Effect of tourmaline on denitrification characteristics of hydrogenotrophic bacteria

Wang, Wei; Jiang, Hongyan; Zhu, Guangquan; Song, Xueying; Liu, Xingyu; Qiao, Ya

doi:10.1007/s11356-015-5723-9

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Published: 06 November 2015

Effect of tourmaline on denitrification characteristics of hydrogenotrophic bacteria

Wei Wang¹,
Hongyan Jiang¹,
Guangquan Zhu¹,
Xueying Song¹,
Xingyu Liu¹ &
Ya Qiao¹

Environmental Science and Pollution Research volume 23, pages 4868–4875 (2016)Cite this article

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To improve the denitrification characteristics of anaerobic denitrifying bacteria and obviate the disadvantage of use of explosive hydrogen gas, tourmaline, a polar mineral, was added to the hydrogenotrophic denitrification system in this study. Microbial reduction of nitrate in the presence of tourmaline was evaluated to assess the promotion effect of tourmaline on nitrate biodegradation. The experiment results demonstrated that tourmaline speeded up the cultivation process of bacteria from 65 to 36 days. After domestication of the bacteria, nitrate (50 mg NO₃ ⁻–N L⁻¹) was completely removed within 3 days in the combined tourmaline–bacteria system, and the generated nitrite was also removed within 8 days. The reduction rate in this system is higher relative to that in the bacteria system alone. Efficient removal of nitrate by tourmaline-supported anaerobic bacteria (without external hydrogen input) indicated that tourmaline might act as the sole hydrogen donor to sustain autotrophic denitrification. Besides the production of hydrogen, the promoted activity of anaerobic denitrifying bacteria might be caused by the change of water properties, e.g., the pH of aqueous solutions was altered to about 8.0 and the oxidation–reduction potential decreased by 62 % in the tourmaline system. The distinctive effects of tourmaline on bacteria were related to its electric properties.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31200396) and the Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin (No. 14JCQNJC08500).

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Wang, W., Jiang, H., Zhu, G. et al. Effect of tourmaline on denitrification characteristics of hydrogenotrophic bacteria. Environ Sci Pollut Res 23, 4868–4875 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-015-5723-9

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Received: 22 July 2015
Accepted: 30 October 2015
Published: 06 November 2015
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-015-5723-9

Keywords

Tourmaline
Hydrogenotrophic bacteria
Nitrate
Denitrification
Anaerobic