Degradation of Waste Gas Containing Toluene in an Airlift Bioreactor

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2271-2280

  Lo, Cheng Shing ^a   Hwang, Shyh Jye ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; DEGRADATION; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROORGANISMS; REACTION KINETICS; TOLUENE;

INTERNAL LOOP AIRLIFT BIOREACTORS; MICROBIAL KINETICS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

OXYGEN; TOLUENE;

BIOREACTOR; DEGRADATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; TOLUENE; WASTE GAS;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIOREACTOR; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DEGRADATION; DISPERSION; FLOW RATE; GAS FLOW; GAS WASTE; HYDRODYNAMICS; KINETICS; LIQUID; MASS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROORGANISM; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION; REACTOR; VELOCITY; VOLUMETRY;

AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTANTS; BACTERIA; BIOREACTORS; GASES; KINETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OXYGEN; TOLUENE;

EID: 1842728475     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es030455z     Document Type: Article

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