Abstract
The study evaluated acute impact of tetracycline on the biodegradation of acetate by microbial cultures acclimated to different growth conditions. Two fill/draw reactors were operated to obtain acclimated cultures at sludge ages of 2 and 10. days. Acclimated biomass seeding was used in two series of batch experiments. The first run served as control and others were started with tetracycline doses of 100. mg/L and 400. mg/L. Parallel batch reactors were also operated for oxygen uptake rate (OUR) measurements. Acute impact was evaluated by model calibration of OUR, chemical oxygen demand (COD) and intracellular storage profiles. Exposure to tetracycline did not impair COD removal but induced a shift in acetate utilization toward polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) storage. This shift was more pronounced for fast growing biomass; it identified itself both in related process kinetics and the modified stoichiometry between the magnitude of acetate directly used for microbial growth and converted to PHB.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 157-164 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Bioresource Technology |
| Volume | 198 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2015 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
Funding
Authors thank The Scientific Research Fund of Istanbul Technical University for support of this project (Project Nr: 34235 and 34117). The authors are also grateful to Aslihan Ural for her contribution during the data generation.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi | 34117, 34235 |
Keywords
- Acetate
- Acute impact
- Polyhydroxybutyrate
- Process modeling
- Tetracycline
