호기성 미생물을 이용한 크롬의 생물학적 환원 = Biological Reduction of Chromium by Aerobic Microorganism

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Chromium occurs naturally in the earth's crust as well as in air, surface, and ground water. However, chromium is released to the environment in much larger amounts as a result of human activities. Hexavalent chromium, Cr(Ⅵ), is very soluble in water in natural environment and very toxic, carcinogenic, and mutagenic in animal and man. On the other hand trivalent chromium, Cr(Ⅲ), is less toxic and less soluble and thus is a lesser problem. This study has been carried out in order to reduce toxicity of Cr(Ⅵ) by an Escherichia coli strain. After adding E. Coli., the results were obtained from concentration of total Cr, Cr(Ⅵ). Cr(Ⅲ), pH, turbidity, and VSS in aerobic condition was summarized as follows : After 48hr aerobic condition in experiment of synthetic wastewater, the reduction rate of Cr(Ⅵ) was 20%. Also, the reduction rate of Cr(Ⅵ) was 60% in experiment of raw wastewater.