[Advanced Treatment of Effluent from Industrial Park Wastewater Treatment Plant by Ferrous Ion Activated Sodium Persulfate].

Fe(II) activated sodium persulfate (PS) technology was used for advanced treatment of effluent from industrial park wastewater treatment plant. Separate and combined effects of PS/COD, Fe(II)/PS and pH on COD and TOC removal were analyzed by the response surface methodology. Variations of organic substances before and after Fe(II)-PS oxidation were characterized by UV-Vis spectrometry, gel chromatography and three-dimensional fluorescence. PS/COD and Fe(II)/PS had significant effect on COD removal, while all the three factors had significant effect on TOC removal. The combined effect of PS/COD and pH had significant effect on COD removal. COD and TOC removal efficiencies reached 50.7% and 60.6% under optimized conditions of PS/COD 3.47, Fe(II)/PS 3.32 and pH 6.5. Fe(II)-PS oxidation converted macromolecular organic substances to small ones, and reduced contents of protein-, humic- and fulvic-like substances.

[Construction of combined site-directed random mutation libraries of recombinant human lymphotoxin].

To construct the combined site-directed random mutation library of recombinant human Lymphotoxin (rhLT) for in vitro molecular evolution study, and to study the structure and function relationship. The random point mutations at the sites of 46,106 and 130 were individually generated by overlap PCR amplification with the random nucleotide primers. The three point mutations were combined and cloned into pMD-18T vector to construct the combined mutation library. DNA sequencing was used to evaluate the diversity and randomness of the mutation sites. The combined mutation library was re-engineered, inserted in prokaryotic expression vector pBV220, transformed and expressed in Escherichia coli strain DH5alpha. The biological activity of some of the mutants was tested in 1929 mouse fibroblast cells. As much as 1.5 x 10(5) clones were obtained, which represents 4.5 times of the complete mutation libraries at 99% confidence. Sequencing 50 clones revealed no obvious bias in the nucleotide and amino acid mutations at the sites. Among the 30 expressed samples underwent for the bioassay, 70% (21 samples) were inactive, 23.3% (7 samples) had lower activity than rhLT, the remaining 6.7% (2 samples) had higher activity than rhLT. The combined site-directed random mutation library of rhLT has been constructed successfully. In combination with phase display, the library is ready for in vitro molecular evolution study.

Conversion of organic carbon in the decomposable organic wastes in anaerobic lysimeters under different temperatures.

The quantitative fractions of conversion of organic carbon in the decomposable organic wastes with initial moisture of 70% sorted from municipal solid wastes (MSW) in lysimeters into biogas, leachate and solid residue were characterized, under temperatures of 25, 30 and 41 degrees C, respectively, and circulation of leachate generated within the lysimeter. It is found that 27% of organic carbon in the wastes are conversed into gases, 0.8% into leachate, and the other 72% remained in the decomposable solid residues, after 180 days' degradation at 41 degrees C. Higher temperature will lead to more rapid degradation and result to higher conversion of the organic carbon to biogas and lower to both solid residues and leachate, while the pollutant concentrations in leachate will be lower at a higher temperature and the values of COD are quite consistent with TOC.