Research on the Flocculation Mechanism of Microbial Flocculants

Author

Wei Wei ; Rongli Yu ; Yashu Yuan ; Gang Wang

Author_Institution

Municipal & Environ. Eng. Coll., Shenyang Jianzhu Univ., Shenyang, China

fYear

2010

fDate

18-20 June 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Microbial Flocculants is a kind of metabolic products with flocculating activity being produced by microbes and secreted outside of cells. It has the characteristics of easy degradability, highly efficiency, non-toxicity and non-secondary pollution. The flocculation mechanism of Microbial Flocculants is more complicated than the conventional flocculation theories. Through summarizing the relevant domestic and overseas research literatures published in the recent years, this paper has made a summarization and conclusion on the various flocculation theories of Microbial Flocculants in detail, and pointed out the existing problems in the present research and proposed an expectation on the development trend in the future.

Keywords

biochemistry; cellular biophysics; environmental degradation; flocculation; microorganisms; molecular biophysics; cells; degradability; flocculation mechanism; metabolic products; microbial flocculants; nonsecondary pollution; nontoxicity; Bonding forces; Chemical processes; Civil engineering; Educational institutions; Extracellular; Hydrogen; Polymers; Thermal degradation; Viscosity; Water pollution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE), 2010 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

ISSN

2151-7614

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4712-1

Electronic_ISBN

2151-7614

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBBE.2010.5516070

Filename

5516070