Degradation of tetracycline under denitrification and methanogenesis system and its performance change
GONG Qing1, WANG Zhen1, XING Jian-bo2, WANG Su-fang1, ZHOU Ai-juan1, YUE Xiu-ping1
1. College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China; 2. Ecological Environment Assessment Center of Datong City, Datong 037002, China
Abstract:To effectively remove tetracycline (TC) from wastewater, the degradation characteristics and system performance changes of TC under anaerobic denitrification simultaneous methanogenesis (SDM) system were investigated using sodium acetate as a co-metabolizing substrate. The degradation rate of TC (1mg/L) in SDM system could reach 82.6% within 5d, and the degradation rate of TOC during TC degradation could reach more than 95%; however, a certain concentration of TC pressure had an inhibitory effect on TC degradation, NO3--N removal and CH4production, which affected the performance of SDM treatment wastewater. In addition, the degradation pathways of TC by microorganisms in the reaction system were mainly hydroxylation, carbon bond breaking and deamination, etc. Based on the intermediate products, it was concluded that the anaerobic functional groups were enriched by high-throughput sequencing, and the bacterial phylum were Proteobacteria, and the dominant genera were Candidatus_Promineofilum and Candidatus_Microthrix. The Archaebacteria phylum were mainly Euryarchaeota and Halobacterota, and the dominant genera were Methanosaeta and Methanothrix. Finally, the effluent biotoxicity was tested and the results showed that the effluent biotoxicity was reduced at the end of the cycle and was close to that of the blank group.
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GONG Qing, WANG Zhen, XING Jian-bo, WANG Su-fang, ZHOU Ai-juan, YUE Xiu-ping. Degradation of tetracycline under denitrification and methanogenesis system and its performance change. CHINA ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCECE, 2023, 43(6): 2899-2907.
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