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Pedro Cisterna-Osorio and Patricia Arancibia-Avila
Fats and oils are the most common pollutants in wastewater, and are usually eliminated through physical processes in wastewater treatment plants, generating large amounts of fats and residual oils that are difficult to dispose of and handle. The degradat...
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Carla Escapa, Ricardo N. Coimbra, Teresa Neuparth, Tiago Torres, Miguel M. Santos and Marta Otero
In this work, zebrafish embryo bioassays were performed to assess the efficiency of microalgae in the removal of acetaminophen from water. Chlorella sorokiniana (CS), Chlorella vulgaris (CV) and Scenedesmus obliquus (SO) were the strains used for water t...
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Lebohang E. Koloti, Rosina Nkuna and Tonderayi S. Matambo
This study provides a theoretical baseline on the application of chemical and microbiological indicators as rapid system performance monitoring tools that will allow for timely corrective measures to maintain and improve the bioremediation performance of...
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César Julio Cáceda Quiroz, Gabriela de Lourdes Fora Quispe, Milena Carpio Mamani, Gisela July Maraza Choque and Elisban Juani Sacari Sacari
Cyanide (CN) is a toxic environmental pollutant generated by various industrial activities, necessitating the application of bioremediation techniques for its degradation. Biodegradation is a more cost-effective and environmentally friendly technique wit...
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María José Alvarado-López, Sofía E. Garrido-Hoyos, María Elena Raynal-Gutiérrez, Elie G. El-Kassis, Víctor M. Luque-Almagro and Genoveva Rosano-Ortega
A native cyanide-degrading bacterial consortium was isolated from goldmine tailing sediments. Mine tailings are toxic effluents due to their metal?cyanide complexes. The bacterial consortium was able to degrade an initial sodium cyanide concentration ran...
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Marcin Zielinski, Marta Kisielewska, Marcin Debowski, Paulina Rusanowska, Anna Nowicka and Magda Dudek
Increasing worldwide milk manufacturing and dairy processing resulted in producing more effluents, and thus effective management of wastewater is now the most important issue. This study used a new design of a pilot plant-scale hybrid anaerobic labyrinth...
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Narjes J. Alamer, Munirah F. Aldayel and Ashraf Khalifa
Plastic pollution is one of the most serious environmental issues, causing severe environmental damage. It is of vital importance to find an efficient and eco-friendly approach to biodegrading plastics. The aim of this study was to isolate and characteri...
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Anisha Bhattacharyya, Lei Liu, Kenneth Lee and Jiahe Miao
Oily wastewater is generated from various sources within the petrochemical industry, including extraction, refining and processing, storage, and transportation. Over the years, large volumes of oily wastewater from this industry have made their way into ...
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Ping Guo, Wei-Wei Xu, Dan-Na Wei, Man-Xia Zhang, Jin Zhang, Shi Tang, Bin-Xia Cao, Jian-Guo Lin and Wei Li
The removal of oil contaminants in marine intertidal sediments under cold climate is an urgent issue. Although the bioavailability of petroleum hydrocarbons decreases at low temperatures, biosurfactants can promote oil biodegradation. In this study, char...
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Saskia Rughöft, Anjela L. Vogel, Samantha B. Joye, Tony Gutierrez and Sara Kleindienst
During marine oil spills, chemical dispersants are used routinely to disperse surface slicks, transferring the hydrocarbon constituents of oil into the aqueous phase. Nonetheless, a comprehensive understanding of how dispersants affect natural population...
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