Abstract
The degradation, kinetics and biotransformation of Direct Red 80 and chemical oxygen demand (COD) were examined under a sulfate reducing environment. Complete color and sulfate removal with more than 87% COD removal were obtained in the batch experiments at different dye (50–800mg/l) and sulfate (100–5000mg/l) concentrations. Dye degradation, COD and sulfate removal followed first order kinetics. An increase in dye concentration from 0 to 800mg L−1 decreased the rate constant (k1) for dye, COD and sulfate removal from 0.0843 to 0.035h−1, 0.019 to 0.009h−1 and 0.108 to 0.075h−1, respectively. In particular, the sulfate concentration had no significant effect on dye degradation. Unlike other anaerobic cultures, the sulfate-reducing bacteria culture showed excellent dye mineralization and desulfonation ability. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry revealed aniline and 1,4-diamino benzene to be the resulting metabolites after the decolorization of Direct Red 80.
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