To accelerate the efficiency of methane biodegradation in landfills,a Gram-negative,rod-shaped,non-motile,non-spore-forming bacterium,JTA1,which can utilize methane as well as acetate,was isolated from the Laogang MSW landfills,Shanghai,China.Strain JTA1 was a member of genus Methylocystis on the basis of 16S rRNA and pmoA gene sequence similarity.The maximum specific cell growth rates(μmax=0.042 hr-1,R2=0.995) was derived through Boltzmann simulation,and the apparent half-saturation constants(Km(app)=7.08mmol/L,R2=0.982) was calculated according to Michaelis-Menton hyperbolic model,indicating that Methylocystis strain JTA1 had higher-affinity potential for methane oxidation than other reported methanotrophs.By way of adding the strain JTA1 culture,the methane consumption of aged refuse reached 115mL,almost two times of control experiment.In addition,high tolerance of Methylocystis strain JTA1 to chloroform could facilitate the methane oxidation of aged refuse bio-covers.At the chloroform concentration of 50mg/L,the methane-oxidation rate of bio-cover reached 0.114mL/(day·g),much higher than the highest rate,0.0135mL/(day·g),of reported bio-covers.In conclusion,strain JTA1 opens up a new possibility for environmental biotechnology,such as soil or landfills bioremediation and wastewater decontamination.
This research evaluated the use of sewage sludge and refuse incineration bottom ash to replace calcium sulfoaluminate cement(CS(_)A) in making controlled low-strength material(CLSM).Various properties of CLSM mixtures were characterized in terms of unconfined compressive strength,microstructure and leachability.It was found that the strength of tested CLSM mixtures ranged from 3.6 to 9.0 MPa,over the upper excavatable limit of 2.1 MPa.The micro-structural analysis revealed that sewage sludge and bottom ash were crystallochemically in-corporated within CLSM systems by forming the needle-like ettringite(C3A?3CS(_)?H32) with exiguous tubers via the typical Pozzolanic Reaction,leading to a dense and low-porosity microstructure.Furthermore,the toxicity charac-teristic leaching procedure evidenced that the cumulative leachable metals in the leachate were much below the regulatory thresholds.The potential for using sewage sludge and bottom ash in CLSM making was thus confirmed.
