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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 24, 1999
Karl Otto Stetter, Regensburg, DE;
Harold Huber, Hausen, DE;
Cees Jan Nico Buisman, Harich, NL;
Henk Dijkman, Ijlst, NL;
Johannes Pieter Krol, Sneek, NL;
Biostar Development C.V., Balk, NL;
Abstract
A new sulfur-reducing bacterium denoted as KT7 is described. It is a low-GC Gram-positive bacterium related to the genus Desulfotomaculum, capable of reducing sulfite and sulfate to sulfide, having an optimum growth at a temperature between 48 and 70° C. at a pH of between 5 and 9 and at a conductivity of the liquid medium between 0 and 40 mS/cm. It can be used in a process for removing sulfur compounds from water, wherein the sulfur-containing water is subjected to anaerobic treatment with the new sulfur-reducing bacteria, with the addition of an electron donor. The sulfur-containing water can be spent scrubbing liquid from a flue gas desulfurization step.