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http://dx.doi.org/10.5572/KOSAE.2009.25.6.503

Removal Characteristics and Mass Balance Analysis of Mixed VOCs in Trickle Bed Air Biofilter Using Backwashing Operation  

Kim, Dae-Keun (Department of Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University of Technoology)
Sorial, George A. (Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Cincinnati)
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Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment / v.25, no.6, 2009 , pp. 503-511 More about this Journal
Abstract
VOC mixture was fed to a trickle bed air biofilter (TBAB) with step-change in influent mixture concentrations from 50 ppmv to 1,000 ppmv, corresponding to loadings of $5.7\;g/m^3/hr$ to $114.1\;g/m^3/hr$. VOC mixture was an equimolar ratio of two aromatic VOCs, i.e., toluene and styrene, and two oxygenated VOCs, i.e., methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) and methyl isobutyl ketone (MIBK). The TBAB system employed backwashing as biomass control. The experimental results showed that a critical loading rate for VOC mixture removal was determined to be about $60\;g/m^3/hr$, and critical loading rates for individual VOCs in the mixture were different. Specifically, toluene content in the mixture played a major role in the biofilter overall performance. As VOC mixture was fed beyond the critical loading rate, reacclimation of the biofilter to reach the 99% removal efficiency following backwashing was delayed, which was a critical factor in the biofilter performance. In the mass balance analysis, 63.8% of the carbon equivalent in VOCs removal was used for $CO_2$ production during the experimental runs. The 82.6% nitrogen utilized in the biofilter was contributed to microbial cell synthesis. The obtained results were compared against consistently high efficient performance of TBAB for VOC mixture by employing backwashing as biomass control.
Keywords
VOCs; Mixture; Biofilter; Trickle Bed Air Biofilter; Biodegradation;
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