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.
1997
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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]
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