title: Bioaugmentation and adsorption treatment of coking wastewater containing pyridine and quinoline using zeolite-biological aerated filters.
abstract: Bioaugmented zeolite-biological aerated filters (Z-BAFs), i.e. adding isolated degrading bacteria into the BAFs with zeolite as fillings, were designed to treat coking wastewater containing high concentrations of pyridine and quinoline and to explore the bacterial community of biofilm on the zeolite surface. The investigation was carried out for 91 days of column operation and the treatment of pyridine, quinoline, total organic carbon (TOC), and ammonium was shown to be highly efficient by bioaugmentation and adsorption. Biomass determination and bacterial diversity detection based on 16S rDNA and rRNA techniques supported the treatment data and indicated that bioaugmentation could recover the bacterial richness and diversity from pyridine and quinoline loading shocks. However, bioaugmentation accelerated the shift of the bacterial community structure resulting in a more distinct difference from the starting community. Clone library analysis revealed that pyridine and quinoline were more harmful to Bacterodietes among all ingenious bacteria, and bioaugmentation promoted the growth of Planctomycetes in the biofilm. Moreover, the introduced bacteria did not remain dominant in the bioaugmented biofilm, indicating the indigenous degrading bacteria played the most significant role in the treatment. This bioaugmented Z-BAF method was shown to be an alternative technology for the treatment of wastewater containing pyridine and quinoline or other N-heterocyclic aromatic compounds.
authors.affiliation: College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, The Key Laboratory of Water and Sediment Sciences Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Yaohui
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bai
authors.forename: Qinghua
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Renhua
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Donghui
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wen
authors.forename: Xiaoyan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Tang
mesh_terms: D000327:Adsorption; D001419:Bacteria / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D001483:Base Sequence; D001673:Biodegradation, Environmental; D003077:Coke / Q000032:analysis*; D005374:Filtration / Q000379:methods; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D011725:Pyridines / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D011804:Quinolines / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D014865:Waste Disposal, Fluid / Q000379:methods*; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D017641:Zeolites / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D003077:Coke; D011725:Pyridines; D011804:Quinolines; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical; D017641:Zeolites; C037219:quinoline; C023666:pyridine