Ethanol vapour from air was removed using a bioreactor (2.7 m(3)) packed with a novel engineered material consisting of a highly porous inorganic matrix coated with activated carbon. The system was operated over a period of two months varying the inlet ethanol between 90 and 2200 mg m(-3). Removal efficiencies ranging from 80 to 99.9% were obtained. A simplified kinetic model of the bioreactor was developed and used to estimate the maximum degradation rate and to predict thermal effects resulting from ethanol oxidation.
High-performance microbial removal of ethanol from contaminated air / F., Cioci; Lavecchia, Roberto; M. M., Ferranti. - In: BIOTECHNOLOGY TECHNIQUES. - ISSN 0951-208X. - 11:12(1997), pp. 893-898. [10.1023/a:1018462300301]
High-performance microbial removal of ethanol from contaminated air
LAVECCHIA, Roberto;
1997
Abstract
Ethanol vapour from air was removed using a bioreactor (2.7 m(3)) packed with a novel engineered material consisting of a highly porous inorganic matrix coated with activated carbon. The system was operated over a period of two months varying the inlet ethanol between 90 and 2200 mg m(-3). Removal efficiencies ranging from 80 to 99.9% were obtained. A simplified kinetic model of the bioreactor was developed and used to estimate the maximum degradation rate and to predict thermal effects resulting from ethanol oxidation.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.