Biofiltration and kinetic aspects of a biotrickling filter for the removal of paint solvent mixture laden air stream

Co-treatment of single, binary and ternary mixture gas of ethanethiol, dimethyl disulfide and thioanisole in a biotrickling filter seeded with Lysinibacillus sphaericus RG-1

“…The pressure drop ( p) across the biotrickling filter is a key indicator of biotrickling filter performance, because it not only relates to the development and accumulation of biomass in the biotrickling filter, but also affects the energy consumption of the blower which contributes most of the operation costs [42,43]. In this work, therefore, long-term performance of the biotrickling filter was investigated by determining both pressure drop at fixed EBRT 110 s and the amount of biofilm (see Fig.…”

Performance of a Pilot-Scale Biotrickling Filter in Controlling the Volatile Organic Compound Emissions in a Furniture Manufacturing Facility

“…13 In addition, evidence of removal of VOCs from paint applications using biofilters and BTFs is relatively limited in the literature, 14 especially for pilot/full-scale units. In general, the available data [15][16][17][18][19][20] show suitable performance for the removal of VOC emissions.…”

Biofiltration of a styrene/acetone vapor mixture in two reactor types under conditions of styrene overloading

“…A number of studies have been conducted on this application, using both common bioreactor types, i.e., biofilters (BFs) with low water usage (Li and Moe 2005) and their opposite, trickle-bed bioreactors (TBRs), which may be called in situ bioscrubbers . These studies laid a sound foundation for designing the bioreactors featuring sufficiently high residence times (low air flow rates) (Bastos et al 2003;Chang and Lu 2003;Atoche and Moe 2004;Mathur and Majumder 2008) and using appropriate mineral feeds and packing materials for various substrates in different reactors (Song et al 2003;Li and Moe 2005). However, two significant barriers to success exist for a wide use of biofiltration for the treatment paint booth off-gases.…”