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- Title
Simultaneous biodegradation kinetics of 1,4-dioxane and ethane.
- Authors
Tesfamariam, Ermias Gebrekrstos; Luo, Yi-Hao; Zhou, Chen; Ye, Ming; Krajmalnik-Brown, Rosa; Rittmann, Bruce E.; Tang, Youneng
- Abstract
Biodegradation of 1,4-Dioxane at environmentally relevant concentrations usually requires the addition of a primary electron-donor substrate to sustain biomass growth. Ethane is a promising substrate, since it is available as a degradation product of 1,4-Dioxane's common co-contaminants. This study reports kinetic parameters for ethane biodegradation and co-oxidations of ethane and 1,4-Dioxane. Based on experiments combined with mathematical modeling, we found that ethane promoted 1,4-Dioxane biodegradation when the initial mass ratio of ethane:1,4-Dioxane was < 9:1 mg COD/mg COD, while it inhibited 1,4-Dioxane degradation when the ratio was > 9:1. A model-independent estimator was used for kinetic-parameter estimation, and all parameter values for 1,4-Dioxane were consistent with literature-reported ranges. Estimated parameters support competitive inhibition between ethane as the primary substrate and 1,4-Dioxane as the secondary substrate. The results also support that bacteria that co-oxidize ethane and 1,4-Dioxane had a competitive advantage over bacteria that can use only one of the two substrates. The minimum concentration of ethane to sustain ethane-oxidizing bacteria and ethane and 1,4-Dioxane-co-oxidizing bacteria was 0.09 mg COD/L, which is approximately 20-fold lower than the minimum concentration reported for propane, another common substrate used to promote 1,4-Dioxane biodegradation. The minimum 1,4-Dioxane concentration required to sustain steady-state biomass with 1,4-Dioxane as the sole primary substrate was 1.3 mg COD/L. As 1,4-Dioxane concentrations at most groundwater sites are less than 0.18 mg COD/L, providing ethane as a primary substrate is vital to support biomass growth and consequently enable 1,4-Dioxane bioremediation.
- Subjects
ETHANES; BIODEGRADATION; SUBSTRATES (Materials science); BIOCHEMICAL substrates; CHEMICAL oxygen demand; COMPETITIVE advantage in business; BIOMASS
- Publication
Biodegradation, 2024, Vol 35, Issue 4, p371
- ISSN
0923-9820
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10532-023-10058-x