Deciphering the role of extracellular polymeric substances in the adsorption and biotransformation of organic micropollutants during anaerobic wastewater treatment

•HLOMPs could be removed by EPS, while HBOMPs could not.•EPS provided abundant binding sites for HLOMPs adsorption.•HLOMPs bound to EPS by hydrogen bonds, hydrophobic interactions and water bridges.•c-Cyts in EPS aided HLOMPs biotransformation. Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) participate in...

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Veröffentlicht in:Water research (Oxford) 2024-06, Vol.257, p.121718-121718, Article 121718
Hauptverfasser: Wang, Lianxu, Lei, Zhen, Zhang, Zixin, Yang, Xiaohuan, Chen, Rong
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Zusammenfassung:•HLOMPs could be removed by EPS, while HBOMPs could not.•EPS provided abundant binding sites for HLOMPs adsorption.•HLOMPs bound to EPS by hydrogen bonds, hydrophobic interactions and water bridges.•c-Cyts in EPS aided HLOMPs biotransformation. Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) participate in the removal of organic micropollutants (OMPs), but the primary pathways of removal and detailed mechanisms remain elusive. We evaluated the effect of EPS on removal for 16 distinct chemical classes of OMPs during anaerobic digestion (AD). The results showed that hydrophobic OMPs (HBOMPs) could not be removed by EPS, while hydrophilic OMPs (HLOMPs) were amenable to removal via adsorption and biotransformation of EPS. The adsorption and biotransformation of HLOMPs by EPS accounted up to 19.4 ± 0.9 % and 6.0 ± 0.8 % of total removal, respectively. Further investigations into the adsorption and biotransformation mechanisms of HLOMPs by EPS were conducted utilizing spectral, molecular dynamics simulation, and electrochemical analysis. The results suggested that EPS provided abundant binding sites for the adsorption of HLOMPs. The binding of HLOMPs to tryptophan-like proteins in EPS formed nonfluorescent complexes. Hydrogen bonds, hydrophobic interactions and water bridges were key to the binding processes and helped stabilize the complexes. The biotransformation of HLOMPs by EPS may be attributed to the presence of extracellular redox active components (c-type cytochromes (c-Cyts), c-Cyts-bound flavins). This study enhanced the comprehension for the role of EPS on the OMPs removal in anaerobic wastewater treatment. [Display omitted]
ISSN:0043-1354
1879-2448
DOI:10.1016/j.watres.2024.121718