title: Effect of spent cotton stalks on color removal and chemical oxygen demand lowering in olive oil mill wastewater by white rot fungi.
abstract: Wastewater from olive oil mill was decolorized (and its chemical oxygen demand reduced in static cultivation) using the fungi Coriolus versicolor, Funalia trogii, Phanerochaete chrysosporium and Pleurotus sajor-caju. The effect of cotton stalk on decolorizing and COD removing capability was demonstrated. P. chrysosporium (in 20% medium with cotton stalk) reduced the COD by 48% and color by 58%, F. trogii (in 30% medium with cotton stalk)) by 51 and 55%, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Science, Faculty of Education, Inonu University, Malatya, Turkey.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kahraman
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Yeşilada
mesh_terms: D001673:Biodegradation, Environmental; D003116:Color; D005658:Fungi / Q000378:metabolism*; D003368:Gossypium; D000069463:Olive Oil; D010100:Oxygen; D020075:Phanerochaete / Q000378:metabolism; D010938:Plant Oils; D020076:Pleurotus / Q000378:metabolism; D020072:Polyporales / Q000378:metabolism; D014865:Waste Disposal, Fluid; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000302:isolation & purification*
chemical_list: D000069463:Olive Oil; D010938:Plant Oils; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical; D010100:Oxygen