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Microbial biodegradation
About: Microbial biodegradation is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1647 publications have been published within this topic receiving 75473 citations.
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TL;DR: The new method to evaluate the anaerobic biodegradability of bioplastics, such as polycaprolactone (PCL) and poly (lactic acid) (PLA), under aquatic (slurry) conditions at 55 °C is applying.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the biodegradation of pentachlorophenol (PCP), the most toxic among chlorophenols, in solid-liquid two-phase bioreactors to demonstrate the feasibility of this technological platform.
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TL;DR: Recalcitrant compounds can be made biodegradable by developing microorganisms capable of degrading the compound and by treating the compound to make it more conducive to mirobial attack.
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TL;DR: The results imply that the use of biochar as a soil remediation strategy for organochlorine compounds should be cautious, due to a strong sorption affinity for PCP under both aerobic and anaerobic conditions.
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TL;DR: Based on the net Co2 evolved from the biometers, about 4% of the AT and AL initially present in the soil was completely mineralized, compared to AT, which proceeded at a faster rate and resulted in a greater amount of AL transformed.
Abstract: �� -diethyl-N[methoxymethyl]-acetanilide) in contaminated mix-load site soil utilizing an extracellular fungal enzyme solution derived from thewhiterotfungus,Phanerochaetechrysosporium,growninapackedbedbioreactor.Thirty-twopercentofATand54%ofALwere transformed in the biometers. The pseudo first-order rate constant for AT and AL biodegradation was 0.0882d −1 and 0.2504d −1 , respectively. The half-life (t1/2) for AT and AL was 8.0 and 3.0 days, respectively. Compared to AT, the initial disappearance of AL proceeded at a faster rate and resulted in a greater amount of AL transformed. Based on the net Co2 evolved from the biometers, about 4% of the AT and AL initially present in the soil was completely mineralized.
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