The ability of a Rhodococcus aetherovorans strain, BCP1, to grow on butane and to degrade chloroform in the 0-633 microM range (0-75.5 mg l(-1)) via aerobic cometabolism was investigated by means of resting-cell assays. BCP1 degraded chloroform with a complete mineralization of the organic Cl. The resulting butane and chloroform maximum specific degradation rates were equal to 118 and 22 micromol mg(protein)(-1)day(-1), respectively. Butane inhibition on chloroform degradation was satisfactorily interpreted by means of a model of competitive inhibition, with an inhibition constant equal to 38 % of the estimated butane half-saturation constant, whereas chloroform (at 11 microM) did not inhibit butane utilization. Acetylene (1,720 microM) induced an almost complete inactivation of the degradation of both butane and chloroform, indicating that the studied cometabolic process is mediated by a monooxygenase enzyme. BCP1 proved capable of degrading vinyl chloride and 1,1,2-trichloroethane, but not 1,2-trans-dichloroethylene. BCP1 could grow on the intermediates of the most common butane metabolic pathways and on the aliphatic hydrocarbons from ethane to n-heptane. After growth on n-hexane, it was able to deplete chloroform (13 microM) with a degradation rate higher than that obtained, at the same chloroform concentration, after growth on butane.
The gas behavior in gas−liquid reactors stirred with multiple
Rushton turbines was studied.
Equipment of two scales and several aspect ratios as well as
liquids of different characteristics
were used. The gas behavior is modeled with the simple axial
dispersion model. Its suitability
for these systems is evaluated by means of two different experimental
techniquesa dynamic
one and steady-state one. The model proves good for water,
acceptable with coalescence-inhibiting electrolyte solutions, and rather questionable with viscous
liquids. Constant tip speed
is an appropriate scale-up criterion for the model parameterat least
for coalescent systems. A
tentative correlation is also proposed to account for the number of
turbines. Scrutinity of the
experimental results reveals the model drawbacks.
The goals of this work were (i) to compare two anion ion exchange resins (IRA958 Cl and IRA67) and a nonionic resin (XAD16) in terms of phenolic compounds adsorption capacity from olive mill wastewater and (ii) to compare the adsorption capacity of the best resin on columns of different length. The ion exchange resins performed worse than nonionic XAD16 in terms of resin utilization efficiency (20% versus 43%) and phenolic compounds/COD enrichment factor (1.0 versus 2.5). The addition of volatile fatty acids did not hinder phenolic compounds adsorption on either resin, suggesting a noncompetitive adsorption mechanism. A pH increase from 4.9 to 7.2 did not affect the result of this comparison. For the best performing resin (XAD16), an increase in column length from 0.5 to 1.8 m determined an increase in resin utilization efficiency (from 12% to 43%), resin productivity (from 3.4 to 7.6 g sorbed phenolics /kg resin ), and phenolics/COD enrichment factor (from 1.2 to 2.5). An axial dispersion model with nonequilibrium adsorption accurately interpreted the phenolic compounds and COD experimental curves.
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