Title : Wastewater scanning of paper industries with reference to bacterial diversity and water quality: A combined approach
Abstract:
The bacterial community structure along with their role in predicted metabolism in the wastewater of Indian Paper
Industries is poorly understood. In the present work, effort has been made to characterize the bacterial diversity using 16S (V3-V4 region) rRNA gene amplicon sequencing data with special reference to physicochemical parameters. Results obtained revealed the presence of bacterial taxa belonging to the genera like Cloacibacterium, Aerococcus, Chryseobacterium, Microbacterium, Acinetobacter, Sphingobium etc. that were involved in the predicted metabolic pathways like carbohydrate metabolism, fatty acid and aromatic compounds biosynthesis as well as degradation. Canonical correspondence analysis confirmed a significant correlation between the bacterial diversity loads and environmental preferences. Further, the chemical oxygen demand, biochemical oxygen demand, and total suspended solids exceeded the acceptable limits prescribed by Central Pollution Control Board New Delhi, Government of India, for discharge of wastewater. Moreover, the presence of these bacterial diversity in the wastewater treatment plant of paper industries may affect the maintenance as well as paper quality. In future, it will provide a benchmark for the better understanding and management of wastewater treatment plant in paper industries across the globe.
Audience Take Away:
• Baseline data about the Bacterial Diversity in the wastewater of Indian Paper Industries.
• It will let the audience to know about the metagenomics approach fused with Water Quality Analysis.
• The audience will learn about the environmental preferences of the bacterial genera.
• The audience will learn about the functional role of bacterial diversity in the wastewater treatment.
