Effect of a Ternary Mixture of Volatile Organic Compounds on Degradation of TCE in Biotrickling Filter Systems
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- 作者：Dhawal Chheda ; George A. Sorial
- 刊名：Water, Air, and Soil Pollution
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：July 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：227
- 期：7
- 全文大小：755 KB
- 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
- 刊物主题：Environment
Environment
Atmospheric Protection, Air Quality Control and Air Pollution
Waste Water Technology, Water Pollution Control, Water Management and Aquatic Pollution
Terrestrial Pollution
Hydrogeology - 出版者：Springer Netherlands
- ISSN：1573-2932
- 卷排序：227
文摘
The primary goal of this research was to evaluate the effect of a ternary mixture of toluene, methanol, and trichloroethylene (TCE) on the elimination of TCE in a biotrickling filter. Two biotrickling filters—Biofilter I and Biofilter II—were run in parallel, each with a different toluene/methanol/TCE loading ratio of 3:2.7:1 and 1.9:0.9:1, respectively. Both systems were seeded with fungal strains grown on diatomaceous earth media and were run at pH 4 maintained by formate buffer. To control excess biomass growth, the systems were “starved” for 2 days a week and run continuously for the rest of the week. TCE loading rates for each system ranged from 1.61 to 6.44 g/m3 h−1 across three phases while toluene and methanol were loaded at rates corresponding to the influent composition ratios. More than 95 % methanol was removed from the gaseous streams throughout, while TCE removal was a function of the influent organic ratio and the corresponding concentrations. At and above loading rates of 3.22 g/m3 h−1, elimination capacities obtained from Biofilter II surpassed those from Biofilter I due to a lower feed of bio-accessible carbon (toluene and methanol) offering reduced competition to TCE removal. While over 90 % toluene was removed from both systems, its elimination capacities dropped as the phases progressed due to competition and TCE cytotoxicity. Most carbon was converted to CO2 and biomass, and no TCE oxidation by-products were detected.KeywordsBiodegradationBiotrickling filterFungiMethanolTolueneTrichloroethylene