Operational aspects, pH transition and microbial shifts of a H2S desulfurizing biotrickling filter with random packing material

Chemosphere

Volumn 93, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2675-2682

  Montebello, Andrea M ^a   Bezerra, Tercia ^a   Rovira, Roger ^a   Rago, Laura ^a   Lafuente, Javier ^a   Gamisans, Xavier ^b   Campoy, Susana ^a   Baeza, Mireia ^a   Gabriel, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biotrickling filter; Neutral to acid pH transition; Pall rings; Pyrosequencing

Indexed keywords

BIOGAS; DESULFURIZATION; PACKING; SULFUR;

BIO-TRICKLING FILTERS; ELIMINATION CAPACITY; NEUTRAL-TO-ACID PH TRANSITION; OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS; PALL RINGS; PYROSEQUENCING; STEADY-STATE OPERATION; SULFUR OXIDIZING BACTERIA;

BIOFILTERS;

BIOGAS; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; RNA 16S;

ACCUMULATION; AERATION; BIOGAS; FILTER; PACKING; PH; SPECIALIZATION; SULFUR;

AERATION; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOFILTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESULFURIZATION; FILTRATION; FLAVOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN SUPPLY; PACKAGING MATERIAL; PALL RING; PH; PYROSEQUENCING; REACTOR; REDUCTION; STEADY STATE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BIOTRICKLING FILTER; H(2)S BIOGAS DESULFURIZATION; NEUTRAL-TO-ACID PH TRANSITION; PALL RINGS; PYROSEQUENCING;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOFUELS; BIOREACTORS; FILTRATION; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84887403217     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2013.08.052     Document Type: Article

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