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Effects of some alkyl phenols on methanogenic degradation of phenol
Y T Wang1, M T Suidan, J T Pfeffer
1Department of Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40506.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|May 1, 1988
Abstract:
The effects of six phenolic compounds (o-, m-, and p-cresol and 2-, 3-, and 4-ethylphenol) on the anaerobic biodegradation of phenol was examined in batch methanogenic cultures. Results showed that ethylphenols were more inhibitory of phenol degradation than were cresols. The inhibitory effects of the three isomers of cresol and ethylphenol did not vary with the isomer but rather with the substituted functional group.