PHENOL DETERMINATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL INTEREST SAMPLES BY AN AMPEROMETRIC BIOSENSOR BASED ON LYOPHILIZED FUNGI TISSUE (Agaricus bisporus)

  • , Ana Carina Cruz de Mello
  • , Lívia Maria da Costa Silva
  • , Andrea Medeiros Salgado
Publication date
April 2017
Publisher
Unipinhal

Abstract

A biosensor based on lyophilized fungi tissue (Agaricus bisporus) was used for the amperometric determination of phenol in samples of environmental interest. This fungi tissue contained the tyrosinase enzyme that is able to catalyze two sequential oxidation reactions with phenolic substrates. Both reactions involve molecular oxygen, therefore the Clark-type oxygen electrode commercial was selected as transducer. Two samples of environmental interest were analyzed by the biosensor: a sample of domestic wastewater and a sample of feed water of a membrane bioreactor (MBR) tank, provided by General Electric Company. The results of the biosensor were compared with the results of the Standard Method for phenol determination, colorimetric method. ...

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