Published in Scientific Papers. Series E. Land Reclamation, Earth Observation & Surveying, Environmental Engineering, Vol. VIII
Written by Ovidiu IORDACHE, Ioana Corina MOGA, Cornelia MITRAN, Dana CIUTARU, Irina SANDULACHE, Lucia SECAREANU, Gabriel PETRESCU, Elena PERDUM
Fungi have been widely used in industrial wastewater treatment, as real alternative to conventional treatment methods. Specific filamentous fungi (FF) have been used for sludge treatment, bioflocculation, SS concentration reduction, degradation and removal of certain toxic compounds etc. Very few research works exploited the use of fungi augmented carriers inside MBBR systems. Present work explored the bio-augmentation experiments of four polyethylene based carriers with strain of Cerioporus squamosus (syn. Polyporus squamosus), a basidiomycete bracket fungus. Bioaugmentation was carried out in various conditions (varying certain process parameters) in order to facilitate growth of strain inside the carriers’ structure, which were composed of a mix of polyethylene with inorganic and organic compounds, especially designed in order to allow microbial growth inside the carriers’ internal space.
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