Abstract
In an increasingly competitive and demanding world, industrial and population-wise, water has gained an increased value and is more than ever a scarce and valuable resource. As a consequence of civilization development, the variety and amount of industrial chemicals being released into the environment has raised. Indigenous microbial communities in biotreatment processes may not be effective in removing xenobiotic contaminants.This work aims to combine extracted extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) withspecialized degrading strain Rhodococcussp. FP1 for the production of granules capable to degrade 2-fluoropenol-a toxic compound present in several industrial effluents–for further bioreactor bioaugmentation. The strength of the synthetic granules was testedusing a shear stress test. Thisstudy presents a potential application of a recovered resource from wastewater treatment andwillpotentiallyassist the existing industrial processes of wastewater treatment with aerobic granular sludge (AGS).
Original language | English |
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Number of pages | 4 |
Publication status | Published - Mar 2018 |
Event | IWA Biofilms: Granular Sludge Conference - Delft, Netherlands Duration: 18 Mar 2018 → 21 Mar 2018 |
Conference
Conference | IWA Biofilms: Granular Sludge Conference |
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Country/Territory | Netherlands |
City | Delft |
Period | 18/03/18 → 21/03/18 |
Keywords
- Bioaugmentation
- Extracellular polymeric substances;
- Synthetic granules