ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Remediating Chlorpyrifos-Contaminated
Soil Using Immobilized Microorganism
Technology
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School of Science, Shenyang University of Technology, Shenyang, China
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Pinghu Environmental Protection Bureau of Zhejiang Province, Pinghu, China
Submission date: 2017-12-03
Final revision date: 2018-01-04
Acceptance date: 2018-01-20
Online publication date: 2018-08-13
Publication date: 2018-11-20
Corresponding author
Jia Bao
Shenyang University of Technology, China
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2019;28(1):349-357
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ABSTRACT
Chlorpyrifos, one of the common broad-spectrum insecticides, can damage the human nerve
system – even to the point of death under long-term exposure. In addition, chlorpyrifos is hard to be
naturally degraded because of its strong combination with soil particles and long half-life. So repairing
the polluted soil is urgently needed. In this study, the embedding and crosslinking immobilization
techniques were used to determine the degradation of chlorpyrifos in soil. After 16SrDNA analysis, the
results showed that LLBD2 is Bacillus cereus and LLBD4 is bacillus sp., and bacteria immobilized on
the degradation of chlorpyrifos were significantly better than the free bacteria. The degradation rate
reached 83.28% after LLBD2 being immobilized within 72 h. Furthermore, the environmental factors
influenced with LLBD2 showed that immobilized bacteria were more adapted to the changed environment
than the free one. Although the initial concentration, pH, and temperature were significantly changed,
the degradation rate of chlorpyrifos by immobilized bacteria was stable, suggesting that environmental
factors had little influence on the immobilized bacteria.