Bio-Scrubber Performance Equipped with Airlift Parallel Bioreactors (APB’s) for BTX Biodegradation by Wastewater Sludge

Nayyeri, Hamed; Mazaheri, Hossein; Hassani Joshaghani, Ali; Ghanavati, Hossein

doi:10.30492/ijcce.2021.527021.4635

Bio-Scrubber Performance Equipped with Airlift Parallel Bioreactors (APB’s) for BTX Biodegradation by Wastewater Sludge

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

¹ Department of Chemical Engineering, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, I.R. IRAN

² Microbial Biotechnology Department, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran (ABRII), Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Organization (AREEO), Karaj, I.R. IRAN

10.30492/ijcce.2021.527021.4635

Abstract

A new approach in this work was the biodegradation of Benzene, Toluene, and Xylene (BTX) using Airlift Parallel Bioreactors (APB’s) connected to the Plexiglas Bio-Scrubber (PBS) Modulated with Polyurethane Foam (MPF) as modified sort in the use of mineral pumice as a porous filler Lava rock media. The aeration bioreactors were set up with a microbial consortium of refinery Sludge Effluent Sewer (SES) treatment and nutrient solution. The performance of PBS for BTX removing
by APB’s filled with Activated Sludge Effluent Sewer (ASES) in the range of inlet BTX concentrations from 180.7 to 881.8 ppmv in different air pollutions flow rates was tried for two rates: 2.5 & 3.5 L/minat 30 days Mean Residence Time Distribution (MRTD) for each treatment. The results showed that at inlet pollutant concentrations of [B] = 180.7 ppmv, [T] = 327.4 ppmv & [X] = 297.5 ppmv, the removal efficiency in flow rate 2.5 lit/minwas 90.7, 88, and 83.6(%) for benzene, toluene, and xylene, respectively. The amount of removal in flow rate 2.5 lit/minwas better than the removal efficiency of 3.5 lit/mindue to lower pollution concentration.

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