Performance of bacterial strains used for distillery waste treatment on different substrates |
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Authors: | Santosh Kumar and L Viswanathan |
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Institution: | Biochemistry Division, National Sugar Institute, Kanpur 208017, India |
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Abstract: | Six bacterial strains were isolated and acclimatized on distillery waste. The performance of these bacterial strains in respect to growth, reduction in chemical oxygen demand (COD) values, carbon dioxide production and volatile acid production were studied on five different substrates. Glucose and xylose exhibited growth patterns similar to that on spentwash. Glucose, xylose, casein hydrolysate and amino acids led to very good reduction in COD values compared with glycerol. Rate of substrate consumption was maximum in the case of glucose followed by amino acids, casein hydrolysate, xylose and glycerol. Production of volatile acids and carbon dioxide from glucose amounted to ≈ 50% of the theoretical yield based on glycolysis and the tricarboxylic acid cycle. Production of carbon dioxide followed the usual microbiological growth pattern while volatile acids did not show any such pattern. Carbon dioxide and volatile acids appear to be the major degradation products in distillery waste treatment by these bacteria. |
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Keywords: | Distillery waste bacterial substrate consumption carbon dioxide production volatile acid production COD reduction |
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