Treatment of waste gas from the breather vent of a vertical fixed roof p-xylene storage tank by a trickle-bed air biofilter

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1028-1034

  Chang, Shenteng ^a   Lu, Chungsying ^a   Hsu, Shihchieh ^a   Lai, How Tsan ^b   Shang, Wen Lin ^b   Chuang, Yeong Song ^b   Cho, Chi Huang ^c   Chen, Sheng Han ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Bureau of Environmental Protection   (Taiwan)

^c Main Link Engineering Consultants Inc   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Activated carbon adsorber; Fixed roof storage tank; P Xylene; Standing storage loss; Trickle bed air biofilter

Indexed keywords

ADSORBERS; FIXED-ROOF STORAGE TANK; P-XYLENE; STORAGE LOSS; TRICKLE-BED AIR BIOFILTER;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; BIOFILTRATION; BIOLOGICAL FILTER BEDS; ROOFS; SUN; TANKS (CONTAINERS); VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WASTE TREATMENT; XYLENE;

BIOFILTERS;

ACTIVATED CARBON; HYDROCARBON; PARA XYLENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADSORPTION; BIOFILTRATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GAS; HYDROCARBON; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; WASTE; WASTE TREATMENT; XYLENE;

ARTICLE; BIOFILTER; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GAS WASTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR RADIATION; TANK; TRICKLE BED AIR BIOFILTER; WASTE GAS MANAGEMENT;

AIR; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; FILTRATION; GASES; HUMIDITY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; PILOT PROJECTS; PRESSURE; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WASTE PRODUCTS; WATER; XYLENES;

EID: 78650707894     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2010.09.106     Document Type: Article

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