Abstract
BackgroundUnderstanding about the impact of white rot fungi on indigenous bacterial communities, NH4+ and turbidity in digested piggery wastewater, will allow the optimization of wastewater treatment methods and its use as a feasible medium for algal growth. Here, the white rot fungi were inoculated into undiluted and unsterilized digested piggery wastewater under different temperatures and pH regimes in order to lower the pretreatment cost. Diversity and abundance of the bacterial communities in the pretreated wastewater were assessed by PCR-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis coupled with 16S rDNA sequencing.Results The research showed a significant reduction on the microbial diversity with the presence of white rot fungi which occur at pH 6. The distribution and presence of bacteria taxa were strongly correlated with NH4+ concentration, pH, and the presence of white rot fungi. Variance partition analysis also showed that the effect on the chlorophyll content of algae in fungi-filtered wastewater was as the following hierarchy: bacterial diversity > NH4+ > turbidity. Therefore, the algae in treated wastewater with less abundance of bacteria proliferated more successfully, indicating that bacterial community not only played an important role in algal growth but also imposed a strong top-down control on the algal population. The algae grown in wastewater treated with fungi reached the highest specific growth rate (0.033 day−1), whereas the controls displayed the negative specific growth rate. The fatty acid composition varied markedly in C16:0 and C18:0 between these treatments, with a higher content of C16:0.ConclusionsThis study firstly showed that Chlorella can grow as cost-effective biofuel feedstocks in undiluted and unsterilized digested wastewater with high ammonium concentration and dark brown color because the bacterial abundance of digested piggery wastewater could be reduced greatly by the white rot fungi.
Highlights
Understanding about the impact of white rot fungi on indigenous bacterial communities, NH4+ and turbidity in digested piggery wastewater, will allow the optimization of wastewater treatment methods and its use as a feasible medium for algal growth
This study aimed to determine the optimum conditions (e.g., NH4+, turbidity, and bacterial abundance) for wastewater to be useful as an algal growth medium pre-treated with white rot fungi
Results suggested that pollutant removal (NH4+ and turbidity) was tightly dependent on the selection of environmental conditions
Summary
Understanding about the impact of white rot fungi on indigenous bacterial communities, NH4+ and turbidity in digested piggery wastewater, will allow the optimization of wastewater treatment methods and its use as a feasible medium for algal growth. (2017) 4:6 effectiveness of microbial decolorization depends on the adaptability and activity of the chosen microorganisms and the characteristics of the nutrient itself Many factors such as strain selection, microbial ecology, and any environmental constraints must be taken into account to improve the biodegradation of digested piggery wastewater (Tyagi et al 2011). Phanerochaete chrysosporium (PC) is the most investigated species and has been shown to be very promising for treating effluents from pulp and paper, coal conversion, textile, and olive oil industries (Taccari et al 2009) It has become a model species in studying pollutant bioremediation, especially in the decolorization of different dyes (Moredo et al 2003). Due to the significant modifications on the microbial community with the presence of white rot fungi, it is difficult to distinguish the effects attributable to bacterial abundance or those inherent to the sample on algal growth in digested swine wastewater
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