Utilization of fungi for biotreatment of raw wastewaters
By L. Coulibaly, G. Gourène, Spiros N. Agathos. 2003
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Fungal biomasses are capable of treating metal-contaminated effluents with efficiencies several orders of magnitude superior to activated carbon (F-400) or the industrial resin Dowex-50. Additionally, fungal biomasses are susceptible to engineering improvements and regeneration of their capabilities. With regard to organic pollutants, excessive nutrients and dyes, fungi can remove them from wastewaters, leading to a decrease in their toxicities. However, the detoxification rates seem to be dependent on media and culture conditions. The postreatement by anaerobic bioprocesses of effluents that have been pretreated with fungi can lead to higher biogas than the original effluents. In addition to the degradation of organic pollutants, fungi produce added-value products such as enzymes (LiP, MnP, Lacc, amylase, etc.) and single-cell protein (SCP). Most research on fungal capacities to purify polluted effluents has been performed on a laboratory scale, hence there is a need to extend such research to pilot scale and to apply it to industrial processes.
Subfields: Materials Chemistry, Plant Science, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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- Recent advances in pretreatment of lignocellulosic wastes and production of value added products (2009, background): “The postreatement by anaerobic biopro- cesses of LCW effluents that have been pretreated with fungi can lead to higher biogas than the original effluents (Coulibaly et al., 2003).”
- Use of Filamentous Fungi for Wastewater Treatment and Production of High Value Fungal Byproducts: A Review (2010, background): “Coulibaly et al. (2003) reviewed some of the fungal wastewater treatment processes treating domestic wastewater, agro-based industrial wastewater, dyes, and metal-containing effluents.”
- Evaluation of some white-rot fungi for their potential to decolourise industrial dyes (2007, background): “dead or living mycelia for dye biosorption, itself face disposal problem [27].”