Treatment of 2,4 dichlorophenol (DCP) in a sequential anaerobic (upflow anaerobic sludge blanket) aerobic (completely stirred tank) reactor system at increasing organic loading rates

Thermophilic degradation of phenolic compounds in lab scale hybrid up flow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors

“…UASB reactors have been used successfully for the treatment of wastewaters containing refractory organics by several researchers [11]. Recently, UASB reactor systems have been reported to be effective for the treatment of industrial wastewaters containing toxic phenolic compounds, such as benzoate (Li et al [12]), phenol (Duff et al [13] and Fang et al [14]), nitrophenols (Donlon et al [15], Karim and Gupta [16,17]) and chlorophenols (Shen et al [18] and Sponza and Ulukoy [19]). …”