A model for treating isopropyl alcohol and acetone mixtures in a trickle-bed air biofilter

Process Biochemistry

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1849-1858

  Lu, Chungsying ^a   Chang, Kwotsair ^a   Hsu, Shihchieh ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acetone; Biofiltration; Isopropyl alcohol; Modeling; Performance equation; Sensitivity analysis; Trickle bed air biofilter

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOFILMS; BIOFILTERS; EFFLUENTS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EMPTY BED RESIDENCE TIME (EBRT); MICROBIAL YIELD;

ACETONE;

EID: 3042547115     PISSN: 00329592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2003.09.019     Document Type: Article

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