微生物脱有机硫的研究进展

高硫化石燃料必须预先经过脱硫处理才能进一步使用。化石燃料中含有的有机硫化合物成分复杂,大部分是杂环化合物,其中的CS化学共价键十分牢固。物理的和化学的脱有机硫方法成本大,而微生物脱硫工艺由于操作压力、温度低,运转成本少,具有广阔的前景。将二苯并噻吩(DBT)作为模式反应物的微生物脱有机硫专一途径(“4S”途径)由于仅打开CS键,而不打开C—C键,以特有的酶系统仅将硫从杂环中脱下来,不损失燃料热值的途径引起广泛的关注。微生物硫专一途径(“4S”途径)在专一性脱化石燃料有机硫研究中有一定的意义。     

脱氮硫杆菌的脱硫特性及其处理恶臭物质硫化氢的应用

污水和污泥的处理过程中会产生大量的恶臭气体硫化氢(H2S)。脱氮硫杆菌是氧化H2S和其他硫化物的重要的脱硫工程菌。本文阐述了脱氮硫杆菌的生物学特性和氧化H2S的两种途径。分析了反应体系中的硫化物负荷、硝酸盐和亚硝酸盐的浓度、氧含量以及pH值等因素对氧化效果、反应速率、氧化途径及产物形式的影响。介绍了脱氮硫杆菌在恶臭污染治理中的应用及其在同步处理含氮含硫恶臭物质方面的发展趋势。     

细菌脱有机硫的遗传学研究进展*

化石燃料的燃烧,产生大量的有毒气体ＳＯ２进入大气,造成严重的空气污染,同时也是产生酸雨的最主要的原因［１,９］。为了保护环境,要求使用低硫含量的化石燃料,但目前世界上低硫含量的化石燃料储备正在急剧减少。因此需要对含硫高的化石燃料进行脱硫处理。化学脱硫方法一加氢脱硫（Hydrodesulfurization）难以脱去化石燃料中的有机硫。而生物催化法脱硫便宜,在常温下即可进行,并且具有高专一性,因此发展一种化石燃料的生物脱硫方法已是十分必要［1］。 化石燃料中的有机硫主要是二苯并噻吩（Dibenzothiophene,DBT）,于是生物脱…     

微生物脱有机硫的研究进展

高硫化石燃料必须预先经过脱硫处理才能进一步使用。化石燃料中含有的有机硫化合物成分复杂,大部分是杂环化合物,其中的Ｃ－Ｓ化学共价键十分牢固,物理的和化学的脱有机硫方法成本大,而微生物脱硫工艺由于操作压力、温度低,运转成本少,具有广阔的前景。将二苯并噻吩（ＤＢＴ）作为模式反应物的微生物脱有机硫专一途径（“４Ｓ”途径）由于仅打开Ｃ－Ｓ键,而不打开Ｃ－Ｃ键,以特有的酶系统仅将硫从杂环中脱下来,不损失燃料热     

污水脱氮功能微生物的组学研究进展

生物脱氮是污水处理厂的核心,掌握生物脱氮过程相关微生物代谢特性,对于探索微生物资源和提高污水处理厂脱氮性能具有重要意义。近年来,分子生物学方法不断发展和改进,已被广泛应用于揭示脱氮微生物群落多样性、组成结构和潜在功能等方面,大幅提升了研究者们对污水生物脱氮系统中微生物,尤其是不可培养微生物的代谢机理、抑制调控原理及新型生物脱氮工艺途径的认识。本文对流行的分子生物学方法(16S rRNA基因测序、实时荧光定量PCR技术、宏基因组学、宏转录组学、宏蛋白质组学和代谢组学)进行了介绍,综述了其在硝化细菌、反硝化细菌、完全氨氧化细菌、厌氧氨氧化细菌、厌氧铁氨氧化细菌、硫酸盐型厌氧氨氧化细菌及亚硝酸盐/硝酸盐型厌氧甲烷氧化微生物等方面的研究进展,阐明了这些氮素转化微生物在氮循环过程的代谢途径和酶促反应,并从标准测定方法构建、不同方法的联用及跨学科结合和检测方法的简易化这3个方面展望了分子生物学方法的技术突破及其在污水生物处理系统中的应用前景。本综述从系统角度全面认识脱氮微生物群落及其结构,为未来污水处理生物脱氮微生物的研究提供了新方向。     

不同氮源及CO_2浓度下湖泊微拟球藻的生长及产油特性分析

<正>工业生产排放的各种废气与污水污染人类赖以生存的环境。化石燃料燃烧除排放出大量CO2外,还释放出含有粉尘、SO[x和NOx等直接危害人类健康的有毒成分1]。其中NO]x与水结合后最终会转化成硝酸盐或亚硝酸盐等[2,导致污水中的含氮化合物氨氮、亚硝酸盐氮、硝酸盐氮和有机氮的含量通常偏高。如何有效去除污水中的氮是防治水体污染最关键的步骤之一,而利用微藻培养去除水体中的氮源是目前研究的热点。尽管生物燃料生产的成本远     

陆地生态系统氮饱和对植物影响的生理生态机制

由于化石燃料的燃烧、含氮化肥的使用以及畜牧业等人类活动的影响,向大气中排放的含氮化合物数量不断上升,从而引起大气氮沉降的增加,使得某些陆地生态系统出现氮饱和现象。丈章综述了全球氮沉降与陆地生态系统氮饱和现状,探讨了氮饱和对植物光合作用、养分平衡和抗逆性的影响机制。     

异养硝化-好氧反硝化菌Acinetobacter johnsonii sp. N26的脱氮性能及代谢途径

【背景】水体中含氮物质的大量累积会造成水体富营养化、水生生物死亡等问题,严重威胁水生态环境,制约我国环境保护的持续发展。【目的】为去除生活污水中的含氮污染物,从羊粪堆肥中筛选出了一株具有异养硝化-好氧反硝化功能的细菌——约氏不动杆菌Acinetobacter johnsonii sp.N26,研究其脱氮性能和代谢途径。【方法】测定菌株N26在氨氮和硝态氮中的生长和脱氮曲线,通过单因素试验对其脱氮性能进行优化,通过氮平衡分析和功能基因鉴定研究其脱氮代谢途径。【结果】生长和脱氮曲线表明,菌株N26对初始浓度均为50 mg/L的氨氮和硝态氮的去除速度快、效率高,其中9 h内对氨氮的去除效率为95.5%,最大去除速率为5.330 mg/(L·h);15 h内对硝态氮的去除效率为93.6%,最大去除速率为3.147 mg/(L·h),且最终仅有少量硝酸盐、亚硝酸盐积累。脱氮性能优化结果表明,该菌株的最适氮源为氯化铵,最适碳源为丁二酸钠,最适温度为30℃,最适接种量为15%,最适p H值为8.0-9.0,最适碳氮比为15,最适转速为120 r/min,最适氮负荷≤300 mg/L (氨氮)。氮平衡...     

生物脱硫的研究新进展*

化石燃料的脱硫形势日益严峻。生物技术为脱有机硫提供了一条经济有效的可行之路。阐述了近几年生物脱硫在许多方面的重大进展 ,主要包括 :新菌种的分离 ,生物脱硫机制的研究 ,应用直接进化技术提高酶的催化效率 ,新型反应器的设计及有价值的化学副产品的生产等。     

生物脱硫的研究新进展

化石燃料的脱硫形势日益严峻。生物技术为脱有机硫提供了一条经济有效的可行之路。阐述了近几年生物脱硫在许多方面的重大进展,主要包括：新菌种的分离,生物脱硫机制的研究,应用直接进化技术提高酶的催化效率,新型反应器的设计及有价值的化学副产品的生产等。     

Emissions of Total Volatile Organic Compounds from Anthropogenic Sources in India

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) have a direct bearing on the levels of ozone and other reactive chemicals in the atmosphere and play an important role in determining air quality Anthropogenic emission of VOCs has greatly increased due to growing consumption of fossil fuels and related activities. This article presents an emissions inventory for VOCs emitted from anthropogenic soutres in India. VOC emissions factors for important source categories and activities are assembled from the literature and an effort is made to use Indian emission factors as far as possible. Important sources of VOCs include livestock, combustion of firewood and fossil fuels, rice paddy fields, manufacturing. petroleum (production and refining), natural gas (production and distribution), vehicular exhaust, and coal mining. The annual anthropogenic VOC emissions for India have been estimated to be 21 million metric tons (mt). A comparison of VOC emissions inventories for a group of countries varying in their industrial and economic development, in terms of income (gross domestic product, or GDP), population, and land area, reflects the differences among the countries. This VOC emissions inventory provides baseline information for comparisons over time and across countries. In addition, it may serve as an important tool for formulating national VOC control policies.     

Addressing the energy crisis: using microbes to make biofuels

Much of the energy being used to power our lives comes from fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas and petroleum. These energy sources are non-renewable, are being exhausted and also pollute the air, water and soil with toxic chemicals. Their mining, transportation, refining and use are associated with a large carbon footprint that contributes significantly to global warming. In addition, the geopolitical complexities surrounding the main fossil fuel producers create risks and uncertainties around the world. Replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable forms of energy is paramount to creating a sustainable and healthy future, and for laying the foundations for global political stability and prosperity. Using biomass from plants, microbes can produce biofuels that are identical to or perform as well as fossil fuels. In addition of creating sustainable energy, advancing the biofuel industry will create new, high-quality rural jobs whilst improving energy security.     

Characterization of four endophytic fungi as potential consolidated bioprocessing hosts for conversion of lignocellulose into advanced biofuels

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology - Recently, several endophytic fungi have been demonstrated to produce volatile organic compounds (VOCs) with properties similar to fossil fuels, called...     

Integrated Environmental Assessment of sunflower oil production

The high energy and petroleum based fuels demand of the world require use of alternative fuels from materials available within each country. Therefore biofuels may be an alternative to mineral diesel. A local pilot production of sunflower oil was implemented in order to test the possibility to reduce fossil fuels consumption on a local scale. Vegetable oils can be directly obtained from oilseed plants and can be used as energy sources in internal combustion engines.Environmental Impact Indicators were provided by Material Flow Accounting, Embodied Energy Analysis and Emergy Accounting. All three approaches reveal that the agricultural phase is the critical step in the whole production line from the point of view of environmental impact. The renewability calculated for the sunflower oil is 33.6%.A comparative Life Cycle Assessment analysis for the sunflower oil production line from conventional farming with organic farming showed environmental advantages.Furthermore use of vegetable oils instead of diesel oil as energy sources in internal combustion engines reduces carbon dioxide emissions of 59%.This study represents an opportunity for farms to reduce dependence on petroleum and to explore energy production systems exploiting renewable energy.     

Botanochemicals: Supplements to petrochemicals

The development of alternative sources for energy and chemicals, particularly the use of plant biomass as a renewable resource for fuel or chemical feedstocks has received much recent attention. This report reviews the chemical utilization of plant materials for liquid fuels or organic chemicals, and presents the possibility of producing hydrocarbon and related chemical products, directly or indirectly, from extant plants rather than from fossil sources such as petroleum or coal.     

The role of the atmosphere in nitrogen cycling

In this work an analysis of the sources, atmospheric concentration, chemical reactions and sinks of the principal atmospheric nitrogen compounds is made. Atmospheric emissions of N₂O and NH₃ are almost entirely due to biological activity on the continents and in the oceans. The combustion of fossil fuels and biomass is the principal source of NO_x. The only relevant chemical transformations in the troposphere are the oxidation of NO_x to NO₃ ^? and the formation of ammonium salts. Only 10% of the NH₃ emitted is oxidized. Washout of NH₄ ⁺ and NO₃ ^? by rainfall is the principal mechanism for removing nitrogen compounds from the atmosphere. Part of the N₂O enters the stratosphere and part must be removed in the biosphere by processes not yet established. NO_x produced in the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels and biomass and by lightning represents between 30 and 40% of the total nitrogen fixed. A complete nitrogen balance for the troposphere is presented. Since the photochemical oxidation of NO_x is rapid and atmospheric transport is relatively slow with respect to the cycling of water in the troposphere, nitrogen compounds return to the earth's surface close to where they were emitted. Fixed-nitrogen inputs to the continents and oceans due to biological and industrial fixation are slightly greater than those due to rain water. However, since rain falls everywhere, input from this source is only important on soils not subject to intensive agriculture.     

Microbial biocatalyst developments to upgrade fossil fuels

Steady increases in the average sulfur content of petroleum and stricter environmental regulations concerning the sulfur content have promoted studies of bioprocessing to upgrade fossil fuels. Bioprocesses can potentially provide a solution to the need for improved and expanded fuel upgrading worldwide, because bioprocesses for fuel upgrading do not require hydrogen and produce far less carbon dioxide than thermochemical processes. Recent advances have demonstrated that biodesulfurization is capable of removing sulfur from hydrotreated diesel to yield a product with an ultra-low sulfur concentration that meets current environmental regulations. However, the technology has not yet progressed beyond laboratory-scale testing, as more efficient biocatalysts are needed. Genetic studies to obtain improved biocatalysts for the selective removal of sulfur and nitrogen from petroleum provide the focus of current research efforts.     

Microbial chemical factories: recent advances in pathway engineering for synthesis of value added chemicals

The dwindling nature of petroleum and other fossil reserves has provided impetus towards microbial synthesis of fuels and value added chemicals from biomass-derived sugars as a renewable resource. Microbes have naturally evolved enzymes and pathways that can convert biomass into hundreds of unique chemical structures, a property that can be effectively exploited for their engineering into Microbial Chemical Factories (MCFs). De novo pathway engineering facilitates expansion of the repertoire of microbially synthesized compounds beyond natural products. In this review, we visit some recent successes in such novel pathway engineering and optimization, with particular emphasis on the selection and engineering of pathway enzymes and balancing of their accessory cofactors.     

Microbial desulfurization of organic sulfur compounds in petroleum

Sulfur removal from petroleum is important from the standpoint of the global environment because the combustion of sulfur compounds leads to the production of sulfur oxides, which are the source of acid rain. As the regulations for sulfur in fuels become more stringent, the existing chemical desulfurizations are coming inadequate for the "deeper desulfurization" to produce lower-sulfur fuels without new and innovative processes. Biodesulfurization is rising as one of the candidates. Several microorganisms were found to desulfurize dibenzothiophene (DBT), a representative of the organic sulfur compounds in petroleum, forming a sulfur-free compound, 2-hydroxybiphenyl. They are promising as biocatalysts in the microbial desulfurization of petroleum because without assimilation of the carbon content, they remove only sulfur from the heterocyclic compounds which is refractory to conventional chemical desulfurization. Both enzymological and molecular genetic studies are now in progress for the purpose of obtaining improved desulfurization activity of organisms. The genes involved in the sulfur-specific DBT desulfurization were identified and the corresponding enzymes have been investigated. From the practical point of view, it has been proved that the microbial desulfurization proceeds in the presence of high concentrations of hydrocarbons, and more complicated DBT analogs are also desulfurized by the microorganisms. This review outlines the progress in the studies of the microbial desulfurization from the basic and practical point of view.     

Industrial exploitation of renewable resources: from ethanol production to bioproducts development

Plants, which are one of major groups of life forms, are constituted of an amazing number of molecules such as sugars, proteins, phenolic compounds etc. These molecules display multiple and complementary properties involved in various compartments of plants (structure, storage, biological activity etc.). The first uses of plants in industry were for food and feed, paper manufacturing or combustion. In the coming decades, these renewable biological materials will be the basis of a new concept: the "biorefiner" i.e. the chemical conversion of the whole plant to various products and uses. This concept, born in the 90ies, is analogous to today's petroleum refinery, which produces multiple fuels and derivative products from petroleum. Agriculture generates lots of co-products which were most often wasted. The rational use of these wasted products, which can be considered as valuable renewable materials, is now economically interesting and will contribute to the reduction of greenhouse has emissions by partially substituting for fossil fuels. Such substructures from biological waste products and transforming them into biofuels and new industrial products named "bioproducts". These compounds, such as bioplastics or biosurfactants, can replace equivalent petroleum derivatives. Towards that goal, lots of filamentous fungi, growing on a broad range of vegetable species, are able to produce enzymes adapted to the modification of these type of substrates. The best example, at least the more industrially developed to date, is the second generation biofuel technology using cellulose as a raw material. The process includes an enzymatic hydrolysis step which requires cellulases secreted from Trichoderma fungal species. This industrial development of a renewable energy will contribute to the diversification of energy sources used to transport and to the development of green chemistry which will partially substitute petrochemicals.