Microbial degradation of acetonitrile using a suspended-carrier biofilm process
(2002) In Biotechnology Letters 24(4). p.287-291- Abstract
- A microbial process for the destruction of acetonitrile has been developed. Suitable microorganisms were enriched from activated sludge by cultivation with a high selection pressure when acetonitrile was the sole source of carbon and nitrogen. The process is based on cultivating the microorganisms as a biofilm on plastic carriers. These are utilised in a stirred-tank reactor with continuous feeding of 40-150 mM acetonitrile and an outlet for spent medium. The observed efficiency in the conversion process was from 53-100%, depending on the organic load. To improve the capacity and reliability of the process, a two-step process was developed with two stirred-tank reactors coupled in series. With such an arrangement, conversion efficiencies... (More)
- A microbial process for the destruction of acetonitrile has been developed. Suitable microorganisms were enriched from activated sludge by cultivation with a high selection pressure when acetonitrile was the sole source of carbon and nitrogen. The process is based on cultivating the microorganisms as a biofilm on plastic carriers. These are utilised in a stirred-tank reactor with continuous feeding of 40-150 mM acetonitrile and an outlet for spent medium. The observed efficiency in the conversion process was from 53-100%, depending on the organic load. To improve the capacity and reliability of the process, a two-step process was developed with two stirred-tank reactors coupled in series. With such an arrangement, conversion efficiencies from 92-100% were achieved when the organic load was 2 g acetonitrile l(-1) d(-1) in the first reactor. (Less)
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- Håkansson, Kristina LU and Mattiasson, Bo LU
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- publishing date
- 2002
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- microbial process, destruction, biofilm, acetonitrile, activated sludge
- in
- Biotechnology Letters
- volume
- 24
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 287 - 291
- publisher
- Springer
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- wos:000173702500008
- scopus:0036177696
- ISSN
- 1573-6776
- DOI
- 10.1023/A:1014001823573
- language
- English
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