Treating organic cyanide-containing groundwater by immobilization of a nitrile-degrading bacterium with a biofilm-forming bacterium using fluidized bed reactors

Organic cyanide are widely used as an ingredient in the production of plastics, synthetic rubbers, polymers, pharmaceuticals and pesticides or used in laboratories and industries as solvents. Although nitrile-containing wastewater is subjected to primary and secondary treatments, residual nitriles m...

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Published in:Environmental pollution (1987) 2018-06, Vol.237, p.908-916
Main Authors: An, Xuejiao, Cheng, Yi, Huang, Mingyan, Sun, Yueling, Wang, Hailan, Chen, Xi, Wang, Jinming, Li, Dapeng, Li, Chunyan
Format: Article
Language:English
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Biofilm
Groundwater treatment
Immobilization
Organic cyanide
Rhodococcus rhodochrous BX2
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Summary:Organic cyanide are widely used as an ingredient in the production of plastics, synthetic rubbers, polymers, pharmaceuticals and pesticides or used in laboratories and industries as solvents. Although nitrile-containing wastewater is subjected to primary and secondary treatments, residual nitriles may slowly seep and further migrate through groundwater, resulting in the micropollution of groundwater by organic pollutants. In this study, water samples were collected from different study areas in North China during a period of 3y (from 2013 to 2015) and analyzed to evaluate organic cyanide (CN−) contamination in groundwater. Three parallel lab-scale fluidized bed reactors (FBRs) were tested for their ability to remove organic cyanide from groundwater. The organic cyanide concentration in groundwater increased significantly (P 
ISSN:0269-7491
1873-6424
DOI:10.1016/j.envpol.2018.01.087