Removal of Pharmaceutical Micropollutants with Integrated Biochar and Marine Microalgae

Microorganisms

Amin Mojiri¹  Maedeh Baharlooeian²  RezaAndasht Kazeroon³  Ziyang Lou⁴  Hossein Farraji⁵ 

[1] Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Advance Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima 739-8527, Japan;Department of Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Science and Oceanography, Khorramshahr University of Marine Science and Technology, Khorramshahr 669, Iran;Faculty of Civil Engineering, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an 710055, China;School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China;School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand;

关键词: biochar;    carbamazepine;    emerging micropollutant;    microalgae;    sulfamethazine;    tramadol;   

DOI  :  10.3390/microorganisms9010004

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Using microalgae to remove pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) micropollutants (MPs) have attracted considerable interest. However, high concentrations of persistent PPCPs can reduce the performance of microalgae in remediating PPCPs. Three persistent PPCPs, namely, carbamazepine (CBZ), sulfamethazine (SMT) and tramadol (TRA), were treated with a combination of Chaetoceros muelleri and biochar in a photobioreactor during this study. Two reactors were run. The first reactor comprised Chaetoceros muelleri, as the control, and the second reactor comprised Chaetoceros muelleri and biochar. The second reactor showed a better performance in removing PPCPs. Through the response surface methodology, 68.9% (0.330 mg L⁻¹) of CBZ, 64.8% (0.311 mg L⁻¹) of SMT and 69.3% (0.332 mg L⁻¹) of TRA were removed at the initial concentrations of MPs (0.48 mg L⁻¹) and contact time of 8.1 days. An artificial neural network was used in optimising elimination efficiency for each MP. The rational mean squared errors and high R² values showed that the removal of PPCPs was optimised. Moreover, the effects of PPCPs concentration (0–100 mg L⁻¹) on Chaetoceros muelleri were studied. Low PPCP concentrations (<40 mg L⁻¹) increased the amounts of chlorophyll and proteins in the microalgae. However, cell viability, chlorophyll and protein contents dramatically decreased with increasing PPCPs concentrations (>40 mg L⁻¹).

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