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Journal Article 
Biodegradation of xenobiotics in waste water from phenol-formaldehyde resin production 
Zagornaya, NB; Nikonenko, VU; Chekhovskaya, TP; Gvozdyak, PI 
1987 
0 
Soviet Journal of Water Chemistry and Technology
ISSN: 0734-1679 
9 
4 
95-97 
English 
The possibility of treating resin supernatant water from the manufacture of phenol/formaldehyde resins in anaerobic conditions using immobilized micro-organisms was examined. The supernatant water contained phenol, methanol and formaldehyde and there was no other acceptable treatment method except incineration. Experiments were conducted with micro-organisms immobilized on basalt fibre. It was established that methanol and formaldehyde could be completely removed, although the rate of phenol removal depended on its initial concentration and dilution rate and was in the range 0.009-0.12 g per litre.h.