Effluents

Fungi

Treatment

References

Reactor and medium handling

Parameters

Wood processing wastewaters

Sporotichum pulverulentum (P. chrysosporium)

Batch reactor (25 m³); continuous laboratory fermentor (10 l)

Biomass (5.7 g l^-1); Protein (42%); Protein productivity (132 mg l^-1); cellulase (0.2 U ml^-1); Suspended particles (88%); BOD 73%); COD 52%); feedstuff (rat, pigs and sheep)

Ek and Eriksson (1980); Thomke and Rundgreen (1980)

A. foetidus

Shake-flask; dilution (10%)

Decolorization (90%, 2 d)

Sumathi and Phatak (1999)

C. versicolor;

P. chrysosporium; Pleurotus ostreatus; polyporus versicolor

Shake-flask; immobilization in beads of Ca-alginate gel; dilution (16.7%); co-substrates (sucrose 0.5%, xylose, glucose, glycerol, ethanol)

Decolorization of suspended biomass (60%, 6 d); decolorization of immobilized biomass (80%, 3 d)

Livernoche et al (1980); Marwaha et al. (1998)

P. chrysosporium; Phanerochaete flavido-alba

Shake-flask; co-substrate (glucose); Mn (0.3 mg l^-1); culture age

Decolorization (88%), LiP (450 nmol min^-1 ml^-1); MnP (800 nmol min^-1 ml^-1)

Perez et al. (1997)

P. chrysosporium; Ganoderma australe; Coriolopsis gallica ; Paecilomyces variotii

Shake-flask

P. chrysosporium (decolorization, 50%, 7 d; lignin pyrolisis compounds, 57% reduction;);

G. australe (decolorization, 50%, 7 d; lignin derivated compounds 48% increased );

C. gallica (decolorization, 48%, 7 d; lignin-derivated compounds 77% reduction);

P. variotii (decolorization, 85%, 7 d; lignin-derivated compounds 78% reduction)

Calvo et al. (1995 a b)

T. versicolor

Shake-flask; continuous feeding bioreactor; culture age; dilution 30%); SO₄Mn (23 mg l^-1); co-substrate (glucose, 0.3%; sucrose; starch; ethanol, carboxymethyl-cellulose; pulp and bagasse pith)

Decolorization (90 %, 9 d) Lacc (700 U l^-1, 10 d); MnP (25 U l^-1, 7 d); phenols (90%); COD (69%)

Manzanares et  al. (1995); Mehna et al. (1995)

Sordaria fimicola; Halosarpheia ratnagiriensis

Shake-flask; pH (4.5; 8.2)

S. fimicola (decolorization,  55%, Lacc (100  nkatal ml^-1)); H. ratnagiriensis (decolorization,  85%;  Lacc (100  nkatal ml^-1))

Raghukumar et al. (1996)

Ceriporopsis subvermispora; R. oryzae

Shake-flask; co-substrat (glucose, 0.1%; sucrose; lactose; microcrystalline cellulose; carboxymethyl cellulose; xylose; starch; athyl alcool; bagasse pith; cheese whey; prehydrolysate liquor; molasses)

Color (90%); COD (45%); lignin (62%);  AOX (32%);  EOX (36%)

Nagarathnamma et al. (1999); Nagarathnamma and Bajpai (1999)