Waste waters and gases containing sulfur compounds are generated by many industries and represent an environmental problem when the effluents are discharged without any previous treatment. Their emission to the environment is related to the acid rain, corrosion, bad odor and health problems due to the toxicity of such contaminants....
This work aims to contribute to the study of the elimination of 2-chlorophenol (2CP) under anaerobic methanogenic conditions, as well as the understanding of the interactions between physiological responses in a methanogenic consortium and the structure of the microbial community present. The work was divided into three parts. The first...