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The nutritional conditions supporting growth and maximum dye removal by Aspergillus lentulus have been investigated. Initially a composite media containing yeast extract, glucose and mineral components was used and the effect of various components on dye removal was studied. For maximum dye removal (≈100%), ≥0.5% (w/v) glucose and ≥0.25% (w/v) yeast extract were essential. While glucose played an important role in pellet formation, which in turn was important for dye removal, yeast extract contributed towards higher biomass production. Mineral components (except NH4NO3) did not affect dye removal significantly. Next the alternate sources of carbon (molasses, jaggery, starch and sodium acetate) and nitrogen (peptone, urea, ammonium nitrate, sodium nitrate and ammonium chloride) were tested. Among carbon sources, all the sources produced almost complete dye removal in 48 h (more than 97% in 24 h), except sodium acetate (64% in 48 h). All the tested nitrogen sources resulted in >90% dye removal in 48 h. Yeast extract and peptone gave best results with high dye removal rate (9.8 and 8.1 mg/l/h, respectively). However, among the low cost alternates, urea and NH4Cl came out to be suitable sources due to the high uptake capacity of the biomass produced coupled with high dye removal rate in case of NH4Cl. Therefore, a combination of urea and NH4Cl was tested, which produced complete dye removal with a high dye removal rate (10 mg/l/h). Finally the modified composite media containing urea and NH4Cl as nitrogen sources and glucose as carbon source was utilized for effluent treatment. Results indicated that performance of modified composite media was at par with composite media for supporting growth of A. lentulus and dye removal from the textile effluent.
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Kaushik, P., Malik, A. Effect of nutritional conditions on dye removal from textile effluent by Aspergillus lentulus . World J Microbiol Biotechnol 26, 1957–1964 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11274-010-0376-9
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