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Organic carbon coupling with sulfur reducer boosts sulfur based denitrification by Thiobacillus denitrificans
- Source :
- Science of The Total Environment. 748:142445
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2020.
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Abstract
- Sulfur autotrophic denitrification utilizes elemental sulfur as the electron donor for nitrate removal from aquatic environments. Organic carbon could stimulate the conversion of sulfur and facilitates the S0-based denitrification process in the mix-trophic. In this study, the co-cultured system of sulfur reducer (Geobacter sulfurreducens) and Thiobacillus denitrificans was used to investigate that how organic carbon could boost the S0-based denitrification. The results showed that the rate of S0-based denitrification was improved with C/N ratio of 0.13 and this improvement continued even after the acetate was exhausted. Sulfur probe test and Raman analysis suggested that reduced sulfur species (Sx2−) were formed with the addition of organic carbon. The Sx2− could recombine with element sulfur and the bioavailability of S0 would be improved, as a result, the rate of S0-based denitrification increased as well. Nitrate reduction rate could further increase with the C/N ratio of 0.88, but it would decrease significantly when the C/N ratio increased to 1.50 as the high concentration of generated S2−. Our results provided explanations that why organic carbon addition would improve the bioavailability of S0 which could further promote the S0-dominant denitrification process.
- Subjects :
- Environmental Engineering
Denitrification
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Nitrogen
chemistry.chemical_element
Electron donor
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
chemistry.chemical_compound
Bioreactors
Nitrate
Environmental Chemistry
Autotroph
Waste Management and Disposal
Geobacter sulfurreducens
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Total organic carbon
Nitrates
biology
Thiobacillus
biology.organism_classification
Pollution
Sulfur
Carbon
Bioavailability
chemistry
Environmental chemistry
Geobacter
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00489697
- Volume :
- 748
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Science of The Total Environment
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f22b16f54c866758763d515c59c9c6fa