Bioremediation Studies of Sugar Mill Effluent by Using Fungal Isolates

Authors

  • K. Parani  Assistant Professor, PG and Research Department of Botany, Sri Parasakthi College For Women (Autonomous), Courtallam, Tamil Nadu, India
  • P. Veera Lakshmi  Research Scholar, PG and Research Department of Botany, Sri Parasakthi College For Women (Autonomous), Courtallam, Tamil Nadu, India
  • V. Suganthi  M. Sc, PG and Research Department of Botany, Sri Parasakthi College For Women (Autonomous), Courtallam, Tamil Nadu, India

Keywords:

Bioremediation, Sugar mill effluent, Fungal isolates, Physico – chemical parameters, Immobilized beads

Abstract

The sugar mill effluent was treated with fungal strains such as Penicillium sp., Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus niger and immobilized fungal consortium as beads were used for the bioremediation. In this study, there was a maximum reduction in BOD and COD values were observed i.e., 56.7% and 62.6% with the effluent inoculated with immobilized culture followed by Aspergillus flavus (40.8%) and Aspergillus niger (50.9%) were reduced the BOD and COD significantly. There was an maximum reduction of total solids (64.4%), total suspended solids (70%) (TSS) and total dissolved solids (64.4%) (TDS) were recorded in sugar mill effluent treated immobilized fungal cultures as compared to the raw effluent which showed 55.5% of total solids, 50% of total suspended solids (TSS) and 56% of total dissolved solids (TDS) on 20 days of bioremediation in sugar mill effluent respectively. A gradual reduction in removal of salinity from 32% to 41.4% as inoculated with different fungal strains and immobilized cultures during 20 days of incubation / bioremediation with sugar mill effluent as compared to untreated effluent (control) showed 27.3% reduction of salinity respectively. The Aspergillus flavus remediated sugar mill effluent showed 34.6% of reduction in salinity was in par with Penicillium species grown in sugar mill effluent (35.9%) on 20th day of incubation respectively.

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K. Parani, P. Veera Lakshmi, V. Suganthi, " Bioremediation Studies of Sugar Mill Effluent by Using Fungal Isolates, International Journal of Scientific Research in Chemistry(IJSRCH), ISSN : 2456-8457, Volume 7, Issue 6, pp.13-20, November-December-2022.