Increasing Efficiency of Waste Water Treatment of Wine-Making Enterprises with Simultaneous Production of Bio Surface for Oil Industry
A method for pre-treatment of wastewater with the simultaneous production of biological surface-active substances (bio-surfactants) by deep cultivation of the microscopic fungus Hypomyces odoratus in the wastewater of a winery has been developed. In wastewater after cultivation of the fungus under aerobic conditions for 12 hours, a steady decrease in BOD was observed by 2.5 times, COD by 3 times, the content of suspended solids, sulfates, phosphates, ammonium ions, nitrates, nitrites, anionic surfactants decreased significantly substances (ACAS), cationic surfactants (CAS), wastewater in chemical composition began to approach the indicators of municipal sewage. The complexity of the composition obtained during the cultivation of the biomass fungus and the isolated exopolysaccharide contributed to a decrease in the surface tension of the oil and indicated that the fungus synthesizes the bio-surfactant complex. After contact with a 12-hour mass of fungus or exopolysaccharide obtained from biomass in highly viscous, water-flooded bituminized oil, an improvement in rheological indices was noted, and the water cut and content of paraffin deposits decreased.