Treatment of methyl tert-butyl ether vapors in biotrickling filters. 1. Reactor startup, steady-state performance, and culture characteristics

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 33, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 2980-2986

  Fortin, Nathalie Y ^a   Deshusses, Marc A ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; BIOMASS; DEGRADATION; ETHERS; GASOLINE; MASS TRANSFER; TRICKLING FILTRATION; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL;

BIOTRICKLING FILTERS; METHYL TERT-BUTYL ETHER;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

TERT BUTYL METHYL ETHER;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMASS; EXHAUST GAS; FILTRATION; SMOG; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0033199398     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es981337s     Document Type: Article

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