Enhanced removal of hydrophobic volatile organic compounds in biofilters and biotrickling filters: A review on the use of surfactants and the addition of hydrophilic …

PAL Pineda, K Demeestere, M Toledo… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
The use of biological reactors to remove volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from waste gas
streams has proven to be a cost-effective and sustainable technique. However, hydrophobic …

Bioremediation of dyes: a brief review of bioreactor performance

H Tiwari, RK Sonwani, RS Singh - Environmental Technology …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
It has long been known that the textile industry generates a massive amount of synthetic
waste across the globe. Dye-containing wastewater is carcinogenic, mutagenic, recalcitrant …

Effect of inoculum type, packing material and operational conditions on the biofiltration of a mixture of hydrophobic volatile organic compounds in air

PAL Pineda, K Demeestere, JJ González-Cortés… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The emission of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) into the atmosphere causes negative
environmental and health effects. Biofiltration is known to be an efficient and cost-effective …

Review of biotreatment techniques for volatile sulfur compounds with an emphasis on dimethyl sulfide

BS Giri, KH Kim, RA Pandey, J Cho, H Song… - Process Biochemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
Emissions of volatile sulfur compounds (VSCs) including hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S),
methanethiol (MT), dimethylsulfide (DMS), and dimethyldisulfide (DMDS), referred to …

Oxygen mass transfer and post-denitrification in a modified rotating drum biological contactor

N Li, W Zeng, Y Yang, B Wang, Z Li, Y Peng - Biochemical Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
A lab-scale rotating drum biological contactor (RDBC) was implemented and accessed
concerning abiotic oxygen transfer rate and treatment capacity for domestic sewage. The …

Benzene control from waste gas streams with a sponge-medium based rotating biological contactor

SK Padhi, S Gokhale - International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation, 2016 - Elsevier
Rotating biological contactors (RBCs) are low-cost, efficient and an eco-friendly volatile
organics control technique. In this study, a state-of-art disk-based RBC has been modified to …

Decolorization of reactive orange 16 in rotating drum biological contactor

J Šíma, J Pocedič, P Hasal - Journal of Environmental Chemical …, 2016 - Elsevier
A laboratory scale Rotating Drum Biological Contactor (RDBC; drum length× diameter: 255×
130 mm) filled by randomly arranged particulate carriers with mycelium of the white rot …

Treatment of low strength wastewater using compact submerged aerobic fixed film (SAFF) reactor filled with high specific surface area synthetic media

R Gurjar, AD Shende, GR Pophali - Water Science and Technology, 2019 - iwaponline.com
Studies on laboratory-scale submerged aerobic fixed film reactor (SAFF) packed with
synthetic media having specific surface area of 165 m2/m3 with a void volume of 89% were …

Investigating the use of aerobic granular sludge for removal of nitrogenous compounds for wastewater treatment in a recirculating aquaculture system

O Eldaghar - 2020 - aaltodoc.aalto.fi
Recirculating aquaculute system (RAS) is growing fast and becoming more attractive from
sustainability perspective. The main goal in RAS is to use less water, achieve better waste …

Nitrifying Moving Bed Biofilm Reactors at Low Temperatures and Cold Shock Conditions: A Kinetic, Biofilm and Microbiome Study

W Ahmed - 2020 - ruor.uottawa.ca
The nitrification process, the biologically mediated process of ammonia treatment in water
resources recovery facilities (WRRF), remains the most common treatment process to …