JP2012075396A - New oil and fat-decomposing bacterium, oil and fat-decomposing bacterial preparation and method for treating oil and fat-containing waste water - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide oil and fat-decomposing bacteria growable under an acidic condition and also decomposable of the oil and fat, and an oil and fat decomposition-treating agent containing the same.SOLUTION: The new oil and fat-decomposing bacteria belonging to the genus Burkholderia, are growable in an oil and fat-containing medium and/or in oil and fat-containing waste water at pH of 5 to 6, and decomposable of the oil and fat. The oil and fat-decomposing bacterial preparation contains one or a plurality of such the oil and fat-decomposing bacteria, and the method for treating the oil and fat-containing waste water includes treating the oil and fat-containing waste water under the acidic condition of pH of 5 to 6 by using them to reduce the amount of its oil and fat content.

Description

The present invention relates to a novel oil-degrading bacterium that efficiently decomposes fats and oils, a fat-and-oil-degrading bacterium preparation containing the same, and a method for treating oil-containing wastewater using them.

The number of restaurants has increased rapidly due to the development of the restaurant industry, but if a large amount of fat and oil contained in the wastewater from the kitchen flows into the sewage, it will solidify and cause blockage of the piping. Therefore, it is prohibited to drain wastewater discharged from all commercial kitchens such as restaurants, hotels, cafeterias, and lunch centers directly into public sewage, and grease traps (blockers) that block oil in the wastewater. It is obligated by law to purify the water before it is discharged (Article 12 of the Water Pollution Control Law and the Sewerage Law). Similarly, installation of grease traps is obligatory at meat processing plants, but the amount of oil and fat discharged has been increasing with the recent increase in demand for frozen foods.

Oils and fats accumulated in grease traps at restaurants and meat processing factories not only significantly reduce their functions, but also cause serious problems for business establishments that handle food such as the generation of odors and pests. In addition, the oil and fat that has flowed into the sewage due to excessive accumulation causes not only blockage of the piping but also spoilage and water pollution at the destination, which is also a problem from the viewpoint of environmental problems.

Therefore, various treatment methods for decomposing and / or removing the oil and fat accumulated in the grease trap have been proposed. For example, Patent Document 1 discloses that an oil emulsifier capable of removing oil in sewage accumulated in a grease trap, a deodorant, bacteria, etc., and an enzyme are mixed, and the grease trap internal consumption is characterized. An odor cleaning agent is disclosed.

In addition, a technique for decomposing oils and fats by the action of various microorganisms is known. For example, Patent Document 2 discloses a mixed microorganism that includes Rhodotrula pacifica and the like and can cope with a temperature change in a grease trap. Patent Document 3 and Patent Document 4 disclose the use of Burkholderia cepacia bacteria as oil-degrading bacteria.

JP 11-29792 A JP 2008-144202 A JP 2004-242553 A JP 2002-125659 A

However, each of the conventional techniques described above has the following unsolved problems.
For example, since the solubilization of fats and oils by the oil emulsifier in the deodorant cleaning agent in the grease trap described in Patent Document 1 is temporary, the fats and oils may coagulate and solidify in the sewer pipe and cause clogging of the piping. There is.

In order to reliably decompose fats and oils without adversely affecting the environment and people, the method using microorganisms is the most effective. However, microorganisms used in the prior art include those described in Patent Documents 2 to 4. In many cases, the ability of decomposing oils and fats in the environment of use is not sufficient, and it cannot be adapted to the on-site environment and does not result in proliferation. Generally, since the pH of waste water in a grease trap tends to be inclined toward the acidic side, microorganisms that can grow under acidic conditions and have high oil and fat degrading ability are required.

However, for the bacteria described in Patent Document 2, it is described that the treatment capacity is reduced by half or more in an environment of pH 6 as compared to an environment of pH 8. The bacterium described in Patent Document 3 is described as having high lipase activity, but since there is no description regarding pH, it is unclear whether a sufficient decomposition action on fats and oils in wastewater can be obtained. About the microbe of patent document 4, the fat-and-oil resolution | decomposability is disclosed to be about half of the case of pH8 in the environment of pH 5-6, and all are not enough.

The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and is capable of growing under acidic conditions and has a novel high-oil-degrading bacterium and a fat-and-oil-decomposing bacteria preparation containing the same, as well as fat-and-oil-containing wastewater using them. An object is to provide a processing method.

The 1st aspect of this invention in alignment with the said objective solves the said subject by providing the oil-and-oil decomposing bacteria of following (1)-(5) description.
(1) An oil-degrading bacterium that belongs to the genus Burkholderia, can grow in a fat-containing medium and / or fat-containing wastewater having a pH of 5 to 6, and can decompose the fat.
(2) The oil-degrading bacterium according to the above (1), which can be cultured in an acidic minimal medium containing only fat as a carbon source.
(3) The oil-degrading bacterium according to any one of (1) and (2), further having a protein resolution.
(4) The oil-degrading bacterium according to any one of (1) to (3), which is Burkholderia sp. AcL3-1 (Accession No. FERM P-21951).
(5) The oil-degrading bacterium according to any one of (1) to (3) above, which is Burkholderia sp. AcL13-2 (Accession No. FERM P-21953).

In the present specification, the expression “A and / or B” means “one or both of A and B”. That is, “A and / or B” includes “A only”, “B only”, and “both A and B”.

The second aspect of the present invention is:
(6) The above-described problems are solved by providing an oil-degrading bacterium preparation containing one or more oil-degrading bacteria described in any one of (1) to (5) above.

The third aspect of the present invention solves the above problems by providing a method for treating oil-containing wastewater described in the following (7) to (9).
(7) The processing method of the fat-and-oil wastewater which processes the fat-and-oil containing wastewater in the acidic condition of pH 5-6 using the fat-and-oil decomposition microbe formulation of said (6), and reduces the fat-and-fat content of this wastewater.
(8) The method for treating oil-containing wastewater according to (7), wherein the oil-and-fat content of the oil-containing wastewater is reduced to less than 50% before the treatment.
(9) The fat and oil-containing waste according to (7) or (8), wherein the oil-and-fat-containing wastewater also contains protein, and the fat-and-oil-decomposing bacteria preparation reduces the protein content as well as the fat and oil content. Wastewater treatment method.

One aspect of the present invention provides an oil-degrading bacterium characterized in that it belongs to the genus Burkholderia, can grow in an oil-containing medium under acidic conditions, and has a high resolution of the oil. Furthermore, this invention provides the strain which can also decompose | disassemble the protein which is another organic substance as an oil-and-oil decomposing bacterium which belongs to the said Burkholderia (Burkholderia) genus.

Further, the present invention provides, as another form, an oil-degrading bacterium preparation that decomposes fats and oils in wastes and wastewater using the oil-degrading bacteria and / or oil-degrading bacteria mixture, and oil-containing waste water using these preparations. A processing method is provided.

The fat-and-oil degrading bacteria of the present invention can grow and decompose oils and fats even under acidic conditions of pH 5, and therefore can decompose oils and fats even in acidic wastewater stored in a grease trap. In addition, since the oil-degrading bacterium of the present invention is a bacterium, since it produces lipase, mass cultivation is relatively easy compared to candida which is often used in microbial preparations for oil-degrading, Handling on site is relatively easy. As described above, according to the present invention, there are provided a novel oil-degrading bacterium capable of efficient industrial production, growing under the actual use conditions of a grease trap and having a high oil-degrading ability, and an oil-and-oil decomposing agent containing the same. Is done.

The novel oil-degrading bacterium according to the first embodiment of the present invention belongs to the genus Burkholderia, can grow in an oil-containing medium having a pH of 5-6, and can decompose oils in the medium.

In searching for an oil-degrading bacterium that can grow under the actual conditions of use of a grease trap and that has a high oil-fat decomposability, we investigated a number of grease trap wastewaters containing fats and oils. 6 was found to be acidic. Therefore, an oil-degrading bacterium that decomposes oil and fat collected in a grease trap with high efficiency needs to satisfy the condition that it can grow even under conditions of pH 5 and has high oil-degradability even under such conditions. There is.

The search for oil-degrading bacteria is performed, for example, as follows. First, grease trap wastewater and soil in various places are collected, added to a minimal medium containing fats and oils, and cultured. At this time, the pH of the medium is adjusted to 5. When microorganisms that can use fats and oils as a carbon source in the minimal medium are present in the sample, the culture solution becomes cloudy due to the growth of the cells. After repeated transplantation of the clouded sample and accumulation culture, the culture solution is applied onto an oil-containing agar medium, and oil-degrading bacteria are selected. Thereafter, the selected candidate bacteria are isolated on a nutrient medium.

The classification and identification of the oil-degrading bacteria isolated by the above method can be performed using any known method. Specific examples of classification and identification methods include observation of fine morphology with an electron microscope, determination of DNA similarity by DNA-DNA hybridization, and the like, but there is a method of classification and identification from a partial base sequence of ribosomal RNA. Preferably used. Arbitrary well-known methods, such as PCR method, can be used for the determination of the partial base sequence of ribosomal RNA. When using the PCR method, the ribosomal RNA is 23S.
rRNA, 18S rRNA, 5.8S rRNA and the like can be appropriately selected and used, but 18S rRNA is preferably used. Any primer can be appropriately selected and used. In addition, any known software such as BLAST can be used to determine the homology of the partial base sequence.

In this way, several strains of fat and oil-degrading bacteria that efficiently decompose fat and oil under acidic conditions were obtained. For identification of these strains, 16S
As a result of determining the partial base sequence of rRNA, all were found to be novel microorganisms belonging to the genus Burkholderia. In addition, Burkholderia sp. (Burkholderia sp.)
sp.) AcL3-1 and Burkholderia
sp.) Two strains of AcL13-2 were isolated. These are registered in the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Patent Biological Depositary Center, Burkholderia SP (Burkholderia
sp.) AcL3-1 (Accession No. FERM P-21951), Burkholderia SP (Burkholderia)
sp.) AcL13-2 (Accession No. FERMP-21953).

The oil treatment agent using the oil-degrading bacterium of the present invention can be produced, for example, by adding an appropriate amount of the oil-degrading bacterium to a liquid nutrient medium and culturing at 25-30 ° C. for 1 day under aerobic conditions. .
Moreover, the fat-and-oil decomposing bacteria concerning this invention can also decompose | disassemble protein besides fats and oils. Since protein causes bad odor, it can be expected to be effective as a deodorant by decomposing protein along with oils and fats in waste and wastewater.

It should be noted that the growth of fat-degrading bacteria stops under acidic conditions of less than pH 5, but the fat-degrading activity is maintained when the lipase produced by the fat-degrading bacteria maintains activity even under such conditions. May be.

The oil-degrading bacteria preparation according to the second embodiment of the present invention includes one or more oil-degrading bacteria according to the first embodiment of the present invention. The formulation can take any form similar to microbial formulations used in grease traps and similar septic tanks and the like. In order to promote fat and oil decomposition, it is also possible to add a surfactant for expanding the surface area of fats and oils or minerals for promoting lipase activity to the fat and oil-degrading bacteria preparation.

The method for purifying fat-containing wastewater according to the third embodiment of the present invention is an oil-degrading bacterium preparation (hereinafter referred to as “formulation”) according to the second embodiment of the present invention manufactured as described above. The oil-containing wastewater having a pH of 5 to 6 is treated using a method of decomposing the contained fats and oils. In the treatment, the preparation may be put into the oil-containing wastewater staying in the grease trap, and the fats and oils floating in a solid or droplet form are decomposed by the grown oil-degrading bacteria.

As the amount of reduction of the fat content, ideally, the fat can be completely decomposed and removed, but the fat content is reduced to less than 50% before treatment, preferably less than 40%, more preferably less than 30%. It is preferable. Moreover, it is preferable that fat-and-oil degrading bacteria have protein resolving power and can reduce the protein content in the fat-and-oil containing wastewater.

Next, examples carried out for confirming the effects of the present invention will be described.

Screening for microorganisms that degrade oils and fats:
First, soil and grease trap wastewater from various locations were sampled and added to the culture media shown below and cultured. Among the cultured samples, those that became cloudy with a minimal medium containing fats and oils were subjected to enrichment culture by inoculating the culture solution 5 times. The culture solution in which the oil-degrading bacteria were accumulated was applied to an agar medium containing fat and an indicator to form colonies, and bacteria having high oil-decomposition were selected using the size of discoloration around the colonies as an index. Furthermore, this colony was isolated on a nutrient agar medium. Two strains of bacteria (Burkholderia) that efficiently break down fats and oils by the method described above
sp. AcL3-1, Burkholderia sp. AcL13-2) were obtained.
(Medium composition)
Yeast extract 1g
Ammonium sulfate 5g
Magnesium sulfate 1g
10g olive oil
1L of distilled water
pH
5.0 (hydrochloric acid)

The mycological properties of this microorganism are shown below.

Identification (base sequence analysis of 16S rDNA):
16S for 2 candidate stocks
Identification was performed by analyzing a partial base sequence of rDNA. First, each candidate strain was applied to a nutrient agar medium and cultured at 28 ° C. for 1 day. A small amount of the grown colonies were collected and suspended in distilled water to amplify a base sequence of about 500 bp at the 5 ′ end of 16S rDNA by PCR. PCR products were separated by agarose gel (0.7%) electrophoresis and purified using Wizard SV gel and PCR clean up system (promega) according to the attached protocol. The sequence reaction is Big Dye
cycle sequencing kit ver. 1.1 (ABI) was used according to the attached protocol. Further, the reaction product was recovered and the sequence was analyzed with a DNA sequencer. When FASTA search was performed on the nucleotide sequence, both candidate strains (AcL3-1, AcL13-2) were found to belong to the genus Burkholderia.

Oil degradation test:
As a pre-culture, appropriate amounts of candidate strains and products of other companies were added to a minimal liquid medium containing 1% of olive oil and cultured with shaking for 24 hours. 1% of the preculture was added to the following medium composition and cultured with shaking for 24 hours. Then, n-hexane extract content was measured as a parameter | index of residual fats and oils.
(Medium composition)
Polypeptone 5g
Yeast extract 5g
Sodium chloride 0.5g
10g olive oil
1L of distilled water
pH
5.0 (hydrochloric acid)

The results of the oil and fat decomposition test are shown below. The amount of fats and oils in the fat and oil decomposition test was measured using TLC (thin layer chromatography) using hexane as a developing solvent, and the amount of fats and oils decomposed was calculated with the n-hexane extract content of the control experiment being 100%. The results were as shown in Table 2 below.

As a result of the fat and oil decomposition test, the products of other companies had a decomposition rate of 0 to 16%, while the candidate strain showed a high decomposition rate of 85% or more.

Lipase activity measurement:
A culture solution was prepared by a culture method similar to that for the oil and fat decomposition test, and a culture supernatant was obtained by centrifugation (10,000 g, 5 minutes). Lipase kit S (DS Pharma Biomedical) was used according to the attached protocol.

As a result, the lipase activity of the AcL3-1 strain was 960 IU / L, and the lipase activity of AcL13-2 was 1266 IU / L.

Protein utilization experiments:
Burkholderia sp. AcL3-1 strain and AcL13-2 strain were cultured on the agar medium shown below, and the clear zone formed around the colony was observed as an indicator of skim milk (protein) degradation.
(Medium composition)
0.25g of polypeptone
Yeast extract 0.25g
Iron sulfate heptahydrate 10g
0.01 g of disodium hydrogen phosphate
Agar 15g
Skim milk 15g ^*
1L of distilled water
* Skim milk was sterilized (120 ° C, 20 minutes) in an autoclave and then mixed.

It was confirmed that both Burkholderia sp. AcL3-1 strain and AcL13-2 strain formed a clear zone around the colony and had protein resolution.

Organic waste and wastewater containing a large amount of fats and oils tend to be acidic due to free fatty acids, but the Burkholderia sp. AcL3-1 strain and AcL13-2 strain according to the present invention grow even under acidic conditions. And exhibits high oil and fat resolution. Furthermore, since these oil-degrading bacteria can also degrade proteins, they can also be used to reduce malodors caused by these oils and proteins.

FERM P-21951
FERM P-21953

Claims (9)

An oil-degrading bacterium characterized by belonging to the genus Burkholderia and capable of growing in an oil-containing medium and / or oil-containing wastewater having a pH of 5 to 6 and capable of decomposing the oil. 2. The oil-degrading bacterium according to claim 1, which can be cultured in an acidic minimal medium containing oil as a sole carbon source. The oil-degrading bacterium according to any one of claims 1 and 2, further having protein resolution. The oil-degrading bacterium according to any one of claims 1 to 3, which is Burkholderia sp. AcL3-1 (Accession No. FERM P-21952). 4. The oil-degrading bacterium according to any one of claims 1 to 3, which is Burkholderia sp. AcL13-2 (Accession No. FERM P-21953). An oil-degrading bacterium preparation comprising one or more oil-degrading bacteria according to any one of claims 1 to 5. A method for treating fat-containing wastewater, comprising treating fat-containing wastewater under acidic conditions of pH 5-6 using the oil-degrading fungus preparation according to claim 6 to reduce the fat content of the wastewater. The method for treating fat-and-oil-containing wastewater according to claim 7, wherein the fat-and-oil content of the fat-and-oil-containing wastewater is reduced to less than 50% before the treatment. The fat-and-oil-containing wastewater according to claim 7 or 8, wherein the fat-and-oil-containing wastewater also contains a protein, and the fat-and-oil-containing wastewater is reduced together with the fat-and-oil content by treating with the fat-and-oil-decomposing bacteria preparation. Processing method.