BIODEGRADATION OF DISTILLERY EFFLUENT BY FUNGI

In the present work biodegradation ability of Chaetomium globosum and Aspergillus nidulans have been evaluated. Physical and chemical analysis of effluent collected from Sanjivani distillery industry located at Kopergaon, Dist Ahemadnagar. (M.S) India were carried out to observe the changes in Turbidity, pH, TSS,TDS, COD, Sodium and Magnesium using Chaetomium globosum and Aspergillus nidulans. Chaetomium globosum and Aspergillus nidulans were isolated from soil sample collected from Bhavan’s College campus and purified by serial soil dilution method. Both the fungi were found to reduce the pollutant dynamically. The reduction was noticed at 4hrs, 8hrs, 12hrs, and 24 hours of time interval. Quantity of fungal inoculum in terms of discs, showed its quantitative effect for reduction of pollutants. In case of Chaetomium globosum with one disc of inoculum showed more significant changes (P< 0.05) with TSS and COD level, whereas addition of two and three discs of inoculum more significant changes were noticed in pH, turbidity, TSS, COD level and Mg reduction. For Aspergillus nidulans when only one disc of inoculum was added only two parameters (TSS, and COD) showed the significant changes. (P< 0.05) by adding Two discs of inoculum parameters like TSS, TDS and COD showed the significant changes. While with three discs of inoculum, the significant changes were noticed in pH, TSS, and COD.