Start up of an anaerobic inverse turbulent bed reactor fed with wine distillery wastewater using pre-colonised bioparticles.
Water Sci Technol
; 51(1): 153-8, 2005.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-15771111
The long start-up period of fluidized bed biofilm reactors is a serious obstacle for their wide installation in the anaerobic treatment of industrial wastewater. This paper presents the results of an anaerobic inverse turbulent bioreactor treating distillery wastewater during 117 days of operation at a laboratory scale. The pre-colonized bioparticles for this work were obtained from a similar reactor processing the same wastewater and which had a start-up period of 3 months. The system attained carbon removal efficiency rates between 70 and 92%, at an organic loading rate of 30.6 kg m(-3) d(-1) (chemical oxygen demand) with a hydraulic retention time of 11.1 h. The results obtained showed that the start-up period of this kind of reactors can be reduced by 3 using pre-colonized bioparticles.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Bacteria, Anaerobic
/
Wine
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Waste Disposal, Fluid
Language:
En
Journal:
Water Sci Technol
Journal subject:
SAUDE AMBIENTAL
/
TOXICOLOGIA
Year:
2005
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
España
Country of publication:
Reino Unido