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http://dx.doi.org/10.9713/kcer.2013.51.5.568

Semi-pilot Scaled Biofilter Treatment of Malodorous Waste Air Containing Hydrogen Sulfide and Ammonia: 1. Performance of Biofilter Packed with Media with Immobilized Thiobacillus sp. IW and Return-sludge  

Lee, Eun Ju (Department of Chemical Engineering, Research Institute for Industrial and Environmental Waste Air Treament, Daegu University)
Park, Hyeri (Department of Chemical Engineering, Research Institute for Industrial and Environmental Waste Air Treament, Daegu University)
Lim, Kwang-Hee (Department of Chemical Engineering, Research Institute for Industrial and Environmental Waste Air Treament, Daegu University)
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Korean Chemical Engineering Research / v.51, no.5, 2013 , pp. 568-574 More about this Journal
Abstract
A semi-pilot biofilter packed with media with immobilized Thiobacillus sp. IW and return sludge, was operated under various operating conditions in order to treat malodorous waste air containing both hydrogen sulfide and ammonia which are major air pollutants emitted from composting factories and many publicly owned treatment works (POTW). At the incipient and middle stages of a semi-pilot biofilter operation, the hydrogen sulfide-removal efficiency behaves regardless of an inlet-load of ammonia. However, the ammonia-removal efficiency decreased as an inlet-load of hydrogen sulfide increased. Nevertheless, at the final stage of the semi-pilot biofilter operation, the ammonia-removal efficiency was not affected by the increase of hydrogen sulfide-inlet load. It is attributed to that a serious acidification of semi-pilot biofilter-media did not occur due to continuous injection of buffer solution at the final stage of the semi-pilot biofilter operation. When both hydrogen sulfide and ammonia contained in malodorous waste air were treated simultaneously by semi-pilot biofilter, the maximum elimination capacities of hydrogen sulfide and ammonia turned out to be ca. 58 and $30g/m^3/h$, respectively. These maximum elimination capacities were estimated to be ca. 39 and 46% less than those for lab-scaled biofilter-separate elimination of hydrogen sulfide and ammonia, respectively. Thus, for the simultaneous biofilter-treatment of hydrogen sulfide and ammonia, the maximum elimination capacity of ammonia decreased by 7% more than that of hydrogen sulfide.
Keywords
Semi-pilot Biofilter; Malodorous Waste-air; Hydrogen Sulfide; Ammonia;
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