PJB-2023-93
Effect of aromatic hydrocarbons on Chlorella vulgaris growth
Pérez Romero Cindy A., Samuel Enciso Sáenz, Roció Meza Gordillo and José Humberto Castañón González
Abstract
Currently, there are multiple reports of the use of microorganisms to remove hydrocarbons. However, few reports evaluate the effect of benzene, toluene, and xylene on microalgae growth. Benzene, Toluene, and Xylene are aromatic hydrocarbon mixtures, commonly known as BTX. For this work, the effect of different concentrations of benzene, toluene, and xylene on microalgal growth was evaluated, starting with an inoculum of 8 x106 cel/ml, after that, the microalgae were cultivated for 8 days, during which a cell count was performed, and the kinetic parameters of biomass growth were determined. The results have shown that the microalgae known as C. vulgaris had higher growth in the presence of Toluene at 0.50 mg/l, meanwhile, the benzene and xylene treatments in the concentrations used, were under the control treatment
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Pérez-Romero, C.A., S.E. Sáenz, R.M. Gordillo and J.H. Castañón-González. 2024. Effect of aromatic hydrocarbons on Chlorella vulgaris growth. Pak. J. Bot., 56(5): DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.30848/PJB2024-5(17)
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