Removal of acrylonitrile vapor from waste gases by a trickle-bed air biofilter

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 35-41

  Lu, Chungsying ^a   Lin, Min Ray ^b   Lin, Jingchung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b National Taichung Teachers College   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

AN removal; Empty bed retention time; Influent concentration; Trickle bed air biofilter

Indexed keywords

AIR FILTERS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; VAPORS;

ACRYLONITRILE; TRICKLE-BED AIR BIOFILTERS (TBAB);

INDUSTRIAL WASTE TREATMENT;

ACRYLONITRILE; CARBON;

FILTRATION; SEPARATION; TRICKLE BED REACTOR;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIOFILTER; EFFLUENT; GAS; GAS FLOW; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; NUTRIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VAPOR; WASTE;

EID: 0034009605     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-8524(00)00029-8     Document Type: Article

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