Continuous decolourization of a sugar refinery wastewater in a modified rotating biological contactor with Phanerochaete chrysosporium immobilized on polyurethane foam disks

Process Biochemistry

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 535-540

  Guimaraes C ^a,b   Porto, P ^a   Oliveira, R ^b   Mota, M ^b  

^a SA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Decolourization; Melanoidin; Phanerochaete chrysosporium; Rotating biological contactor; Sugar refinery effluent

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPOSITION; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; FUNGI; OPTIMIZATION; POLYURETHANES; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

DECOLORIZATION; ROTATING BIOLOGICAL CONTACTORS (RBC); SCOURING WEBS (SW);

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CHRYSOSPORIUM; FUNGI; PHANEROCHAETE; PHANEROCHAETE CHRYSOSPORIUM;

EID: 7444242747     PISSN: 00329592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2003.11.020     Document Type: Article

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