BACKGROUND High salinity (1-10% w/v) of tannery wastewater makes it difficult to be treated by conventional biological treatment. Salt tolerant microbes can adapt to these saline conditions and degrade the organics in saline wastewater. RESULTS Four salt tolerant bacterial strains isolated from marine and tannery saline wastewater samples were identified as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Bacillus fl...

I A simple, cheap and reliable method of measuring rheological properties of massecuites and molasses is described. This involves measuring the head loss across an orifice for a given flow rate. Comparisons between results obtained with the orifice viscometer and a pipeline viscometer are presented. INTRODUCTION I The measurement of the rheological properties of massecuites and molasses is impo...

Due to persistent difficulties experienced under routine conditions of analysis, considerable attention has been given in this laboratory to determining a satisfactory alternative procedure to the double polarisation method for sucrose in final molasses. For some time the Eynon~Lane technique has been employed for measuring the reducing sugars and re. ducing sugars plus inverted sucrose in fina...

Background & Aims of the Study: One of the most important environmental pollutants in the alcohol industry is sugar beet molasses. The wastewater of these industries causes the pollution of soil, surface water, and underground water. Iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles have attracted much consideration due to their unique properties, such as superparamagnetism, surface-to-volume ratio, greater su...

Molasses is a significant by-product of sugar beet or sugar cane refining industry. In this work, the effects of storage temperature and packaging on the contents of free amino acids (AAs) in sugar beet and sugar cane molasses after freeze drying were inquired. The effect of different variables such as, temperature (4 and 25˚C) and light (Metallized polypropylene container and Normal polypropyl...

This work investigated the production of the fungi Isaria fumosorosea and Isaria farinosa in biphasic fermentation using agro-industrial products and residues. Combinations of natural liquid substrates, alternative to the complete medium and potato dextrose medium, were evaluated. The best liquid media were sugarcane molasses + rice broth, rice broth + yeast and sugarcane molasses + yeast + ric...