| Literature DB >> 15024610 |
D K Sharma1, H S Saini, M Singh, S S Chimni, B S Chadha.
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Acid blue-15, a complex and resonance-stabilized triphenylmethane (TPM) textile dye, resistant to transformation, was decolorized/degraded in an up-flow immobilized cell bioreactor. A consortium comprised of isolates belonging to Bacillus sp., Alcaligenes sp. and Aeromonas sp. formed a multispecies biofilm on refractory brick pieces used as support material. The TPM dye was degraded to simple metabolic intermediates in the bioreactor with 94% decolorization at a flow rate of 4 ml h(-1).Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15024610 DOI: 10.1007/s10295-004-0121-1
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol ISSN: 1367-5435 Impact factor: 3.346