| Issue |
E3S Web Conf.
Volume 19, 2017
International Conference Energy, Environment and Material Systems (EEMS 2017)
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| Article Number | 02001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Environment | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20171902001 | |
| Published online | 23 October 2017 | |
Air purification from a mixture VOCs in the pilot-scale trickle-bed bioreactor (TBB)
1 Institute of Chemical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Bałtycka 5, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
2 Department of Process Engineering, University of Opole, ul. Dmowskiego 7-9, 45-365 Opole, Poland
⁎ Corresponding author: zecjan@uni.opole.pl
The efficiency of the air bio-purification from the mixture of two volatile organic compounds (styrene and p-xylene) was studied. The process was carried out in a pilot-scale trickle-bed bioreactor installation designed to purify ∼200 m3h-1 of the polluted air. The bioreactor operated at concurrent flow of gas and liquid (mineral salt solution) through packing (polypropylene Ralu rings) covered with a thin layer of microorganisms (bacterial consortium of Pseudomonas sp. E-022150 and Pseudomonas putida mt-2). The experiments, carried out for various values of a reactor load with pollutant, confirmed the great efficiency of the investigated process. At the tested bed load with pollution (inlet specific pollutant load was changed within the range of 41 – 84 gm-3 h -1), styrene conversion degree changed within the range of 80-87% and p-xylene conversion degree within the range of 42-48%.
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