Long-term continuous treatment of non-sterile real hospital wastewater by Trametes versicolor.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hospital wastewater is commonly polluted with high loads of pharmaceutically active compounds, which pass through wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and end up in water bodies, posing ecological and health risks. White-rot fungal treatments can cope with the elimination of a wide variety of micropollutants while remaining ecologically and economically attractive. Unfortunately, bacterial contamination has impeded so far a successful implementation of fungal treatment for real applications.

Results

This work embodied a 91-day long-term robust continuous fungal operation treating real non-sterile hospital wastewater in an air pulsed fluidized bed bioreactor retaining the biomass. The hydraulic retention time was 3 days and the ageing of the biomass was avoided thro

SUBMITTER: Mir-Tutusaus JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6542094 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature