Complete reductive dechlorination of tetrachloroethene to ethene by anaerobic microbial enrichment culture developed from sediment

Autor: Chi-Yong Ahn, Youlboong Sung, Kyung-Hwa Baek, Hee-Mock Oh, Hee-Sik Kim, Dae-Hyun Cho, Sung-Cheol Koh, Byung-Hyuk Kim
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Biotechnology Letters. 32:1829-1835
ISSN: 1573-6776
0141-5492
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-010-0381-y
Popis: A mixed, anaerobic microbial enrichment culture, AMEC-4P, was developed that uses lactate as the electron donor for the reductive dechlorination of tetrachloroethene (PCE) to ethene. AMEC-4P consistently and completely converted 2 mM PCE to cis-1,2-dichloroethene (cis-DCE) within 13 days, and the intermediate, cis-DCE, was then completely dechlorinated to ethene after 130 days. Dechlorination rates for PCE to cis-DCE, cis-DCE to VC, and VC to ethene were 243, 27, and 41 μmol/l/day, respectively. Geobacter lovleyi and a Dehalococcoides sp. were identified from their 16S rRNA sequences to be the dominant phylotypes in AMEC-4P.
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