A comparison between biostimulation and bioaugmentation in a solid treatment of anaerobic sludge

Emerging pollutants can reach the environment through the sludge of Wastewater Treatment Plants. In this work, the use of Trametes versicolor in biopiles at lab-scale was studied, evaluating its capacity to remove the most hydrophobic Pharmaceuticals and assessing the evolution of the biopiles micro...

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Autores: Llorens Blanch, Guillem|||0000-0002-0302-9517, Parladé Molist, Eloi|||0000-0001-5750-550X, Martínez-Alonso, Maira|||0000-0002-3321-2558, Gaju, Núria|||0000-0002-4951-2096, Caminal i Saperas, Glòria|||0000-0001-9646-6099, Blánquez Cano, Paqui|||0000-0003-2443-9977
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:194304
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/194304
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2017.10.048
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Biopiles
Bioremediation
Microbial shifts
Pharmaceutical products
Sewage sludge
Trametes versicolor
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Sumario:Emerging pollutants can reach the environment through the sludge of Wastewater Treatment Plants. In this work, the use of Trametes versicolor in biopiles at lab-scale was studied, evaluating its capacity to remove the most hydrophobic Pharmaceuticals and assessing the evolution of the biopiles microbial communities. The total removal of drugs at real concentrations from sewage sludge was assessed for non-inoculated and fungal inoculated biopiles, testing if the re-inoculation of the biopiles after 22 days of treatment would improve the removal yields. It was found that 2 out of the 15 initially detected pharmaceuticals were totally degraded after 22 days, and re-inoculated fungal biopiles achieved higher removal rates than non-re-inoculated fungal biopiles for single compounds and for all the drugs simultaneously: 66.45% and 49.18% re-inoculated and non-re-inoculated biopiles, respectively. Finally, the study of the bacterial and fungal communities revealed that fungal inoculated and non-inoculated biopiles evolved to similar communities adapted to the presence of those drugs.