摘要
In Northwest Florida, the soil is mainly covered by poorly drained sandy soil of Myakka, which is characterized by a subsurface accumulation of humus and AI and Fe oxides. When organic rich landfill leachate is leaked to the iron rich soils, ferrous iron is released with the oxidation of organic compounds in the leachate. In this research, we investigated the activities of S. putrefaciens in reducing iron oxide in the iron rich soil of Northwest Florida with landfill leachate serving as the carbon source. S. putrefaciens had similar maximum specific growth rate and half saturation coefficients for all the leachate and soil samples. The average maximum specific growth rate was 0.008 hr^-1 and the average half saturation coefficient was 243.8 mg/L. Averagely, 2.2 mg ferrous iron was generated per mg COD consumed. In addition, adsorption of reduced ferrous iron on S. putrefaciens was further characterized. Ferrous iron adsorption on S. putrefaciens was a kinetic process, which increased with the increase of the reaction time. Equilibrium ferrous iron adsorption on S. putrefaciens can be reached after three hours. Ferrous iron had linear adsorption isotherms on S. putrefaciens for the pH range of 5 to 9.
