Treatment of mixtures of toluene andn-propanol vapours in a compost–woodchip-based biofilter
| Autor: | Sharvari Deshmukh, Atul Narayanrao Vaidya, R.A. Pandey, Sandeep N. Mudliar, Rashmi M. Dixit, Abhijit Gadhe, Marc A. Deshusses, G. S. Kannade, Satish K. Lokhande |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
Environmental pollution
1-Propanol engineering.material Dynamic modelling chemistry.chemical_compound Waste Management Air Pollution medicine Environmental Chemistry Computer Simulation Volatile organic compound Waste Management and Disposal Water Science and Technology N-Propanol chemistry.chemical_classification Air Pollutants Volatile Organic Compounds Chromatography Compost General Medicine medicine.disease Toluene Models Chemical chemistry Biofilter engineering Filtration Vapours Nuclear chemistry |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Technology. 33:751-760 |
| ISSN: | 1479-487X 0959-3330 |
| Popis: | The present work describes the biofiltration of mixture of n-propanol (as a model hydrophilic volatile organic compound (VOC)) and toluene (as a model hydrophobic VOC) in a biofilter packed with a compost-woodchip mixture. Initially, the biofilter was fed with toluene vapours at loadings up to 175 g m(-3) h(-1) and removal efficiencies of 70%-99% were observed. The biofilter performance when removing mixtures of toluene and n-propanol reached elimination capacities of up to 67g(toluene) m(-3) h(-1) and 85 g(n-propanol) m(-3) h(-1) with removal efficiencies of 70%-100% for toluene and essentially 100% for n-propanol. The presence of high n-propanol loading negatively affected the toluene removal; however, n-propanol removal was not affected by the presence of toluene and was effectively removed in the biofilter despite high toluene loadings. A model for toluene and n-propanol biofiltration could predict the cross-inhibition effect of n-propanol on toluene removal. |
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