Isolation of a thermotolerant photosynthetic bacterium, Rhodobacter sphaeroides Strain, NAT, and its capacity for oil and chemical oxygen demand removal at high temperatures.
A thermotolerant photosynthetic bacterium NAT identified as Rhodobacter sphaeroides was isolated. When alginate-immobilized cells of strain NAT were used in high-temperature treatment of artificial sewage wastewater containing oil, the chemical oxygen demand (COD) decreased by 80% and 76% of the oil was removed after 96 h of treatment at 55 degrees C. Lipase activity was observed in the culture.
Yamaoka
Yosuke
Y
Materials Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin University, Akiku, Hiroshima 739-0321, Japan.
Takeno
Kenji
K
Shinkawa
Hidenori
H
Noparatnaraporn
Napavarn
N
Sasaki
Ken
K
D000332:Aerobiosis; D009821:Oils / Q000378:metabolism*; D010100:Oxygen / Q000378:metabolism*; D010710:Phosphates / Q000378:metabolism; D010777:Photochemistry; D012242:Rhodobacter sphaeroides / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism*; D013696:Temperature
D009821:Oils; D010710:Phosphates; D010100:Oxygen