摘要
Due to its persistence and bio-toxicity,benzothiazole(BTH) cannot be biodegraded efficiently.Recent work has shown that removal rates of biorefractory organics can be enhanced by the addition of cosubstrates.In this work,ethanol,acetate,propionate and butyrate were added as co-substrates in order to promote the degradation of BTH in microbial electrolysis cell(MEC).By probing the changes in degradation rates of BTH in the presence of different co-substrates,it was observed that all the four co-substrates can enhance the BTH degradation in MEC,both the efficiency(EBTH) and the rate(RBTH).It was also found that acetate is more effective than others,which made the degradation efficiency of BTH up to 90% with acetate-C at350 mg/L(measuring by the carbon content of co-substrate,the same below),within 6 h and the degradation rate of BTH arrived 0.001 2/(mg·h).The microbacteria in MEC have also been influenced by different cosubstrates.This metabolism of the co-substrates enables the microbacteria on anode to generate ATP and thus grow to ensure the microbacteria activity.Therefore,this work showed that the addition of co-substrates such as acetate can be a novel and efficient approach for improving the elimination of BTH from wastewaters by MEC system.
Due to its persistence and bio-toxicity, benzothiazole （ BTH） cannot be biodegraded efficiently. Recent work has shown that removal rates of biorefractory organics can be enhanced by the addition of co-substrates. In this work, ethanol, acetate, propionate and butyrate were added as co-substrates in order to promote the degradation of BTH in microbial electrolysis cell （MEC）. By probing the changes in degradation rates of BTH in the presence of different co-substrates, it was observed that all the four co-substrates canenhance the BTH degradation in MEC, both the efficiency （Ebth） and the rate （Rbth ） ？ I t was also found thatacetate is more effective than others, which made the degradation efficiency of BTH up to 90% with acetate-C at 350 mg/L （measuring by the carbon content of co-substrate, the same below） ,within 6 h and the degradation rate of BTH arrived 0.001 2/（mg·h）. The microbacteria in MEC have also been influenced by different co-substrates. This metabolism of the co-substrates enables the microbacteria on anode to generate ATP and thus grow to ensure the microbacteria activity. Therefore, this work showed that the addition of co-substrates such as acetate can be a novel and efficient approach for improving the elimination of BTH from wastewaters by MEC system.
基金
Sponsored by the National Water Pollution Control and Management Technology Major Projects(Grant No.2013ZX07201007)
the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University(Grant No.NCET-11-0795)
the State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment(Grant No.2012DX04)
