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Semi-specific Microbacterium phyllosphaerae-based microbial sensor for biochemical oxygen demand measurements in dairy wastewater

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Although the long incubation time of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD7) measurements has been addressed by the use of microbial biosensors, the resulting sensor-BOD values gained from the measurements with specific industrial wastewaters still underestimates the BOD value of such samples. This research aims to provide fast and more accurate BOD measurements in the dairy wastewater samples. Unlike municipal wastewater, wastewater from the dairy industry contains many substrates that are not easily accessible to a majority of microorganisms. Therefore, a bacterial culture, Microbacterium phyllosphaerae, isolated from dairy wastewater was used to construct a semi-specific microbial biosensor. A universal microbial biosensor based on Pseudomonas fluorescens, which has a wide substrate spectrum but is nonspecific to dairy wastewater, was used as a comparison. BOD biosensors were calibrated with OECD synthetic wastewater, and experiments with different synthetic and actual wastewater samples were carried out. Results show that the semi-specific M. phyllosphaerae-based microbial biosensor is more sensitive towards wastewaters that contain milk derivates and butter whey than the P. fluorescens-based biosensor. Although the M. phyllosphaerae biosensor underestimates the BOD7 value of actual dairy wastewaters by 25–32 %, this bacterial culture is more suitable for BOD monitoring in dairy wastewater than P. fluorescens, which underestimated the same samples by 46–61 %.

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We gratefully acknowledge the support of Estonian Science Foundation (ETF 9136) and the target-financed project of the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research NoSF0180135s08 named “Processes in macro- and microheterogeneous and nanoscale systems and related technological applications.”

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  1. Institute of Chemistry, University of Tartu, Ravila 14a, Tartu, 50411, Estonia

    Elo Kibena & Merlin Raud

  2. Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, Nooruse 1, Tartu, 50411, Estonia

    Eerik Jõgi

  3. Institute of Technology, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia

    Timo Kikas

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Kibena, E., Raud, M., Jõgi, E. et al. Semi-specific Microbacterium phyllosphaerae-based microbial sensor for biochemical oxygen demand measurements in dairy wastewater. Environ Sci Pollut Res 20, 2492–2498 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-012-1166-8

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