• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.129-135
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• 2007

This study evaluated microbial risk that could develop within soil microbial communities after amended with organic fertilizers from stabilized swine manure waste. For this purpose, we assessed the occurrences and competitiveness of antibiotic resistance and pathogenicity in soil microbial communities that were amended with swine manure wastes stabilized by a traditional lagoon fermentation process and an autothermal thermophilic aerobic digestion process, respectively. According to laboratory cultivation detection analysis, soil applications of the stabilized organic fertilizers resulted in increases in absolute abundances of antibiotic resistant bacteria and of two tested pathogenic bacteria indicators. The increase in occurrences might be due to the overall growth of microbial communities by the supplement of nutrients from the fertilizers. Meanwhile, the soil applications were found to reduce competitiveness for various types of antibiotic resistant bacteria in the soil microbial communities, as indicated by the decrease in relative abundances (of total viable heterotrophic bacteria). However, competitiveness of pathogens in response to the fertilization was pathogens-specific, since the relative abundance of Staphylococcus was decreased by the soil applications, while the relative abundance of Salmonella was increased. Further testes revealed that no MAR (multiple antibiotic resistance) occurrence was detected among cultivated pathogen colonies. These findings suggest that microbial risk in the soil amended with the fertilizers may not be critical to public health. However, because of the increased occurrences of antibiotic resistance and pathogenicity resulted from the overall microbial growth by the nutrient supply from the fertilizers, potential microbial risk could not be completely ruled out in the organic-fertilized soil samples.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제17권8호
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• pp.1168-1176
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• 2004

Intensive animal industries create large volumes of nutrient rich effluent, which, if untreated, has the potential for substantial environmental degradation. Aquatic plants in aerobic lagoon systems have the potential to achieve inexpensive and efficient remediation of effluent, and to recover valuable nutrients that would otherwise be lost. Members of the family Lemnaceae (duckweeds) are widely used in lagoon systems, but despite their widespread use in the cleansing of sewage, only limited research has been conducted into their growth in highly eutrophic media, and little has been done to systematically distinguish between different types of media. This study examined the growth characteristics of duckweed in abattoir effluent, and explored possible ways of ameliorating the inhibitory factors to growth on this medium. A series of pot trials was conducted to test the tolerance of duckweed to abattoir effluent partially remediated by a sojourn in anaerobic fermentation ponds, both in its unmodified form, and after the addition of acid to manipulate pH, and the addition of bentonite. Unmodified abattoir effluent was highly toxic to duckweed, although duckweed remained viable and grew sub optimally in media with total ammonia nitrogen (TAN) concentrations of up to 100 mg/l. Duckweed also grew vigorously in effluent diluted 1:4 v/v, containing 56 mg TAN/L and also modified by addition of acid to decrease pH to 7 and by adding bentonite (0.5%).

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.137-145
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• 2004

Intensive animal industries create large volumes of nutrient rich effluent which, if untreated, has the potential for substantial environmental degradationand to recover valuable nutrients that would otherwise be lost. Members of the family Lemnaceae are widely used in lagoon systems, to achieve inexpensive and efficient remediation of effluent. Only limited research has been conducted into their growth in highly eutrophic media and there has been little done to systematically distinguish between different types of media. This study examined the growth characteristics of duckweed in abattoir effluent and explored possible ways of ameliorating the inhibitory factors to growth on this medium. A series of pot trials was conducted to test the tolerance of duckweed to abattoir effluent partially remediated by a sojourn in anaerobic fermentation ponds, both in its unmodified form and after the addition of acid to manipulate pH, and the addition of bentonite. Unmodified abattoir effluent was highly toxic to duckweed, even at dilutions of 3:1. Duckweed remained viable and grew sub-optimally in simplified media with total ammonia nitrogen (TAN) concentrations of up to 100 mg/L. Duckweed grew vigorously in effluent diluted 1:4 v/v, containing 56 mg TAN/L when modified by addition of acid (to decrease pH to 7) and bentonite at 0.5%. The results of this study suggest that bentonite plays an important role in modifying the toxicity of abattoir effluent to duckweed.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제17권11호
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• pp.35-43
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• 2016

이 연구는 복합발효미생물을 이용하여 유수지 악취 제거와 유수지 토양에 흡착된 오염물질의 정화효과를 확인하고, 현장 적용성 시험을 바탕으로 토양오염 정화시스템을 개발하기 위한 것이다. 토양 내에 침전된 유기오염물질을 분석하여 악취유발 원인과 토양오염 물질을 확인하였다. 개발된 복합발효미생물과의 혼합발효를 이용하여 악취와 오염물질을 분해하는 것이 가능함을 확인하였으며, 유수지 오염토의 물리 화학적 구성과 토양에 흡착된 오염물질을 확인하여 악취의 원인을 규명하였다. 또한, 복합발효미생물과 유수지토의 혼합실험을 통해 혼합방법에 따른 오염물질 제거효율을 분석하였다. 아울러, 복합미생물을 이용한 악취 제거 방법은 한 종류의 미생물을 이용하는 것보다 오염 제거에 효과적임을 확인하였다. 복합발효미생물을 이용한 방법은 자연정화처리 방법에 비해 악취농도가 2.5배 저감하는 것으로 측정되었으며, 토양으로부터 배출된 간극수의 수질이 개선된 것으로 나타났다. 또한, 복합발효미생물과 유수지 혼합토의 교반실험에서 토양입자 표면에 흡착된 구리와 납이 각각 65%와 66%로 저감되는 것을 확인하였으며, 유기물인 TPH 성분은 85%의 저감 효과가 있는 것을 확인하였다. 복합미생물을 이용한 유수지 오염토의 복원은 교반과 혼합비에 대한 기초자료 축적을 통해 악취와 토양오염을 효율적으로 저감시킬 수 있는 장기적인 정화시스템을 개발하고 적용할 필요가 있다.