Effect of packing material on organic matter removal efficiency in an anaerobic-aerobic baffled bioreactor

Autor: Jacobo Tabla-Hernandez, Edgar López-Galván
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Environmental technology. 39(8)
ISSN: 1479-487X
Popis: The aim of the present work was to study the effect of packing material on the organic matter removal efficiency (OMRE) in an anaerobic–aerobic baffled bioreactor (AAB). For this purpose, two different experiments were conducted with two types of packing material: activated carbon (AC) particles and polyurethane foam (PF). The system consisted of two treatments; the first one was anaerobic, where hydrolysis, acetogenesis and methanogenesis took place. In anaerobic chambers, there were no packing materials and the operating conditions were the same in both experiments. The second treatment was aerobic and both materials were placed at different times as a bedding. The parameters measured were chemical oxygen demand (COD), dissolved chemical oxygen demand (CODd), total organic carbon (TOC), nitrate concentration (NO3–), ammonium concentration (NH4+), electric conductivity (σ), alkalinity (Alky) and hydrogen potential (pH). Paired t-Student test showed that there was no significant difference in the ...
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