Biotechnological process for neutralizing alkaline beverage industrial waste water
AssigneeCouncil of Scientific and Industrial Research
InventorsRita Kumar, Anil Kumar
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Abstract
The present invention provides a process of neutralizing beverage industrial wastewater by a bacterial strain Exiguobacterium sp. isolated in India, which strain is capable of bring down the pH of wastewater from 12.00 to 7.00 units within 1 to 1.5 hours.
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A biologically pure culture of the strain Exiguobacterium sp., identification number MTCC 5183, deposited at International Depository at IMTECH, Sector 39A, Chandigarh, India, said strain being capable of growth in a medium with a pH in the range of 10-12.00 and being capable of lowering a pH of 12.0 to 11.5 of beverage industrial wastewater to a neutral pH of 7.5 to 7.00 within a period of 1-1.5 hours, said strain being Gram positive, non motile, rod shaped and oxidase negative, and being capable of hydrolyzing starch and producing acids from glycerol cellobiose, D-mannose, mannitol, methyl .alpha.-D-glucoside, amygdalin and arbutin.
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