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The bioremediation of textile wastes is becoming an important issue in both developed and
developing countries (WAFAA 2000, DE MORAES et al. 2000, ONEILL et al. 2000, SARRIA
et al. 2001, KRULL and HEMPEL 2001, MCMULLAN et al. 2001, YESILADA et al. 2002). The
identification of microorganisms capable of assimilation or removal of textile dyes is one
approach to reduce environmental pollution by textile dyes. OGAWA and YATOME (1990)
found that azo dye assimilating bacteria isolated from drainage of a dyeing plant were identified as Pseudomonas cepacia. The acid azo dyes and p-aminoazobenzene, in model
wastewater, were effectively degraded by a continuous submerged culture of the bacteria.
HU (1994) also isolated a bacterium from sludge from a Taiwanese dye factory wastewater
treatment facility which removed the colour of four reactive azo dyes; Red G, RBB, RP2B
and V2RP. This bacterium was identified as P. luteola. After shaking incubation for 48 h,
P. luteola removed the colour from these dyes and in a further 2 days of static incubation,
the fraction of decolorization ranged between 37.493.2% of the original colour.
A microbial process was developed to treat wastewater effluent arising from a dyeindustry manufacturing methyl violet, rhodamine B, nigrosine and chrysoidine using a fixed
film bioreactor by PRADNYA-KANEKAR and SEEMA-SARNAIK (1995). A culture of Pseudomonas alcaligenes, isolated from cattle dung was applied. The microbial treatment resulted
in the reduction of 51% C.O.D. (chemical oxygen demand), 82% B.O.D. (Biological oxygen demand), 74% Total Organic Carbon (T.O.C.), and 75% phenol. The pH of the waste
effluent remained stable at 8.02 (PRADNYA-KANEKAR and SEEMA-SARNAIK 1995).
In this work we examined microbial resources of textile industrial sites to isolate microorganisms capable of bioremediating dye residues in Egypt.
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Results
Isolation of bacteria and actinomycetes on dye agar medium
Suspension from soils and effluents collected from textile factories dumping sites were
plated each separately on mineral salt agar medium containing 0.3 g/l of six commonly used
dyes as sole source of carbon and nitrogen. Each dye was supplemented separately to the
agar medium. These dyes are Direct yellow, Direct brown, Maxilon red, Polar red, Erio red
and Maxilon yellow. The ppercentage of bacteria and actinomycetes on petri dishes with
50 100 colonies were calculated based on colony morphology. Table 1 shows the proportions of bacteria and actinomycetes isolated on different dyes. The results show that actinomycetes dominate on Erio red and Direct yellow dyes, being 74 and 100%, respectively.
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Table 1
Percentage of bacteria and actinomycetes colonies growing in different dyes as sole source of carbon
and nitrogen
Dye
Actinomycetes
Bacteria
Direct yellow
Direct brown
Maxilon red
Polar red
Erio red
Maxilon yellow
100%
34%
0%
0%
74%
38%
0%
67%
100%
100%
26%
63%
However, bacteria dominated the colonies on Polar red and Maxilon red dyes being 100%
on both dyes. The other two dyes had both bacteria and actinomycetes, in comparatively
higher proportions with bacteria having higher percentages than actinomycetes. The bacteria
recorded 67 and 63% of colonies, whereas actinomycetes recorded 34 and 38% on Direct
brown and Maxilon yellow dyes, respectively.
Efficiency of bacteria and actinomycetes in dye removal
Bacteria and actinomycetes representing the diversity of colonies on dye-containing agar
media were tested for their capacity to remove dyes from liquid media supplemented with 1,
10 and 100 mg/l dyes.
The results in Table 2 show that the percentage of decolorization by isolates of bacteria
and actinomycetes did not exceed 20 and 25%, respectively, of the original color of Direct
yellow and Erio red dyes (10 mg/l) after 21 days of incubation. It is likely that bacteria and
actinomycetes attack part of the dye, but they are not able to degrade the dye totally due to
the lack of proper enzymes and the synthetic nature of these chemical compounds.
Efficiencycy of fungal isolates in dye removal
The six promising fungal isolates from soil and water samples were identified to genera
using the scheme of BARNETT and HUNTER (1972) and GILMAN (1957). These six isolates
fell into two genera, five of them belonged to Aspergillus and one was identified as Trichoderma virdi.
The six fungal isolates from soil and water samples from El-Mahalla El-Kubra were
tested for removal of five commonly used dyes (Tables 3, 4 and Fig. 1). The application of
large starting inocula of fungi (30 mg fungal mycelia/40 ml dye) induced removal of the
dyes from liquid media containing 300 mg/l of dyes in comparatively short time between
2 24 hours, where the highest percentages of decolorization of dyes recorded with Direct
brown dye with most isolates after incubation for 24 hours. The decolorization percentages
ranged between 42 to 89% Table 3. This indicates that the removal takes place by means
other than degradation process and more likely this phenomenon takes place by biosorption.
It is expected that the synthetic dyes would require much longer time for complete degradation by water and soil microflora. The role of representative fungal isolates in biodegradation of those compounds was tested by inoculation of liquid media supplemented with
100 mg/l of dyes as sole source of carbon and nitrogen with standard fungal inocula (loopful
of fresh fungal growth). Then 10 days of incubation the decolorization was measured as
percentage. The results show small percentage of dye removal from the solution with the
exception of one dye namely Maxilon red, which was removed by comparatively large
proportion but not exceeding 30% (Table 4). This indicates that the tested dyes are not readily attacked by fungal isolates throughout the incubation period.
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Table 2
Decolorization percent of Direct yellow and Erio red dyes by bacterial and actinomycetes isolates
(21 days)
Isolate number
10
10
100
0
0
0
0
0
12
20
8
0
5
12
0
0
0
4
0
0
0
2
5
9
10
6
0
6
0
0
0
0
11
4
0
12
13
11
0
0
0
8
14
0
0
0
0
0
25
25
19
0
11
0
0
17
0
0
0
0
0
0
% Decolorization
1*
2*
3*
4*
5*
6*
7*
22*
23*
24
25
31
35
36
39
40
44
45
46
47
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
17
23
4
14
15
15
19
15
14
3
11
4
15
13
13
17
15
13
6
16
12
15
13
13
5
6
17
6
4
0
0
0
0
0
11
0
0
0
0
4
18
0
3
0
9
0
0
17
0
Table 3
Biosorption of five textile dyes on biomass of six fungal strains
Strain number
Direct
yellow
Direct
brown
Maxilon
red dye
Erio red
Maxilon
yellow
25 (49)
23 (55)
25 (71)
64 (53)
34 (53)
30 (60)
14 (21)
28 (30)
9 (12)
10 (13)
10 (10)
6 (7)
0 (22)
9 (12)
15 (25)
36 (38)
7 (21)
0 (24)
% Decolorization
Aspergillus 1
Aspergillus 2
Aspergillus 3
Aspergillus 5
Aspergillus 11
Trichoderma virdi
29 (72)
38 (66)
11 (67)
19 (62)
30 (82)
0 (2)
80 (85)
81 (82)
47 (70)
55 (88)
81 (89)
0 (42)
* Numbers outside and inside parenthesis are the % of decolorization after 2 and 24 hours, respectively
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Direct
yellow
Direct
brown
Maxilon
red dye
Erio red
Maxilon
yellow
29
30
13
22
15
0
2
5
2
2
1
0
23
19
15
16
15
19
% Decolorization
Aspergillus 1
Aspergillus 2
Aspergillus 3
Aspergillus 5
Aspergillus 11
Trichoderma virdi
1
2
0
0
0
0
17
16
9
9
20
0
Therefore in this study we found it more practical to concentrate on the removal of dyes
by biosorption by fungal biomass, as this seems to be the reliable approach to remove dye
residues in short time. The other biodegradation approach will require extremely longer
time and effort (Tables 3 and 4).
Biodegradation (10 days)
Biosorption (24h)
100
% Decolorization
80
60
40
20
Dye
Y B R
Strain
Y B R
Y B R
Y B R
Y B R
Y B R
11
Tv
Fig. 1
Bio-removal of three textile dyes (Y, Direct yellow, B, Direct brown, R, Maxilon red) by six fungal
strains
Discussion
Several authors (ITOH et al. 1996, SARNAIK and KANEKAR 1995, VYAS and MOLITORIS
1995, HU 1994, LIU and YANG 1989) reported the active bioremediation of toxic and hazardous dyes by microorganisms. This bioremediation can be achieved either by biodegradation of certain dyes such as disperse Yellow 3 dye (Spadaro and Renganathan 1994) or by
biosorption of these toxins on strains of microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi (PRADNYA-KANEKAR and SEEMA-SARNAIK 1995 and COOKSON 1995).
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trogii. They found that decolorization of the Astrazon Red dye involved adsorption of the
dye compound by fungal pellets. These pellets produced 55% decolorization in 24 hours.
Screening of these isolates in relation to six dyes most commonly used in textile industry,
revealed that these fungal isolates were capable of removing dyes in a relatively short period
of time. This indicates that the process involved is mostly fast interaction between the fungal mycelium and the dye in the media. Consequently, the possible mechanism could be
based on a biosorption of such chemicals on the intact fungal biomass. This is in consistent
with LIU and YANG (1989) and HU (1994) who found fast removal of azo dyes by the biomass of the bacterium Pseudomonas, and with SANI et al. (1998) who found the rate of
decolorization of several dyes (Red HE-8B, Malachite Green, Navy Blue HE-2R, Magenta,
Crystal Violet) in the presence of P. chrysosporium was dependent on biomass concentration in the media. ONEILL et al. (2000) reported that decolorization of azo dyes during
biological treatment can involve both adsorption to cell biomass and degradation by azobond reduction during anaerobic digestion. The active bioremediating power of the fungi we
identified in bioremoval of three dyes through biosorption (after 24 hours), as compared
with slow degrading power with the same fungi (after 10 days of inoculation), is clearly
shown from Fig. 1. It seems that the growth of fungal biomass in dye containing media is
limited by readily assimilated carbon and nitrogen sources.
In conclusion the biosorption looks very promising for removal of dyes from effluents, as
the fungi can be easily cultivated in waste materials to harvest large amounts of biomass for
use in bioremediation programs.
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Mailing address: Dr. WAFAA M. ABD EL-RAHIM, Department of Agriculture Microbiology,
National Research Centre Dokki, Cairo, Egypt
e-mail: wafaa10m@hotmail.com