Anaerobic treatment of phenol in wastewater under thermophilic condition

H. H.P. Fang; D. W. Liang; T. Zhang; Y. Liu

doi:10.1016/j.watres.2005.11.025

Anaerobic treatment of phenol in wastewater under thermophilic condition

H. H.P. Fang^*
, D. W. Liang
, T. Zhang
, Y. Liu

^*Corresponding author for this work

The University of Hong Kong
Fudan University

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Abstract

Over 99% of phenol was effectively degraded in an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor at 55°C with 40 h of hydraulic retention time (HRT) for a wastewater containing 630 mg/L of phenol, corresponding to 1500 mg/L of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and a loading rate of 0.9 g-COD/L/d. The maximum specific methanogenic activity (SMA) of the phenol-degrading sludge was 0.09 g-CH₄-COD/g-volatile suspended solids (VSS)/d. Based on 16S rDNA analysis, a total of 21 operational taxonomy units (OTUs) were found in the sludge, of which eight (42.6% of the total population) were related to the sequences in the GenBank with similarity of over 97%, and 13 (79.6%) were affiliated with the known thermophilic species. Additional SMA data and phylogenetic analysis suggest that the degradation pathway of phenol for thermophilic sludge was likely via caproate, instead of benzoate as for the mesophilic sludge.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	427-434
Number of pages	8
Journal	Water Research
Volume	40
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2005.11.025
State	Published - Feb 2006
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

16s rDNA
Anaerobic degradation
Benzoate
Caproate
Phenol
Thermophilic

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