Treatment of organic waste gas in a paint plant by combined technique of biotrickling filtration with photocatalytic oxidation

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 200-202, Issue , 2012, Pages 645-653

  He, Zhigui ^a,c   Li, Jianjun ^b   Chen, Jiangyao ^a,c   Chen, Ziping ^b   Li, Guiying ^a   Sun, Guoping ^b   An, Taicheng ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b GUANGDONG INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Biotrickling filtration; Elimination capacity; Photocatalytic oxidation; Removal efficiency; VOCs

Indexed keywords

BIOTRICKLING; ELIMINATION CAPACITY; PHOTOCATALYTIC OXIDATIONS; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; VOCS;

BIOFILTERS; ETHYLBENZENE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; OXIDATION; REMOVAL; TOLUENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; XYLENE;

WASTES;

EID: 84865566043     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2012.06.117     Document Type: Article

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