Capacity of Marine Microalga Tetraselmis suecica to Biodegrade Phenols in Aqueous Media

Phenolic compounds are toxic and dangerous to the environment human health. Although removal of phenols their derivatives is very difficult, it has been achieved by applying some biological processes. The capacity microalga remove phenolic demonstrated; however, few reports these in a mixture have published. phenol, p-cresol o-cresol was performed batch kinetics at 50 100 mg L−1, simultaneous degradation carried out 40 L−1 using marine Tetraselmis suecica. kinetic study for 192 h. For concentrations compound consumption efficiencies greater than 100% 85%, respectively, were obtained, up 73.6% mixture. results obtained indicate that carries process oxidation organic matter compounds, mineralizing 31.4% CO2 Biological treatments T. suecica can be considered feasible treat effluents with similar those present study.