Response of a solid-liquid two-phase partitioning bioreactor to transient BTEX loadings

Chemosphere

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1453-1460

  Littlejohns, Jennifer V ^a   Daugulis, Andrew J ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bacterial consortium; Biodegradation; TPPB; Transient loading; VOCs

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS PHASES; BACTERIAL CONSORTIUM; BACTERIAL CONSORTIUMS; BUFFERING EFFECTS; ELIMINATION CAPACITIES; GREAT-ER; PHASE PARTITIONING; POLYMER BEADS; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; SILICONE RUBBERS; SOLID POLYMERS; STEP CHANGES; TOXIC SUBSTRATES; TPPB; TRANSIENT LOADING; TRANSIENT LOADINGS; TRANSIENT OPERATIONS; VOCS; WASTE STREAMS; WORKING VOLUMES;

ABS RESINS; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; BACTERIOLOGY; BENZENE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREACTORS; DEGRADATION; ETHYLBENZENE; FLOW OF FLUIDS; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PELLETIZING; POLYMERS; REMOVAL; SILICONES; TOLUENE; TWO PHASE FLOW; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; XYLENE;

LOADING;

BENZENE; ETHYLBENZENE; ORTHO XYLENE; SILASTIC; TOLUENE;

BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREACTOR; BTEX; PARTITIONING; POLYMER; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; DESORPTION; PHASE PARTITIONING; STEADY STATE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA; BENZENE; BENZENE DERIVATIVES; BIOREACTORS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; PHASE TRANSITION; TOLUENE; WASTE MANAGEMENT; XYLENES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 54349123781     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2008.07.066     Document Type: Article

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