Hydrogen sulfide removal performance of a bio-trickling filter employing Thiobacillus thiparus immobilized on polyurethane foam under various starvation regimes

Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1278-1283

  Namini, M T ^a   Abdehagh, Niloufar ^a   Heydarian, Seyed Mohammad ^b   Bonakdarpour, Babak ^a   Kooki, Davood Zare Bonad ^b  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b IRANIAN RESEARCH ORGANIZATION FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IROST   (Iran)

Author keywords

Biotrickling filter; Hydrogen sulfide; Starvation polyurethane foam; Thiobacillus thioparus

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; BIOACTIVITY; BIOFILTERS; CORROSION; DESULFURIZATION; EFFICIENCY; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; POLYURETHANES; RECOVERY; RIGID FOAMED PLASTICS; SULFUR DETERMINATION;

BIO-TRICKLING FILTERS; CONTAMINANT LOADINGS; NORMAL OPERATING CONDITIONS; NORMAL OPERATIONS; POLYURETHANE FOAM; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; SPECIFIC OXYGEN UPTAKE RATE; THIOBACILLUS THIOPARUS;

LOADING;

HYDROGEN SULFIDE; POLYURETHAN FOAM;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BIOTRICKLING FILTER; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FILTER; IMMOBILIZED CELL; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PERFORMANCE; STARVATION; THIOBACILLUS; THIOBACILLUS THIPARUS;

THIOBACILLUS; THIOBACILLUS THIOPARUS;

EID: 84879943741     PISSN: 12268372     EISSN: 19763816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12257-012-0035-0     Document Type: Article

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