Application of microbial melanoidindecomposing activity (MDA) for treatment of molasses wastewater
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Author list: Sirianuntapiboon S., Ohmomo S.
Publisher: Hindawi
Publication year: 2011
Start page: 181
End page: 198
Number of pages: 18
ISBN: 9781607419150
eISSN: 1745-4557
Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)
Abstract
This review will discuss the melanoidin-decomposing activity (MDA) among microorganisms. The focus will be on the potential use of the microbial-MDA to treat the wastewater discharged from factories using molasses as the raw material (molasses wastewater: MWW) because molasses is one of the most useful raw materials in various types of industries, such as the fermentation and animal feed industries. However, the wastewater discharged from factories using molasses contains a large amount of dark brown pigment, melanoidin pigment: MP, which is poorly decomposed and/or decolorized by normal biological treatment processes, such as the activated sludge or anaerobic treatment systems (anaerobic pond or anaerobic contact digester), because, the microorganisms in those wastewater treatment systems showed very poor MDA. The distribution of MDA among microorganisms and the mechanism of decomposing activities, in particular, were reviewed. Also, the application of the isolated strains having the MDA to treat molasses wastewater in the wastewater treatment plant was tested. ฉ 2010 Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.
Keywords
Alcohol distillation, Chemical decolorization, Microbial decolorization
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