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Bioremediation of Tannery Effluent by Selected Fungal Species

Deepa1*, K. Valivittan2, Indira Vincent3 and C. S. Tharadevi4

1,2Department Of Biotechnology, St. Peter’s University, Avadi, Chennai - 600 054 India.

3Department Of Zoology, Presidency College, Chennai - 600 005 India.

4Department Of Zoology, Sree Ayyappa College For Women, Nagercoil - 629 003 India.

Corresponding Author E-mail: reghudeep09@gmail.com

ABSTRACT: Microbial population has amazing enzymatic and metabolic potential to degrade a variety of organic compounds. Eighteen species of fungi were isolated from leather tanning effluents from Thirumudivakkam, Chennai. Out of these four dominant species of fungi like Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus terreus, Paecilomyces varioti and Phanerochaete chrysosporium were selected and used for bioremediation of effluents. Individual and mixed cultures of fungi were used to control pH, BOD, COD, TSS and TDS in the tannery effluent. The biodegradation of tannery effluent was estimated at two different periods of incubation, on the 6th and 12th day. Among all experiments, biodegradation by using mixed culture of fungi showed better results than that by individual species.

KEYWORDS: Tannery effluents; Bioremediation; Colony forming units; Fungal species; pH; BOD; COD; TSS; TDS

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