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Bioremediation Lecture
Bioremediation Lecture
types:
1. very easily degradable
2. easily degradable
3. potentially degradable
4. very slowly degradable
2. easily degradable
branched and straight chained polysaccarides, proteins, fatty acids and some
organic acids are of this type.
mostly does not require adaptation of micro-organisms but in some cases
adaptation to such pollutant is a requirement if the pollutant is not a general
substrate for supporting the growth of microbes.
For example, some pollutants like organophosphorus and pyrethroid pestcides, fatty
acids and aliphatic hydrocarbons are only degraded by adapted strains of bacteria.
the time required for adaptation differs with the pollutant types and adaptability of
the microbes.
involvement of more than one bacterial strains accelerated the degradation
process.
the retention time of such pollutant is 10-14 days.
3. potentially degradable
complex substances like saturated fats, oils, lipo-polysaccharides, lipoproteins, fats
of neutral nature and aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons are of this type.