Table 1.

Examples of bioaugmentation of industrial wastewaters for the remediation of important organic compounds.

Pollutant		Set Up	Medium for Bioaugmentation	Bioaugmented Bacteria	Ref.
3-Chloroaniline		Semi-continuous activated sludge (SCAS) (1 L)	Synthetic influent consisting of skim milk powder	Comamonas testosteroni	[19]
4-Fluoroaniline		Batch reactor (BR) (250 mL)	Inorganic salt medium	Acinetobacter sp.	[20]
2,4-Dichlorophenol (2,4-DCP)		Laboratory-scale continuous flow complete-mixed reactors (CFSTRs) (16 L)	Synthetic wastewater (SW)	Consortium of bacteria	[21]
2,4,6-Trichloro-phenol		fluidized bed biofilm reactor (FBBR) and expanded granular sludge bed (EGSB)	Industrial wastewater (IW)	Desulfitobacterium sp.	[22]
Quinoline		Sequential Batch reactor (SBR) (250 mL)	Petroleum refinery wastewater	Bacillus sp.	[27]
Quinoline		SBR (2–7 L)	Coke plant wastewater	Burkholderia pickettii	[28]
Pyridine and quinoline		BR (100 mL)	Inorganic medium and wastewater	Paracoccus sp. and Pseudomonas sp.	[29]
Quinoline and Pyridine		BR (250 mL) with modified zeolite	Coke wastewater	Paracoccus sp. and Pseudomonas sp.	[30]
Quinoline and Pyridine		SBR	Coke wastewater	Consortium of Paracoccus sp. BW001, Shinella Zoogloeoids BC026, Pseudomonas sp. BC001 and BW003,	[31]
Pyridine		SBR	Industrial wastewater	Rhizobium sp.	[33]
Pyridine		2 Membrane Bioreactors (MBR, 25 L each)	Pharmaceutical Wastewater	Paracoccus denitrificans
Acid Orange 7 dye		Membrane-aerated biofilm reactor (MABR) (2 L)	SW	Shewanella sp. XB	[37]
Bromoamine		MBR 10 L	SW	Sphingomonas xenophaga	[40]
Bromoamine		Combined process of microelectrolysis and biological aerated filter 1–3 L	Wastewater	Sphingomonas sp.	[39]
Bromoamine		BR (250 mL)	Inorganic medium	Sphingomonas xenophaga	[40]
Cyanide		Full scale Cokes wastewater treatment facility (fluidized bed type process) > 3 × 105 L	Cokes wastewater	Cryptococcus humicolus, and Unidentified cyanide-degrading microorganisms	[43]
Nicotine		3 reactors of cylindrical shape Height: Bore size of 10:1 (2 L)	Synthetic tobacco wastewater	Acinetobacter sp.	[49]
Nicotine		SBR (2 L)	Tobacco wastewater diluted in tap water (7%) (g/mL)	Pseudomonas sp.	[50]
Diethylene glycol butyl ether		SBR (2 L) Full scale Plug flow aerated tank (60,000 L)	Wastewater from silicon plate manufacture plant	Serratia sp.	[52]
Lignin (highly complex polymer of phenol)		2 L BR	Industrial wastewater	Comamonas and Pandoraea (bacteria), and Aspergillus (fungus)	[25]
Phenol (PH) and naphthalene (NAP) along with carbazole (CA), dibenzofuran (DBF), and dibenzothiophene		BR (column of 10 × 50 cm)	Coking wastewater from a treatment plant	Immobilized phenol-utilizing Arthrobacter sp.	[55]
Naphthalene		MBR (8 L)	Coal gasification wastewater.	Streptomyces sp.	[53]
Mixture of phenol, pyridine, quinoline, naphthalene and carbazole		A sequential system of anaerobic reactor(4.9 L), anoxic reactor, A2 (4.5 L), and an oxic MBR (9 L). MBR (9.0 L)	Coking wastewater	Consortium of 6 bacteria containing Paracoccus Denitrificans and 5 strains of Pseudomonas sp.	[54]
Phenol		Biological contact oxidation reactor (BCOR)	Coal gasification wastewater	Mixture of phenol-degrading bacteria	[56]