Mycofiltration: A Step Towards Sustainable Environment

Mehta, A; Dubey, R. N.; Kumar, Sumit

doi:10.20546/ijcmas.2017.606.179

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“…Many slaughterhouses in developing countries lack wastewater treatment facilities, and some, sited discharge untreated wastewater to water bodies. It is hoped that an easily operated and cheap wastewater treatment technology will reduce the pollution burden significantly on nearby water bodies receiving such effluents (Mehta et al 2017).…”

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“…Most wastewater treatment plants involve advanced technology, and the unavailability or lack of a regular electricity supply has hampered their adoption in developing countries. Therefore, an ecobased wastewater treatment technology needs to be harnessed (Mehta et al 2017).…”

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“…Mycofiltration is an emerging eco-solution for wastewater treatment involving the application of macroscopic fungi mycelium grown on suitable substratese.g., straw, wood chips and sawdust. Fungi mycelium can use the nutrients in the wastewater, as well as forming a network for trapping physical pollutants (Mehta et al 2017). Mycofiltration systems have been studied extensively pollutant removal from wastewater.…”

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Removal of pollutants by mycelium colonized sawdust

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Aighewi

2021

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Slaughterhouses generate wastewater daily and often discharge it to the environment. Many lack wastewater treatment systems, due to such systems' typically high cost and technological demands. In this study slaughterhouse wastewater was filtered through columns of mycelium – Pleurotus ostreatus – grown on sawdust substrates of different particle sizes. The columns' pollutant removal efficiencies were evaluated for color, turbidity, total suspended solids, total dissolved solids, electrical conductivity, dissolved oxygen, biological oxygen demand (BOD), chemical oxygen demand, total nitrogen and total phosphorus. The best color (75%), BOD (88%) and total nitrogen (86%) removal efficiencies were recorded with 2.36 mm particle size and 9 cm depth. Electrical conductivity removal efficiency was best with 2.36 mm particle size but 3 cm bed depth. The study showed that particle size has a significant effect on physiochemical pollutant removal by mycelium-colonized sawdust systems.

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Removal of pollutants by mycelium colonized sawdust

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Aighewi

2021

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“…The filtration part of mycelia, or mycofiltration, has been generally contemplated as a technique to sanitize storm water. Mycelia offer an effective, green technique for the expulsion of hurtful chemicals [14]. The mycofiltration technology could prove a simple answer to the problem.…”

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Evaluation of Toxicity and Bioremediation of Contaminated Drinking Water Sources in Delta State, Nigeria

Olorunfemi

Uzakah

Ofomata

et al. 2020

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Drinking water samples were collected from boreholes in six locations in Ughelli and environs in Delta State of Nigeria and were treated by filtration through a substrate colonized with mycelium of Pleurotus tuber-regium. Water samples were analysed for pH, heavy metal concentration and microbiological content before and after filtration. Results obtained showed that the pH of unfiltered water samples were acidic (5.0 – 5.8) and below the WHO and SON permissible limits for drinking water. The same trend was followed by the concentrations of heavy metals such as lead, iron, zinc and chromium. Water samples from all six locations also had high total bacterial and coliform counts. Filtration through the mycelium colonized substrate showed adjustment of pH to a range within the WHO permissible limits. Reduction in heavy metal concentration ranged from 45.0 – 100%. Total bacterial count of mycofiltered water samples was impressively reduced by 77.3 – 100% and coliform count was not detected. The results obtained in this study makes mycofiltration a potential cost-effective and efficient technique for the treatment of potable water for domestic use.

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