MUMBAI, India, Feb. 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641007494 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Jan. 26, for 'method for degradation of synthetic dyes in textile effluent using a bacterial consortium.'
Inventor(s) include Sakthishabarish. K; and Dr. Kannabiran. K.
The application for the patent was published on Feb. 13, under issue no. 07/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention discloses a method for enhanced degradation and detoxification of high concentrations of synthetic textile dyes using a bacterial consortium of Stutzerimonas stutzeri VITKSS2, Brucella ciceri VITKSS3 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa VITKSS4 in a 1:1:1 ratio. Using an optimized minimal medium comprising fructose (1.059%), ammonium sulphate (1.083%), KH2PO4 (0.442%) and NaCl (0.958%) and an inoculum of 1.52% (v/v), the consortium operates under static microaerophilic conditions to decolorize and degrade dye mixtures up to 5,000 mg/L and tolerates extreme concentrations up to 1,00,000 mg/L. Experimental validation including UV-visible decolorization kinetics (Fig. 5, 500; Fig. 6, 601), GC-MS (Fig. 9, 900) showing phthalate reductions, SEM (Fig. 10, 1000) showing particle disintegration, and phytotoxicity assays (Fig. 11-13, 1100-1300) showing 82.39% reduction in toxicity confirm detoxification. The process reduces color, TDS, TSS, BOD and COD in treated effluents and provides a low-energy, scalable approach for textile wastewater reuse or safe discharge."
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