AccScience Publishing / AJWEP / Volume 16 / Issue 4 / DOI: 10.3233/AJW190042
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Decolourization and Degradation of Reactive Textile Dyes by Isolated Strain Proteus mirabilis

H.G. Madhushika1* Thilini U. Ariyadasa1 S.H.P. Gunawardena1
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1 Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
AJWEP 2019, 16(4), 1–6; https://doi.org/10.3233/AJW190042
Submitted: 26 July 2017 | Revised: 17 June 2019 | Accepted: 17 June 2019 | Published: 6 November 2019
© 2019 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

Dyes used in textile industries are considered to be toxic and create pollution problems when released  to the environment without proper treatments. Biological effluent decolourization techniques can be suggested  as a remediation for this pollution problem. In the present study, a bacterial strain was isolated from an effluent  treatment plant of a textile industry. This strain was able to decolourize 50 ppm dye solutions of Sumifix Supra  Yellow EXF, Sumifix Supra Red EXF, Sumifix Supra Blue EXF and Cibacron Black WNN up to 96%, 94%, 83%  and 95% respectively under static conditions at 35°C within 72 h of treatment. Further, the potential of this strain  to decolourize mixture of these four dyes was evaluated under shaking and static conditions. Decolourization of  the dyes was confirmed by UV–VIS analysis results and the strain was identified as Proteus mirabilis by using  16srRNA gene sequencing analysis.

Keywords
Biodegradation
decolourization
dyes
effluent.
Conflict of interest
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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