Determination of amounts of some vitamin B groups in domestic wastewater treatment plants

Year 2015, Volume: 10 Issue: 2, 1 - 5, 01.06.2015

Fatih Selimoğlu Erdal Öbek Fikret Karataş E. İşıl Arslan Şule Yüksel Tatar

Abstract

Some living species need vitamins required for matter modifications which are realized particularly through
biochemical reactions, while some need a few of them or do not need any of them. The living organisms obtain
those matters, which are essential for surviving, from their existing environments. Therefore, the quantity of
vitamins in those environments should be identified. In this sense, the quantity of vitamins in wastewater
treatment plants which are the environments of microorganisms also should be determined. In this study, the
levels of B1 (Thiamin), B2 (Riboflavin), B3 (Niacin), B6 (Pyridoxine), B11 (Folic Acid) and B12 (Cobalamin)
among vitamin B groups which can be dissolved in water were determined in water and treatment sludge of
Malatya and Gaziantep wastewater treatment plants (Turkey). The levels of B1, B2, B3, B6, B11 and B12 in the
samples obtained from Malatya and Gaziantep wastewater treatment plants were found out to be significantly
different. The results are statistically significant with respect to p < 0.05 and p < 0.01. Such differences emerged
depending on the characteristics of purified water and microbial characteristics. The determined vitamin levels
were found out to be satisfactory for the vitamin requirements of heterotrophic microorganisms in both
biological wastewater treatment and soil.

Keywords

Wastewater, Treatment, Vitamin B, Water, Sewage Sludge