Abstract
The elemental sulfur formation by the partial oxidation of thiosulfate by both a sulfoxidizing consortium and by Thiobacillus thioparus ATCC 23645 was studied under aerobic conditions in chemostat. Steady state was attained with essentially total conversion to sulfate when the dissolved oxygen concentration was 5 mgO2 l-1 and below a dilution rate (D) of 3.0 d-1 for the consortium and 0.9 d-1 for T thioparus. The consortium formed elemental sulfur in steady state under oxygen limitation. Fifty percent of the theoretical elemental sulfur yield was obtained with a dissolved oxygen concentration of 0.2 mgO2 l-1. Growth of T thioparus was negatively affected with a concentration below 1.9 mgO2 l-1. Consortium yield from batch cultures was 2.1 g-1 proteinmol-1 thiosulfate, which was comparable with the values obtained in the chemostat at dilution rates of 0.4 d-1 and 1.2 d-1. The consortium showed a maximum degradation rate of 0.105 gthiosulfate g-1 proteinmin-1 and a saturation rate for S2O3 2-of 1.9 mM.
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