Simultaneous removal of nutrient and sulfonamides from marine aquaculture wastewater by concentrated and attached cultivation of Chlorella vulgaris in an algal biofilm membrane photobioreactor (BF-MPBR)
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Authors: Peng, Yuan-Yuan; Gao, Feng; Yang, Hong-Li; Wu, Hang-Wei-Jing; Li, Chen; Lu, Miao-Miao; Yang, Zi-Yan
Abstract
Microalgae based wastewater treatment has attracted increasing attention for its many advantages in recent years. In this study, a novel microalgae biofilm membrane photobioreactor (BF-MPBR) was developed for the efficient microalgae cultivation and the removal of nutrient and sulfonamides (SAs) from marine aquaculture wastewater. Two BF-MPBRs with hydraulic retention time (HRT) of 1 day and 2 days respectively were continuously operated for 70 days without harvesting microalgae. Concentrated and attached culture of marine Chlorella vulgaris was achieved in these continuous flow BF-MPBRs due to the suspended solid carriers and microfiltration membrane module in the reactors. The algal biomass productivity achieved in BF-MPBRs with HRT of 1 day and 2 days were 14.02 and 22.03mgL(-1) day(-1), respectively. In addition, at the end of the cultivation, 60.4% and 45.0% of microalgae were fixed into algal biofilm in BF-MPBRs with 1 day and 2 day HRT, respectively. Compared with batch cultivation, more efficient nutrient and SAs removal performance was achieved in BF-MPBRs, although the HRT of the BF-MPBRs used in this study was only 1 or 2 days. During the stable operation stage of the BF-MPBRs, the reduction in dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN), dissolved inorganic phosphorus (DIP), sulfadiazine (SDZ), sulfamethazine (SMZ) and sulfamethoxazole (SMX) were found in the range of 91.0-99.6%, 92.1-98.4%, 61.0-79.2%, 50.0-76.7% and 60.8-82.1%, respectively. Therefore, nutrient and SAs were simultaneously and efficiently removed from marine aquaculture wastewater by microalgae cultivation in BF-MPBR. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Biological uptake and depuration of sulfadiazine and sulfamethoxazole in common carp (Cyprinus carpio)
CHEMOSPHERE
Authors: Zhao, Hongxia; Liu, Sisi; Chen, Jingwen; Jiang, Jingqiu; Xie, Qing; Quan, Xie
Abstract
Sulfonamides, a class of the most commonly used antibiotics, are being increasingly released into the aquatic environment and have recently caused considerable concerns. However, knowledge on their fate and ecotoxicological effects upon aquatic organisms is not understood yet. This work investigated mainly the bioconcentration kinetics (uptake/depuration) of sulfadiazine (SDZ) and sulfamethoxazole (SMZ) in common carp (Cyprittus carpio) by exposure in different concentrations under semi-static conditions for 48 d. The uptake rate (k(1)), growth-corrected depuration rate (k(2g)), and biological half-lives (t(1/2)) of two sulfonamides in liver and muscle were determined and they were 0.135-9.84 L kg(-1) d(-1), 0.0361-0.838 d(-1), 8.3-19.2 d, respectively. With exposure concentrations increasing, the uptake rates in liver and muscle decreased obviously but the depuration rates were not closely related with the exposure concentrations. SDZ exhibited higher uptake but lower excretion rates in almost all the liver and muscle than SMZ, resulting in both higher BCFs and half-lives for SDZ. The growth-corrected bioconcentration factors (BCFkg) were measured to be 1.65-165.73 L kg(-1) ww and their averages were in good consistency with the values predicted by previous models within one log unit. The work presented here was the first to model bioconcentration of SMZ and SDZ from water by laboratory-exposed fish. (c) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.