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Automotive industry wastewater treatment by mixture of enzymes

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The industrial paintshop wastewater from an automotive industry which contained nitrogen organic compounds was investigated in the study. Chemical oxygen demand (COD) values and degradation processes were measured and characterized by HPLC and GC–MS analysis. It was also observed by HPLC method that organic compounds with a high content of organic nitrogen were successfully degraded by the mixture of enzymes. The COD removal efficiency achieved in the case of unpretreated water was approximately 48 %. However, the COD removal efficiency increased up to 76 % when a mixture of enzymes was used for the wastewater pretreatment.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the scientific grant agency of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic (ME SR) and of Slovak Academy of Sciences VEGA project No. 1/0589/12. This contribution is also the result of the project implementation Centre of Excellence of Integrated Flood Protection of Territory ITMS 26240120004 supported by the Research and Development Operational Program funded by the ERDF. TM acknowledge the financial support of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (Grantová schéma na podporu excelentných tímov mladých výskumníkov v podmienkach STU v Bratislave: Výskyt liečiv, drog a rezistentných typov baktérií v odpadových vodách zo zdravotných zariadení na Slovensku a ich možné odstránenie pomocou progresívnych procesov).

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  1. Department of Environmental Engineering, Institute of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Radlinského 9, 812 37, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Tomáš Mackuľak, Igor Bodík, Miloslav Drtil & Milota Faberová

  2. Department of Microbiology and Virology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynská dolina B-2, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Miroslava Smolinská

  3. Výskumný ústav pre ropu a uhľovodíkové plyny (VÚRUP), a.s., Vlčie Hrdlo, 820 01, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Alžbeta Takáčová

  4. Department of Inorganic Technology, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Radlinského 9, 812 37, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Miroslav Gál

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Mackuľak, T., Bodík, I., Smolinská, M. et al. Automotive industry wastewater treatment by mixture of enzymes. Monatsh Chem 147, 159–164 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00706-015-1579-4

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