Chemical Safety Science, 2017, Volume 1, No 2, p. 205 — 220

 

Utilization and biodegradation of wastes

UDC 579.695; 546.85; 502.55; 661.63                                        Download PDF (Rus)

DOI: 10.25514/CHS.2017.2.10995

 

INVOLVING WHITE PHOSPHORUS INTO NATURAL CYCLE OF BIOGENIC ELEMENTS

A. Z. Mindubaev¹*, A. D. Voloshina¹, N. V. Kulik¹, K. A. Saparmyradov², Kh. R. Khayarov², S. T. Minzanova¹, L. G. Mironova¹, and D. G. Yakhvarov¹

¹State Budgetary-Funded Institution of Science Arbuzov Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry of Kazan Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kazan’, Russia

²Kazan (Volga region) Federal university, Kazan’, Russia

Received June 27, 2017

Published December 25, 2017

Abstract – The results of examining biodegradation of a hazardous toxicant – white phosphorus are presented, which confirm a hypothesis of involving elemental phosphorus into natural cycle of biogenic elements. The involvement of white phosphorus in the biomass of growing microorganisms after their inoculation into culture media containing white phosphorus as the single source of phosphorus has been reliably demonstrated for the first time. It has been shown that microorganisms of different taxonomic groups (i.e. bacteria, mold fungi, streptomycetes) exhibit different kinds of resistance to white phosphorus in the course of its biodegradation. A hypothetical scheme is proposed for biodegradation of white phosphorus in the open environment.

Keywords: detoxification, white phosphorus, Pseudomonas alcaliphila, Streptomyces sp., Aspergillus niger, Trichoderma asperellum, culture medium, chemical equilibrium, phosphorus natural cycle.