城市污泥中邻苯二甲酸酯(PAEs)的厌氧微生物降解

邻苯二甲酸酯(PAEs)是城市污泥中普遍存在的一类具有内分泌干扰性作用的有机污染物.研究污泥厌氧生物处理过程中PAEs的微生物降解对保障污泥农用的安全性十分必要.本文以污泥中两种主要的PAEs——邻苯二甲酸二丁酯(DBP)和邻苯二甲酸(2-乙基己)酯(DEHP)为研究对象,通过比较PAEs在污泥厌氧消化系统与发酵产氢系统中降解过程的差异及系统污泥特性的变化,分析不同污泥厌氧生物处理系统中影响PAEs降解的可能因素.结果表明: 在污泥厌氧发酵系统中,DBP在6 d内降解率达99.6%, DEHP在整个14 d的培养期间也降解了46.1%;在发酵产氢系统中,在14 d培养过程DBP的降解率仅为19.5%,DEHP则没有明显的降解.与厌氧消化系统相比,PAEs在发酵产氢系统中的降解受到明显抑制,这与发酵产氢过程中微生物量下降、革兰氏阳性菌/革兰氏阴性菌(G⁺/G^-)和真菌/细菌变小及挥发性脂肪酸(包括乙酸、丙酸及丁酸)浓度升高有关.     

复合微生物菌剂在剩余污泥堆肥中的作用研究

随着我国社会经济的快速发展,社会经济活动中产生的污水和污泥处理问题也越来越严重,广泛存在于污水处理机构中的污泥成为一个日渐严重的问题,复合微生物菌剂在污水处理活动中剩余污泥的处理活动中,因为其对污泥无害化处理的积极作用而备受欢迎,本文将从复合微生物菌剂的角度出发,结合剩余污泥堆肥处理中的实际,对复合微生物菌剂在剩余污泥堆肥处理中的作用进行简要的分析。     

降解畜禽养殖废水污泥的优势菌株筛选及其性能研究

为了实现畜禽养殖废水处理过程中污泥的减量化,从不同样品中筛选得到8株污泥降解菌。以污泥作为唯一的碳源和能源来验证8株菌的污泥降解效果,最终得到3株污泥降解优势菌株,分别为嗜线虫沙雷氏菌Serratia nematodiphila H1、产吲哚金黄杆菌Chryseobacterium indologenes B4和苍白杆菌Ochrobactrum thiophenivorans D7。其中嗜线虫沙雷氏菌H1对污泥的可挥发性悬浮固体(volatile suspended solids,VSS)去除率最高,达52. 9%,比对照组的41. 6%提高27. 2%;产吲哚金黄杆菌B4和苍白杆菌D7对污泥的VSS去除率次之,分别为48. 6%和47. 5%,比对照组提高16. 8%和14. 2%,均有显著的污泥降解效果。     

含油污泥微生物处理技术研究

针对胜利油田现河采油厂和滨南采油厂联合站罐底污泥的含油污泥进行了微生物处理技术研究工作。主要是利用微生物分离含油污泥的油、泥和降解污泥中的污染物的性能,达到油泥分离和污染物降解的目的。经过了微生物的分离、筛选和诱导培养,选育到了合适的菌株,利用该菌株对含油污泥经厌氧处理后再进行好氧脱油实验,对污泥中脱出原油进行回收。结果表明：所选菌株可以使含油23000mg/kg的含油污泥在4h内脱油到。10100mg/kg,脱油率达到53．4％;微生物降解实验中,随着时间的延长,油去除率越高,降解效果越明显,当处理时间为60d处理后的污泥达到排放标准。     

油田含聚合物污水微生物处理初步研究

对油田日益增多的并且对环境造成潜在危害的而现有污水处理工艺难于处理的含聚合物污水进行微生物处理初步研究。结果表明,从油田污水污泥中分离得到的七株聚丙烯酰胺(PAM)降解菌在合适的营养条件下协同作用,对大港油田的含PAM的污水具有较好的处理效果。经过3d的处理,微生物菌群将补充了磷和氮的污水的COD降低了87.7%;经过18d的处理,微生物菌群将补充了磷的污水的COD由13499mg.L-1降低为283 mg.L-1,降低幅度达到了97.9%。因而这7株PAM降解菌对含PAM污水处理具有很好的应用前景。     

碱-组合工艺预处理剩余污泥研究进展

城市污泥在进行厌氧发酵处理时,所需时间长、SS降解率低、产气量也低,难以有效达到污泥减量化的目的(VS去除率30％左右).污泥的厌氧发酵包括水解、酸化、产乙酸、产甲烷的过程.研究发现在污泥进行厌氧发酵过程中固态有机物的水解、酸化是限速步骤,因此为了促进污泥的水解、酸化,使更多的固体有机物转化为水溶性的有机物,进而提高厌氧发酵的效率实现污泥的减量化、无害化和资源化利用,对污泥预处理是必须的.该文着重介绍了NaOH及其组合工艺对污泥预处理的影响.     

不同预处理方式对市政污泥/餐厨垃圾混合厌氧消化产甲烷的影响

考察了不同的预处理方式对餐厨垃圾与市政污泥混合厌氧消化产甲烷的影响。结果表明:对市政污泥进行热碱预处理效果最优,与空白组相比,热碱处理组累计单位质量的挥发性固体(VS)的甲烷产量达到了255.00 L,提高了13.03%,溶解性化学需氧量(SCOD)的降解率提高了27.05%,总固体(TS)的降解率提高了16.65%,VS的降解率提高了9.08%。在厌氧消化过程中,利用碳水化合物及蛋白质的热袍菌门(Thermotogae)的比例在所有处理中都有所上升;与产生短链脂肪酸有关的Erysipelotrichaceae菌属在预处理组中的丰度显著高于空白组,热碱处理组中Erysipelotrichaceae在末期的丰度最高,为19.21%;Petrimonas在厌氧消化体系中的作用为产氢产乙酸菌,热碱处理组的Petrimonas的丰度在产气高峰时最高,为6.84%。不同处理系统起主要产甲烷作用的古菌属为Methanosarcina,在产气高峰期热碱预处理组中Methanosarcina的丰度最高。预处理能够破环市政污泥的细胞结构,提高污泥的可生物利用性,提高混合厌氧消化产甲烷的效率。     

外源微生物及辅料对秸秆降解效果的影响

研究加入外源微生物及添加辅料对秸秆降解率的影响。通过秸杆固体培养进行了降解试验,结果显示,加入外源微生物后纤维素降解率明显提高,嗜热侧孢霉可提高34.76%,放线菌可提高18.99%。通过在秸秆中加入辅料香菇菌糠,培养后秸秆的纤维素含量由原来的32.11%降至14.19%,降解率达55.81%。加入外源微生物的秸秆降解过程具有升温快、温度高及高温维持时间长等优点。加入微生物的秸秆降解高温维持8 d,对照为6 d。秸秆降解过程中的最高温度分别为63℃和58℃。为下一步外源微生物的进一步研究及菌糠的大量利用提供参考。     

污水生物处理中的噬菌体及其功能研究进展

污水生物处理是一种利用微生物分解污水中的污染物、实现污水净化的方法。噬菌体是侵染细菌的病毒,在污水生物处理系统中广泛存在,它们能够特异性地控制微生物菌群,影响污水处理效果和调控污泥性状。因此,研究污水生物处理中噬菌体的分布及其功能具有重要意义。本文介绍了不同污水生物处理中噬菌体的分布,简要分析了噬菌体分离、培养与鉴定方法及其优缺点,详细总结了噬菌体在污水生物处理中的功能,包括:(1)调节微生物群落结构,影响污水处理效果;(2)作为环境监测的指示生物;(3)控制病原菌、污泥膨胀、污泥发泡和膜污染;(4)减少污泥产量,重点分析了影响噬菌体功能的因素,探讨了污水生物处理中噬菌体功能应用存在的问题及其解决方法,最后对噬菌体未来应用的发展方向进行了展望,以期为污水生物处理技术和工艺的开发与应用提供参考,促进污水处理健康发展。     

导电碳颗粒促进污泥厌氧消化及微生物种间电子传递的研究进展

添加导电碳颗粒能够促进厌氧消化过程稳定性、底物降解率以及产沼气品质的同步提高。本文总结了以活性炭和生物炭为代表的导电碳颗粒对城市污泥厌氧消化的影响,探讨了导电碳颗粒促进城市污泥厌氧消化的机理,阐述了导电碳颗粒介导的微生物直接种间电子传递(Directinterspecies electrontransfer,DIET)在强化污泥厌氧消化中的作用机制,分析了复杂厌氧消化体系中微生物DIET互营关系的研究现状,同时对导电碳颗粒的物理化学特性及其对污泥厌氧消化产甲烷的影响进行了分析,最后对未来导电碳颗粒促进城市污泥厌氧消化的研究进行了展望。     

Thermophilic aerobic wastewater treatment,process performance,biomass characteristics,and effluent quality

Thermophilic aerobic wastewater treatment is reviewed. Thermophilic processes have been studied in laboratory and pilot-scale while full-scale applications are rare. The paper focuses on the microbiology of aerobic thermophiles, performance of the aerobic wastewater treatments, sludge yield, and alternatives to enhance performance of thethermophilic process. Thermophilic processes have been shown to operate under markedly high loading rates (30–180 kg COD m⁻³d⁻¹).Reported sludge production values under thermophilic conditions vary between 0.05 and0.3 kg SS kg COD_removed, which are about the same or lower than generally obtained in mesophilic processes. Compared to analogous mesophilic treatment, thermophilic treatment commonly suffers from poorer effluent quality, measured by lower total COD and filtrated (GF-A) COD removals. However, in the removal of soluble (bacterial membrane filtered) COD both mesophilic and thermophilic treatments have produced similar results. Sludge settle ability in thermophilic processes have been reported to be better or poorer than in analogous mesophilic processes, although cases with better settling properties are rare. Combining thermophilic with mesophilic treatment or ultrafiltration may in some cases markedly improve effluent quality. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Pressure stabilization is not a general property of thermophilic enzymes: the adenylate kinases of Methanococcus voltae, Methanococcus maripaludis, Methanococcus thermolithotrophicus, and Methanococcus jannaschii.

The application of 50-MPa pressure did not increase the thermostabilities of adenylate kinases purified from four related mesophilic and thermophilic marine methanogens. Thus, while it has been reported that some thermophilic enzymes are stabilized by pressure (D. J. Hei and D. S. Clark, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 60:932-939, 1994), hyperbaric stabilization is not an intrinsic property of all enzymes from deep-sea thermophiles.     

Diversity, localization, and physiological properties of filamentous microbes belonging to Chloroflexi subphylum I in mesophilic and thermophilic methanogenic sludge granules

We previously reported that the thermophilic filamentous anaerobe Anaerolinea thermophila, which is the first cultured representative of subphylum I of the bacterial phylum Chloroflexi, not only was one of the predominant constituents of thermophilic sludge granules but also was a causative agent of filamentous sludge bulking in a thermophilic (55 degrees C) upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor in which high-strength organic wastewater was treated (Y. Sekiguchi, H. Takahashi, Y. Kamagata, A. Ohashi, and H. Harada, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 67:5740-5749, 2001). To further elucidate the ecology and function of Anaerolinea-type filamentous microbes in UASB sludge granules, we surveyed the diversity, distribution, and physiological properties of Chloroflexi subphylum I microbes residing in UASB granules. Five different types of mesophilic and thermophilic UASB sludge were used to analyze the Chloroflexi subphylum I populations. 16S rRNA gene cloning-based analyses using a 16S rRNA gene-targeted Chloroflexi-specific PCR primer set revealed that all clonal sequences were affiliated with the Chloroflexi subphylum I group and that a number of different phylotypes were present in each clone library, suggesting the ubiquity and vast genetic diversity of these populations in UASB sludge granules. Subsequent fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) of the three different types of mesophilic sludge granules using a Chloroflexi-specific probe suggested that all probe-reactive cells had a filamentous morphology and were widely distributed within the sludge granules. The FISH observations also indicated that the Chloroflexi subphylum I bacteria were not always the predominant populations within mesophilic sludge granules, in contrast to thermophilic sludge granules. We isolated two mesophilic strains and one thermophilic strain belonging to the Chloroflexi subphylum I group. The physiological properties of these isolates suggested that these populations may contribute to the degradation of carbohydrates and other cellular components, such as amino acids, in the bioreactors.     

Simple efficient methods for the isolation of malate dehydrogenase from thermophilic and mesophilic bacteria.

Malate dehydrogenase from a number of bacteria drawn from several genera and representing the mesophilic, moderately thermophilic and extremely thermophilic classes was isolated by procedures which involve only a small number of steps (in most cases only two), of which the key one is affinity chromatography on 5'-AMP--Sepharose and/or on NAD+--hexane--agarose. Electrophoretic analysis of the native enzymes in polyacrylamide gel and of the denaturated enzymes in sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide gel revealed no significant protein impurity in the purified preparations. The yields ranged from about 40% to over 80%. The malate dehydrogenases from the extreme thermophiles and from some of the moderate thermophiles are appreciably less efficient catalytically than their mesophilic homologues.     

Comparison of laboratory-scale thermophilic biofilm and activated sludge processes integrated with a mesophilic activated sludge process

A combined thermophilic-mesophilic wastewater treatment was studied using a laboratory-scale thermophilic activated sludge process (ASP) followed by mesophilic ASP or a thermophilic suspended carrier biofilm process (SCBP) followed by mesophilic ASP, both systems treating diluted molasses (dilution factor 1:500 corresponding GF/A-filtered COD (COD(filt)) of 1900+/-190 mgl(-1)). With hydraulic retention times (HRTs) of 12-18 h the thermophilic ASP and thermophilic SCBP removed 60+/-13% and 62+/-7% of COD(filt), respectively, with HRT of 8 h the removals were 48+/-1% and 69+/-4%. The sludge volume index (SVI) was notably lower in the thermophilic SCBP (measured from suspended sludge) than in the thermophilic ASP. Under the lowest HRT the mesophilic ASP gave better performance (as SVI, COD(filt), and COD(tot) removals) after the thermophilic SCBP than after the thermophilic ASP. Measured sludge yields were low (less than 0.1 kg suspended solids (SS) kg COD(filt removed)(-1)) in all processes. Both thermophilic treatments removed 80-85% of soluble COD (COD(sol)) whereas suspended COD (COD(susp)) and colloidal COD (COD(col)) were increased. Both mesophilic post-treatments removed all COD(col) and most of the COD(susp) from the thermophilic effluents. In conclusion, combined thermophilic-mesophilic treatment appeared to be easily operable and produced high effluent quality.     

The specific activities of mesophilic and thermophilic proteinases

1. Most enzymes from extreme thermophiles do not possess higher specific activities than similar enzymes from mesophiles (measured at their respective growth temperatures). 2. However, using protein substrates, the specific activities of thermophilic proteinases are considerably higher than those of most microbial and eukaryotic proteinases. 3. This property could be attributed to purely kinetic influences on the enzyme, to some specific "design" feature of the proteinase, or to the effects of temperature on the substrate. 4. Comparisons of the rates of hydrolysis of large and small substrates by both mesophilic and thermophilic proteinases suggest that temperature-induced changes in substrate susceptibility are a major factor.     

Comparison of organic matter degradation and microbial community during thermophilic composting of two different types of anaerobic sludge

Changes in organic matter degradation and microbial communities during thermophilic composting were compared using two different types of anaerobic sludge, one from mesophilic methane fermentation, containing a high concentration of proteins (S-sludge), and the other from thermophilic methane fermentation, containing high concentrations of lipids and fibers (K-sludge). The difference in the organic matter degradation rate corresponded to the difference in the organic matter constituents; the CO(2) evolution rate was greater in the composting of S-sludge than of K-sludge; moreover, the NH(3) evolution resulting from the protein degradation was especially higher in the composting of S-sludge. Then the differences in the microbial communities that contributed to each composting were determined by the PCR-DGGE method. Ureibacillus sp., which is known as a degrader with high organic matter degradation activity, was observed during the composting of S-sludge, whereas Thermobifida fusca, which is a well known thermophilic actinomycete that produces enzymes for lignocellulose degradation, were observed during the composting of K-sludge.     

Discrimination of mesophilic and thermophilic proteins using machine learning algorithms

Discriminating thermophilic proteins from their mesophilic counterparts is a challenging task and it would help to design stable proteins. In this work, we have systematically analyzed the amino acid compositions of 3075 mesophilic and 1609 thermophilic proteins belonging to 9 and 15 families, respectively. We found that the charged residues Lys, Arg, and Glu as well as the hydrophobic residues, Val and Ile have higher occurrence in thermophiles than mesophiles. Further, we have analyzed the performance of different methods, based on Bayes rules, logistic functions, neural networks, support vector machines, decision trees and so forth for discriminating mesophilic and thermophilic proteins. We found that most of the machine learning techniques discriminate these classes of proteins with similar accuracy. The neural network-based method could discriminate the thermophiles from mesophiles at the five-fold cross-validation accuracy of 89% in a dataset of 4684 proteins. Moreover, this method is tested with 325 mesophiles in Xylella fastidosa and 382 thermophiles in Aquifex aeolicus and it could successfully discriminate them with the accuracy of 91%. These accuracy levels are better than other methods in the literature and we suggest that this method could be effectively used to discriminate mesophilic and thermophilic proteins.     

Alcohol dehydrogenases from thermophilic and hyperthermophilic archaea and bacteria

Many studies have been undertaken to characterise alcohol dehydrogenases (ADHs) from thermophiles and hyperthermophiles, mainly to better understand their activities and thermostability. To date, there are 20 thermophilic archaeal and 17 thermophilic bacterial strains known to have ADHs or similar enzymes, including the hypothetical proteins. Some of these thermophiles are found to have multiple ADHs, sometimes of different types. A rigid delineation of amino acid sequences amongst currently elucidated thermophilic ADHs and similar proteins is phylogenetically apparent. All are NAD(P)-dependent, with one exception that utilises the cofactor F(420) instead. Within the NAD(P)-dependent group, the thermophilic ADHs are orderly clustered as zinc-dependent ADHs, short-chain ADHs, and iron-containing/activated ADHs. Distance matrix calculations reveal that thermophilic ADHs within one type are homologous, with those derived from a single genus often showing high similarities. Elucidation of the enzyme activity and stability, coupled with structure analysis, provides excellent information to explain the relationship between them, and thermophilic ADHs diversity.