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Muruganandham Thanavel1, Paul Olusegun Bankole2, Ramu Selvam1
1Post Graduate and Research Department of Biotechnology, National College (Autonomous), Dindigul Road, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, 620 001, India.
Abstract:
The current study investigated the efficiency of synergistic biological and Advanced Oxidation Process (AOPs) treatment (B-AOPs) using Aeromonas hydrophila SK16 and AOPs-H2O2 in the removal of Remazol Yellow RR dye. Singly, A. hydrophila and AOPs showed 90 and 63.07% decolourization of Remazol Yellow RR dye (100 mg L-1) at pH 6 and ambient temperature within 9 h respectively. However, the synergistic B-AOPs treatments showed maximum decolorization of Remazol Yellow RR dye within 4 h. Furthermore, the synergistic treatment significantly reduced BOD and COD of the textile wastewater by 84.88 and 82.76% respectively. Increased levels in laccase, tyrosinase, veratryl alcohol oxidase, lignin peroxidase and azo reductase activities further affirmed the role played by enzymes during degradation of the dye. UV-Visible spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC-MS) confirmed the biotransformation of dye. A metabolic pathway was proposed based on enzyme activities and metabolites obtained after GC-MS analysis. Therefore, this study affirmed the efficiency of combined biological and AOPs in the treatment of dyes and textile wastewaters in comparison with other methods.
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