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Improved exploitation ot the biocatalytic potential of mixed microbial populations within bioreactors

Reference	ABC12641
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Ian Thompson
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Professor C Knowles
Institution	NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Department	Atmosperic Pollution
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	103,268
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	14/11/2000
End date	14/11/2003
Duration	36 months

Abstract

The potential of mixed microbial populations in biotechnological applications, such as biocatalysis of chemically heterogeneous substrates, is enormous but poorly studied. The aim of this study is to investigate the biocatalytic activities of mixed microbial populations in chemically complex effluents, and use this information to improve the efficiency and reliability of bioreactors. Spent metal working fluids is the selected model, as these are a significant problem, chemically mixed and typically transformed by mixed populations. Using chemical analysis (HPLC, GC) we will relate chemical transformation rates to community composition data obtained by a range of phenotypic (culture, FAME) genotypic (DGGE and FISH) methods.

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Committee	Closed Committee - Engineering & Biological Systems (EBS)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	LINK: Applied Biocatalysis (ABC) [1993-1999]
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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