ACS analysis

Municipal wastewater contains large amounts of organic matter and food oil , which enter wastewater treatment plants, where they are treated via conventional activated sludge (AS) processes. A wide variety of bacteria that can utilize and degrade different organic matter exists in AS. Effective and sustainable removal systems for waste food oil can be developed if the bacterial group in AS that is responsible for the degradation of oil can be identified. However, information on which bacterial groups can degrade oil present in sewage is limited. High-throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies have been applied to investigate the diversity and abundance of microorganisms in wastewater treatment systems [1-3]. We have used an HTS technology to study the proximal changes in microbial community structure during the degradation of synthetic oil-contaminated water with AS from three different sources .