Investigating the ability of sulfur oxidizing strains in biodesulfurisation of sulfide-containing streams, screening the most capable strain and determining the optimum condition for elemental sulfur recovery from sulfide using response surface method

Beside numerous chemical methods, biological methods were developed to remove sulfide from streams using Sulfur Oxidizing Bacteria (SOB). Because of the wide variety of such bacteria and deep difference in their capability, the ability of seven well-known SOBs were investigated. According to the results T. versutus and T. aerophilum were selected as capable bacteria for further experiments. The valuable product of sulfide oxidation is elemental...