Application of Statistical Tool for the Optimization of Biofiltration of Toluene Using Corn Stacks as Packing Material

Start-up, performance and optimization of a compost biofilter treating gas-phase mixture of benzene and toluene

“…However, while treating mixtures, interaction effects between pollutants can play an important role in both mass transfer and biodegradation steps of the biofiltration process leading to somewhat reduced removal efficiencies of the target pollutants (Gallastegui et al, 2013;McNevin and Barford, 2000). With the advent of various statistical and computational modeling procedures, biofilters can be optimized for their performances when mixture of VOCs is present in the contaminated air stream (Saravanan et al, 2013). Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) based techniques have been also been successfully tested to predict complex interactions between benzene concentration profile along the bed height and biological reactions in a biofilter (Rahul et al, 2012).…”

Biodegradation of Benzene, Ethylbenzene, and Xylene Mixture in a Date Palm Tree Bark-based Upflow Biofilter

“…Recent studies have reported that bacterial biomass is much more effective than fungal biomass at degrading VOCs (Estrada et al 2013). Biofiltration experiments on pure benzene and toluene in a compost biofilter (Rene et al 2005;Rene et al 2009;Saravanan et al 2013), xylene in a press mud-based biofilter (Saravanan and Rajamohan 2009), ethylbenzene in nutshell biofilter (Volckaert et al 2013), and in a date palm tree bark-based biofilter (Rajamohan et al 2015b) have been successfully conducted. However, few studies on the treatment of VOC mixtures have been conducted.…”