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Microbial degradation of octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane
R Grümping1, K Michalke, A V Hirner
1Institute of Environmental Analytical Chemistry, University of Essen, D-45177 Essen, Germany. rainer.gruemping@uni-essen.de
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|May 1, 1999
Abstract:
The microbial degradation of low-molecular-weight polydimethylsiloxanes was investigated through laboratory experiments. Octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane was found to be biodegraded under anaerobic conditions in composted sewage sludge, as monitored by the occurrence of the main polydimethylsiloxane degradation product, dimethylsilanediol, compared to that found in experiments with sterilized control samples.