| Title: | Development of a novel fungal fluidized-bed reactor for gaseous ethanol removal |
| Author(s): | Lu L; Dong D; Baig ZT; Yeung M; Xi J; |
| Address: | "Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control State Key Joint Laboratory, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China. Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control State Key Joint Laboratory, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China; Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, 518055, PR China. Electronic address: xijinying@tsinghua.edu.cn" |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.125529 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1879-1298 (Electronic) 0045-6535 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Fluidized bed bioreactors can overcome the limitations of packed bed bioreactors such as clogging, which has been observed in the industrial application for decades. The key to establish a gaseous fluidized bed bioreactor for treatment of volatile organic compounds is to achieve microbial growth on a light packing material. In this study, Two fungal species and two bacterial species were isolated to build a fungal fluidized-bed reactor (FFBR). A light packing material with wheat bran coated on expended polystyrene was used. The FFBR was operated for 65 days for gaseous ethanol removal and obtained elimination capacities of 500-1800 g?O+m(-3)?O+h(-1) and removal efficiencies of 20-50%. The pressure drops was well controlled with values around 400 Pa?O+m(-1). Stress tolerant genera including Aureobasidium, Stenotrophomonas and Brevundimonas were dominant. Meyerozyma, whose species were present in an initial inoculated isolate, was detected among the dominant species with 28.70% relative abundance; they were reported to degrade complicated compounds under similarly stressful environments" |
| Keywords: | Bioreactors/*microbiology Ethanol/*metabolism Fungi Gases Fluidized bed bioreactor Gaseous VOC purification; |
| Notes: | "MedlineLu, Lichao Dong, Dong Baig, Zenab Tariq Yeung, Marvin Xi, Jinying eng England 2020/02/14 Chemosphere. 2020 Apr; 244:125529. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.125529. Epub 2019 Dec 3" |
