Abstract: Biobutanol has vast potential as a drop-in alternative to fossil fuel (1, 2). Butanol can be produced biologically by Clostridium beijerinckii and Clostridium acetobutylicum although biological production is uneconomical due to low process yields which account for high recovery costs by distillation (2-4). Poor microbiological solvent tolerance underlies poor process yields in biological solventogenesis, including butanol production. Solvents are known to compromise the integrity of biological membrane, accordingly research endeavours to develop solvent tolerant microbes have focused on shoring up membrane integrity in instances of solvent challenge using engineering, metabolic an adaptive approaches (2, 5-10). Membrane Insertion Molecules (MIMs) are molecules that modify cell function or stability by intercalating into the phospholipid bilayer of microbial membranes. There are two types of MIM; those designed to act as antimicrobial agents, killing cells by destabilizing the lipid bil

• Publication Date: 27-Aug-2014
• DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-026-2-59
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Abstract: Contaminated phosphorus in aquatic environments is a critical problem. This research studied on removal of phosphorus from domestic wastewater by using Echinodorus cordifolius augmented with Pseudomonas putida and Flavobacterium oryzihabitans. Plants treated phosphorus from domestic wastewater for 20 test runs continuously, the effect of phosphorus treatment by microorganisms in domestic wastewater was very high at 58% in the first test run. Therefore, P. putida and F. oryzihabitans that were dominant microorganisms in domestic wastewater were inoculated in the system to contribute plants for phosphorus treatment. The result found that E. cordifolius augmented with P. putida and E. cordifolius augmented with mixed microorganisms (P. putida and F. oryzihabitans) could reduce phosphorus in domestic wastewater until passed standard criteria only 14 hrs. Moreover, it was found that the plants were healthy and increased growth rate in a month obviously conform to the increase of plant bioma

• Publication Date: 27-Aug-2014
• DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-026-2-71
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