Abstract
Examination of the different methods employed to detect dehydrogenases activity of activated sludge by reduction of triphenyl tetrazolium chloride (TTC) indicated the non‐uniformity of the procedures. A modified method is, therefore, developed which consists of incubation of a dilute sonicated sample of mixed liquor suspended solids (MLSS) of activated sludge with TTC in the presence of sodium sulfite, phosphate buffer and cyanide. Triphenyl formazan (TF) formed is first dissolved in acetic acid and later extracted by toluene. Optical density (OD) of the color is measured at 485 nm. Dehydrogenases activity is calculated from the OD and expressed as specific activity per unit weight of protein. Modified method gave less relative dispersion compared to the values obtained on the same but unsonicated samples of MLSS.
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