BTEX-Contaminated Gas Treatment in a Shallow, Sparged, Suspended-Growth Bioreactor |
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Authors: | Angela R Bielefeldt H David Stensel |
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Institution: |
a Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
b Department of Civil Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
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Abstract: | Treatment of a gas contaminated with a mixture of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and o-xylene (BTEX) compounds in a 40-cm-deep laboratory-scale bioreactor containing suspended biomass was investigated. Gas treatment efficiency was not significantly impacted by different BTEX mixtures, and approximately 99% removal was achieved for volumetric loadings of 11 to 18 mg-BTEX/L-reactor volume/hr (specific biomass loadings of 0.27 to 0.83 g-BTEX/g-VSS/d; inlet concentrations of total BTEX of 2.3 to 4.3 mg/L) and operational solids retention times (SRTs) of 1.7, 2.7, and 9.2 days. Maximum specific biodegradation rates of the reactor biomass increased as the reactor SRTs decreased. Under specific loadings greater than 1 g-BTEX/g-VSS/d the gas treatment became biokinetically limited, such that BTEX and unidentified BTEX metabolites accumulated in the bioreactor liquid over time. BTEX gas-liquid mass transfer was sufficient in the 40-cm-deep sparged liquid reactor to provide high BTEX treatment efficiency. |
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Keywords: | gas treatment BTEX benzene toluene sparged reactor suspended-growth reactor |
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