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Biodegradation of o-Cresol by a Pseudomonas spp

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Progress in Clean Energy, Volume 1

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The o-cresol is one of the VOCs toxic compounds, it is used as pharmaceutical intermediates, reagents, custom synthesis and as a solvent, disinfectant and chemical intermediate for a wide variety of products including resins, paints and textiles. Efficient treatment technologies are required to reduce o-cresol concentration in wastewater to acceptable levels because o-cresol is hazardous even at low concentration. Biological treatment methods have been researched to treat o-cresol in wastewater. Several studies have shown that o-cresol can aerobically degraded by a wide variety of microorganisms.

In this study, a series of experiments were performed to examine the effects of the mineral medium composition and the pH on o-cresol removal. In this purpose, o-cresol biodegradation was carried out in a batch reactor containing mixed bacteria; the temperature (30 °C), the stirring velocity (200 r/min), the KH2PO4 concentration (1.5 g/L), the K2HPO4 concentration (2 g/L), and o-cresol concentration (100 mg/L) were kept constants. The initial pH was varied in the range 5–9 and the mineral components were tested in the following concentration ranges: 0–2 g/L for nitrogen sources (NH4Cl, KNO3, and NH4NO3), 0–0.5 g/L for NaCl, and 0–0.2 g/L for MgSO4. Their effects on o-cresol biodegradation and specific growth rate were examined. The shorter biodegradation time of o-cresol was 35.6 h for NH4Cl, NaCl, and MgSO4 concentrations of 1 g/L, 0.3 g/L, and 0.1 g/L, respectively. Maximum specific growth rate (0.33 h−1) and total o-cresol removal (99.99 %) were recorded for an optimal pH value of 8.

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  1. Laboratoire des Sciences du Génie des Procédés Industriels, Faculté de Génie Mécanique et de Génie des Procédés, Université des Sciences et de la Technologie Houari Boumediene, BP 32, El-Alia, Bab ezzouar, Alger, 16111, Algeria

    Adh’ya-eddine Hamitouche, Zoubida Bendjama & Farida Kaouah

  2. Centre de Recherche scientifique et technique en Analyses Physico-Chimiques, BP 248, CRAPC, Alger, Algeria

    Adh’ya-eddine Hamitouche

  3. Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes, Université Rennes 1, CNRS, UMR 6226, Avenue du Général Leclerc, CS 50837, Rennes Cedex 7, 35708, France

    Abdeltif Amrane

  4. Université européenne de Bretagne, Rennes, 35000, France

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ontario, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

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Hamitouche, Ae., Bendjama, Z., Amrane, A., Kaouah, F. (2015). Biodegradation of o-Cresol by a Pseudomonas spp. In: Dincer, I., Colpan, C., Kizilkan, O., Ezan, M. (eds) Progress in Clean Energy, Volume 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16709-1_52

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