastewater could be treated effectively by photosynthetic bacteria. The treatment efficiency was significantly higher by the mixed photosynthetic bacteria than that by any unitary bacterium. The optimal treatment condition by mixed bacteria was inoculation of 10.0%(v/v) of the two bacteria by 1:1, initial pH of 7.0 and initial chemical oxygen demand of 4800mgL-1. Under these conditions, the removal rate of chemical oxygen demand was 83.3%, which was 19.3% higher than when using Rhodobacter blasticus or 10.6% higher than when using Rhodobacter capsulatus separately. This mixed photosynthetic bacteria achieved high chemical oxygen demand removal and cell yields.
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- Shan Wen
- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, PR China; Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control (Hunan University), Ministry of Education, Changsha 410082, PR China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, PR China; Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control (Hunan University), Ministry of Education, Changsha 410082, PR China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, PR China; Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control (Hunan University), Ministry of Education, Changsha 410082, PR China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, PR China; Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control (Hunan University), Ministry of Education, Changsha 410082, PR China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, PR China; Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control (Hunan University), Ministry of Education, Changsha 410082, PR China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, PR China; Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control (Hunan University), Ministry of Education, Changsha 410082, PR China
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- Hunan Hikee Environmental Technology Co., Ltd., Changsha 410001, PR China
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- Hunan Hikee Environmental Technology Co., Ltd., Changsha 410001, PR China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, PR China; Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control (Hunan University), Ministry of Education, Changsha 410082, PR China; Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Solid Waste Treatment and Recycling, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, PR China.
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Wang H, Zhou Q, Zhang G, Yan G, Lu H, Sun L. A novel PSB-EDI system for high ammonia wastewater treatment, biomass production and nitrogen resource recovery: PSB system. WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY : A JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION ON WATER POLLUTION RESEARCH 2016; 74:616-624. [PMID: 27508366 DOI: 10.2166/wst.2016.254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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A novel process coupling photosynthetic bacteria (PSB) with electrodeionization (EDI) treatment was proposed to treat high ammonia wastewater and recover bio-resources and nitrogen. The first stage (PSB treatment) was used to degrade organic pollutants and accumulate biomass, while the second stage (EDI) was for nitrogen removal and recovery. The first stage was the focus in this study. The results showed that using PSB to transform organic pollutants in wastewater into biomass was practical. PSB could acclimatize to wastewater with a chemical oxygen demand (COD) of 2,300 mg/L and an ammonia nitrogen (NH4(+)-N) concentration of 288-4,600 mg/L. The suitable pH was 6.0-9.0, the average COD removal reached 80%, and the biomass increased by an average of 9.16 times. The wastewater COD removal was independent of the NH4(+)-N concentration. Moreover, the PSB functioned effectively when the inoculum size was only 10 mg/L. The PSB-treated wastewater was then further handled in an EDI system. More than 90% of the NH4(+)-N was removed from the wastewater and condensed in the concentrate, which could be used to produce nitrogen fertilizer. In the whole system, the average NH4(+)-N removal was 94%, and the average NH4(+)-N condensing ratio was 10.0.
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- Hangyao Wang
- School of Environment and Natural Resource, Renmin University of China, 59 Zhongguancun Street, Beijing 100872, China E-mail:
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- Changjiang Water Resources Protection Institute, Wuhan, Hubei 430051, China
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- School of Environment and Natural Resource, Renmin University of China, 59 Zhongguancun Street, Beijing 100872, China E-mail:
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Source Control Technology of Water Pollution, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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- College of Water Resource and Civil Engineering, China Agriculture University, Beijing 100083, China
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- School of Environment and Natural Resource, Renmin University of China, 59 Zhongguancun Street, Beijing 100872, China E-mail:
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