Anaerobic biodegradation of nitroglycerin by digester sludge
Conference
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OSTI ID:250894
- Stevens Inst. of Technology, Hoboken, NJ (United States). Center for Environmental Engineering
Nitroglycerin (NG) is an energetic compound primarily present in gun and rocket propellants as a primary explosive. It was also abundantly found in spent wastes from several chemical or pharmaceutical industries and in the wastewater of munitions manufacturing facilities causing significant environmental pollution. Incineration, other thermal processes, and chemical treatment such as acid or alkaline hydrolysis can effectively destroy these high energy compounds but they are associated with high treatment costs. Moreover, chemical processes may generate waste streams which require further treatment prior to their discharge in the environment. There is therefore, a pressing need for the development of new technologies that can economically and effectively deal with the disposal of energetic compounds. Biological treatment of energetic compounds amenable to microbial degradation provides an alternative to costly thermal and chemical methods. NG can be aerobically biodegraded by several fungal and bacterial consortia in the presence of co-substrates. The decomposition proceeds through a number of intermediate products whose formation is catalyzed by extra-cellular enzymes. The anaerobic biodegradation of NG by a mixed bacterial culture from digester sludge was investigated in this study. the study focused on the ability of anaerobic bacteria to degrade NG and utilize it as sole carbon source, the identification of possible intermediates,and the effect of co-substrates on the rates of transformation.
- OSTI ID:
- 250894
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9507204--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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