NOVELTY – The E1 kraft paper effluent treatment technique comprises application of laccase hydroxamate enzyme mediator. The most effective agent is acetohydroxamic acid which gives 70 and 73 per cent degradation of phenols and of total organic carbon respectively, without any significant effect on the laccase. USE – In applied chemistry.
D15 (Chemical or biological treatment of water, industrial waste and sewage – including purification, sterilising or testing water, scale prevention, treatment of sewage sludge, regeneration of active carbon which has been used for water treatment and impregnating water with gas e.g. CO2, but excluding plant and anti-pollution devices (C02).); D16 (Fermentation industry – including fermentation equipment, brewing, yeast production, production of pharmaceuticals and other chemicals by fermentation, microbiology, production of vaccines and antibodies, cell and tissue culture and genetic engineering.)