The direct discharge of palm oil mill effluent (POME) wastewater causes serious environmental pollution due to its high chemical oxygen demand (COD) and biochemical oxygen demand (BOD). Traditional ways for POME treatment have both economical and environmental disadvantages. In this study, a membrane anaerobic system (MAS) was used as an alternative, cost effective method for treating POME. Six...

The reductive dechlorination of tetrachloroethene (PCE) and trichloroethene (TCE) at contaminated sites often results in the accumulation of cis-1,2-dichloroethene (DCE) and vinyl chloride (VC), rather than the nonhazardous end product ethene. This accumulation may be caused by the absence of appropriate microorganisms, insufficient supply of donor substrate, or reaction kinetic limitations. He...

The paper considers factors that determine the oxygen balance in extreme climate waste stabilisation ponds during the critical spring warm-up period. At this time BOD load on the pond is a maximum, due to accumulation of wastewater under the ice during the winter. The paper describes the operation of a typical cold climate WSP and the events leading to a balanced steady state system as spring d...

Westudy certain classical basicmodels for bioreactor simulation in case of batchmodewith decay. It is shown that in many cases the two-dimensional differential system describing the dynamics of the substrate and biomass concentrations can be reduced to an algebraic equation for the biomass together with a single differential equation for the substrate. Then from an analogy with the Henri–Michae...

Effects of three ions, Mn2+, Cu2+ and Zn2+ on biological treatment of pharmaceutical wastewaterby a functional strain Xhhh were investigated. Through orthogonal tests, Cu2+ was determined to be the most important factor influencing Xhhh biodegradation performance. Biodegradation kinetic experiments demonstrated that with Cu+ concentration at about 200 mg l(-1), the maximum of specific growth ra...

The present study was aimed to evaluate the suitability of agro-wastes and crude vegetable oils for cost-effective production poly-?-hydroxybutyrate (PHB), growth kinetics PHB in Alcaligenes faecalis RZS4 Pseudomonas sp. RZS1 with these carbon substrates biodegradation accumulated by cultures. accumulates higher amounts corn (79.90% dry cell mass) rice straw (66.22% medium respectively. kinetic...

This work presents a multi-route, non-structural kinetic model for interpretation of ethanol fermentation of lactose using a recombinant flocculent Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain expressing both the LAC4 (coding for beta-galactosidase) and LAC12 (coding for lactose permease) genes of Kluyveromyces lactis. In this model, the values of different metabolic pathways are calculated applying a modif...