MICROBIAL DECOLORIZATION OF TEXTILE DYES PRESENT IN TEXTILE INDUSTRIES EFFLUENT

摘要

Effluent discharge from textile and dyestuff industries to neighboring water bodies and wastewater treatment systems is currently causing significant health concerns to environmental regulatory agencies. Colour removal, in particular, has recently become of major scientific interest.rnIn a concerted effort aimed at tackling dye containing effluent decolorization and treatment we report on the isolation of several facultative anaerobic bacterial cultures able to decolorize dyes in textile effluent samples after prolonged enrichment culture under anaerobic conditions. One mesophilic bacterial consortium PDW has been capable of completely decolorizing most of the dyes used within 24-54 hours at 30?