Stream Periphytic Biodegradation of the Anionic Surfactant C12-Alkyl Sulfate at Environmentally Relevant Concentrations

Lee, David M.; Guckert, James B.; Ventullo, Roy M.; Davidson, Daniel; Belanger, Scott E.

doi:10.1006/eesa.1996.1518

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“…As a class of compounds, linear AS undergoes rapid primary and ultimate biodegradation (Gilbert and Pettigrew, 1984; Swisher, 1987; Beratergremium fur Umweltrelevante Altstoffe [BUA], 1996; HERA, 2002; OECD, 2007; Könnecker et al, 2011). Rapid biodegradation of C 12 AS was also observed in river water (Guckert et al, 1996; Lee et al, 1997b) and seawater (Sales et al, 1987; Vives-Rego et al, 1987). Kikuchi (1985) and Knaggs et al (1965) reported biodegradation half-lives for C 12 AS ranging from 0.3 to 1 day in surface waters.…”

Section: Surfactant Overviewmentioning

confidence: 94%

Environmental Safety of the Use of Major Surfactant Classes in North America

Cowan-Ellsberry¹,

Belanger

Dorn

et al. 2014

Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology

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This paper brings together over 250 published and unpublished studies on the environmental properties, fate, and toxicity of the four major, high-volume surfactant classes and relevant feedstocks. The surfactants and feedstocks covered include alcohol sulfate or alcohol sulfate (AS), alcohol ethoxysulfate (AES), linear alkylbenzene sulfonate (LAS), alcohol ethoxylate (AE), and long-chain alcohol (LCOH). These chemicals are used in a wide range of personal care and cleaning products. To date, this is the most comprehensive report on these substance's chemical structures, use, and volume information, physical/chemical properties, environmental fate properties such as biodegradation and sorption, monitoring studies through sewers, wastewater treatment plants and eventual release to the environment, aquatic and sediment toxicity, and bioaccumulation information. These data are used to illustrate the process for conducting both prospective and retrospective risk assessments for large-volume chemicals and categories of chemicals with wide dispersive use. Prospective risk assessments of AS, AES, AE, LAS, and LCOH demonstrate that these substances, although used in very high volume and widely released to the aquatic environment, have no adverse impact on the aquatic or sediment environments at current levels of use. The retrospective risk assessments of these same substances have clearly demonstrated that the conclusions of the prospective risk assessments are valid and confirm that these substances do not pose a risk to the aquatic or sediment environments. This paper also highlights the many years of research that the surfactant and cleaning products industry has supported, as part of their environmental sustainability commitment, to improve environmental tools, approaches, and develop innovative methods appropriate to address environmental properties of personal care and cleaning product chemicals, many of which have become approved international standard methods.

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Section: Surfactant Overviewmentioning

confidence: 94%

Environmental Safety of the Use of Major Surfactant Classes in North America

Cowan-Ellsberry¹,

Belanger

Dorn

et al. 2014

Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology

157

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“…Linear alkylbenzene sulphonates (LAS), the typical anionic surfactant, is readily degradable with a half-life of 1-87 days once applied to the aerobic soil environment (Scott and Jones 2000). Lee et al used stream periphyton to degrade anionic surfactant and found that stream periphyton were able to rapidly degrade the anionic surfactant C12-alkyl sulfate (SDS) at environmentally relevant concentrations (Lee et al 1997). Abd-allah et al also demonstrated that biodegradation of anionic surfactant (XP-100) was enhanced in the presence of yeast and organic contaminants using two different steps for microbial adaptation (Abd-allah and Srorr 1998).…”

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confidence: 99%

Co-degradation with glucose of four surfactants, CTAB, Triton X-100, SDS and Rhamnolipid, in liquid culture media and compost matrix

Zeng

Zhong

et al. 2006

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Strengthened biodegradation is one of the key means to treat surfactant pollution in environment, and microorganism and surfactant have significant effects on degradation. In this paper, co-degradation of CTAB, Triton X-100, SDS and rhamnolipid with glucose by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Bacillus subtilis and compost microorganisms in liquid culture media, as well as the degradation of rhamnolipid in compost were investigated. The results showed that CTAB was recalcitrant to degrade by the three microorganisms and it also inhibited microorganisms from utilizing readily degradable carbon source. Non-ionic surfactant Triton X-100 could also hardly be degraded, but it was not toxic to microorganisms and would not inhibit the growth of the microorganisms. Anion surfactant SDS had no toxicity to microorganisms and could be co-degraded as carbon source with glucose. Biosurfactant rhamnolipid was a kind of particular surfactant, which had no toxicity and could be degraded by Bacillus subtilis and compost microorganisms, while it could not be utilized by its producing bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Among these three bacteria, the compost consortium had the strongest degradation capacity on the tested surfactants due to their microorganisms' diversity. In compost matrix rhamnolipid could be degraded during composting, but not preferentially utilized.

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“…Anionic surfactants show marked biological activity either by binding to bioactive macromolecules such as proteins (Nielsen et al 2000), peptides (Marques et al 2000), or destabilize phospholipid membranes (Cserháti et al 2002). However, there are some contradictory reports where use of SDS can be nontoxic (Lee et al 1997;Zeng et al 2007). …”

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“…On other hand, SDS was selectively toxic toward B. megaterium and even somewhat higher than CTAC. In some other studies, SDS has been shown to be biodegradable and nontoxic (Lee et al 1997), but exceptions are equally apparent (Hrenovic and Ivankovic 2007). Role of anionic surfactants are ambiguous, ranging from toxic effect on living organisms to induction of contaminant decomposition and/or removal from the environment (Cserháti et al 2002).…”

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Effect of Surfactants on CO2 Biomineralization with Sporosarcina pasteurii and Bacillus megaterium

Cho

Mahanty

Kim

2014

Water Air Soil Pollut

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Surfactant can reduce the interfacial tension in liquid-gas system and may probably improve the rate and/or extent of dissolution. This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of three different surfactants (viz., sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), Triton X-100, and cetyltrimethylammonium chloride (CTAC)) on CO 2 biomineralization by two ureolytic microorganismSporosarcina pasteurii and Bacillus megaterium. In S. pasteurii-mediated biomineralization, headspace CO 2 content (2.5 mM) was decreased by 40, 52, and 68 % in the presence of SDS, Triton X-100 or CTAC, respectively within the first 8 h of incubation. CO 2 removal with B. megaterium in the presence of Triton X-100 (64 %) and CTAC (56 %) was better in comparison to control without surfactant (48 %). However, appreciable CO 2 depletion was not observed with SDS, which was just 4 %. On other hand, headspace CO 2 loss in the presence of CTAC with B. megaterium did not get biomineralized, as no calcium carbonate was detected. Crystalline phase and morphology of CaCO 3 precipitate also varied between ionic and nonionic surfactants. The result suggests that the effect of surfactant on CO 2 capture and biomineralization can be largely different, depending on the surfactant and concerned microbial species involved.

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Stream Periphytic Biodegradation of the Anionic Surfactant C12-Alkyl Sulfate at Environmentally Relevant Concentrations

Cited by 11 publications

References 18 publications

Environmental Safety of the Use of Major Surfactant Classes in North America

Environmental Safety of the Use of Major Surfactant Classes in North America

Co-degradation with glucose of four surfactants, CTAB, Triton X-100, SDS and Rhamnolipid, in liquid culture media and compost matrix

Effect of Surfactants on CO2 Biomineralization with Sporosarcina pasteurii and Bacillus megaterium

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