Abstract:
Industrial system involves physical and
chemical treatment as well as biological processes.
Therefore, waste treatment systems such as the
industrial effluents depend on the activities of
communities of living organism. In this study, an
attempt was made on the identification of the
bacterial population involved in different industrial
effluents. A total of thirty bacterial strains were
isolated from glass, textile and pharmaceutical
effluent samples on L.B. agar plates. A few, however,
were re-cultured on other recommended media for
verification of diagnostic characteristics. Maximum
numbers of bacterial species were isolated from
textile effluent. The results showed that a gramnegative
bacillus with a yellow pigment was
considered as a major group of the population. These
are also being used in different waste water and metal
treatment plants all over the world.
