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Effect of transport phenomena of Cladosporium cladosporioides on decolorization and chemical oxygen demand of distillery spent wash

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The focus of this report is directed towards the influence of transport properties of fermentation broth in degradation and decolorization of distillery spent wash using Cladosporium cladosporioides. Batch experiment was conducted in a bioreactor for 7 days with 250 rpm at 35 °C under optimum bioprocess conditions maintained using control system. Results of the morphological analysis revealed that C. cladosporioides has been observed to form mainly pellets during fermentation under mild agitation. The organism changed from filamentous form to pellet and then breaks, ending with filamentous form. All the models Power law, Bingham plastic, and Herschel–Bulkley fitted the general trend well with high R 2 values ranging from 0.9 to 0.98, indicating shear rate thinning nature of the broth. A maximum decolorization of 72.3 % was achieved with chemical oxygen demand reduction of 74.8 % due to the low viscous and pellet nature of the organism, leading to the transport properties of the fluid. Hence, transport phenomena channalyze the metabolic path way easily and leads to a novel approach for the industries to utilize the spent wash with minimum cost.

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Acknowledgments

This work is the result of Ph.D. work of the first author. The author wishes to express their gratitude for the support extended by management of Bannari Amman Distillery Division, Periyapuliyur, Erode District, and Tamilnadu, India for providing us the spent wash and also soil sample. We wish to express our thanks to the management of Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, India in carrying out the research in Bioprocess Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology. All the authors are cordially wish to express their thanks to the reviews for their valuable suggestions in improving this research work and manuscript. We also thank Foundation for Revitalization of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT), Bangalore, India for the image analysis and Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra, India (ARI)-National Fungal Culture Collection of India (NFCCI) for DNA sequencing report.

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Ravikumar, R. Effect of transport phenomena of Cladosporium cladosporioides on decolorization and chemical oxygen demand of distillery spent wash. Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. 12, 1581–1590 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-014-0520-4

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