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Sci Total Environ. 2018 May 15;624:309-322. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.12.127. Epub 2017 Dec 16.

Characterisation of electron beam irradiation-immobilised laccase for application in wastewater treatment.

The Science of the total environment

Elham Jahangiri, Isabell Thomas, Agnes Schulze, Bettina Seiwert, Hubert Cabana, Dietmar Schlosser

Affiliations

  1. Department of Environmental Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany.
  2. Leibniz Institute of Surface Modification (IOM), 04318 Leipzig, Germany.
  3. Department of Analytical Chemistry, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany.
  4. Department of Civil Engineering, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec J1K 2R1, Canada.
  5. Department of Environmental Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 29258032 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.12.127

Abstract

Laccase from Phoma sp. UHH 5-1-03 was cross-linked to polyvinylidene fluoride membranes by electron beam irradiation. Immobilised laccase displayed a higher stability than the non-immobilised enzyme with respect to typical wastewater temperatures, and pH at a range of 5 to 9. Batch tests addressed the removal of pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs; applied as a mixture of acetaminophen, bezafibrate, indometacin, ketoprofen, mefenamic acid, and naproxen) by both immobilised and non-immobilised laccase in municipal wastewater. High removal rates (>85%) of the most efficiently oxidised PhACs (acetaminophen and mefenamic acid) indicated a high efficiency of the immobilised laccase in wastewater. Continuous elimination of the aforementioned PhACs by the immobilised enzyme in a continuously operated diffusion basket reactor yielded a PhAC removal pattern qualitatively similar to those observed in batch tests. Clearly higher apparent V

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Keywords: Acetaminophen; Laccase immobilisation; Micro-pollutants; Pharmaceutically active compounds; Transformation products; Wastewater

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