The research was focused on the slurry-phase biodegradation of naphthalene in soil. Among ex-situ techniques, the slurry-phase technique offers the advantage to increase the availability of contaminants to bacteria. From soil samples collected on a contaminated site, the Pseudomonas putida M8 strain capable to degrade naphthalene was selected. Experiments were performed in a stirred and oxygena...

The research was focused on the slurry-phase biodegradation of naphthalene in soil. Among ex situ techniques, the slurry phase offers the advantage of increased availability of contaminants to bacteria. From naphthalene contaminated soil, a Pseudomonas putida M8 strain capable to degrade naphthalene was selected. Experiments were performed in a stirred and oxygenated reactor. In this study, the...

Effects of magnetic fields on improving mass transfer in flue gas desulfurization with a fluidized bed are investigated in the paper. In this research, the magnetically fluidized bed (MFB) is used as the reactor in which ferromagnetic particles are fluidized with simulated flue gas under the influence of an external magnetic field. Lime slurry is continuously sprayed into the reactor. As a cons...

In the presented work CaCO3 powders were produced by controlled fast precipitation through gaseous carbon dioxide absorption in calcium hydroxide slurry. This multiphase reaction was conducted in a modified prototypical rotating disk reactor (RDR). The concept is based on continuous formation of thin liquid films at a surface of rotating discs where the mass transfer proceeds in diffusion-conve...

Biodegradation kinetics of 4-nitrophenol (PNP) in aqueous solution by a gram negative soil bacterium, Ralstoniaeutropha was firstly studied in a small scale batch reactor. The degradation of PNP was evaluated at initial PNP concentrations ranging from 3 mg/L to 14 mg/L. The rate of PNP consumption by the bacterium culture was modeled using Monod and Contois kinetics in batch condition. PNP degr...

A parametric systems model of the ATW [Accelerator Transmutation of (Nuclear) Waste] has been used to examine key system tradeoffs and design drivers on the basis of uni t cos ts . This model has been appl ied primarily to the aqueous-slurry blanket concept for an ATW that genera tes net -e lec t r ic power f rom the fissioning of spent reactor fuel. An important goal of this s tudy is the deve...

Field measurements of ammonia (NH3), nitrous oxide (N2O), methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) were made from raw pig slurry storage, from different biological aerobic treatments and from stores holding the treated products. Biological treatments consisted of intermittent aeration by (i) submerged ejector aerator, (ii) surface aerator and (iii) fine-bubble diffuser. Emissions were measured fr...

One approach to reduce nutrient losses from livestock farms is to apply biological waste treatment systems such as biological nitrogen (N) removal or enhanced biological phosphorus (P) removal (EBPR) to reduce the nutrient content of land-applied waste. The EBPR process takes advantage of the ability of P-accumulating organisms (PAOs) to sequester excess P as polyphosphate granules in their cyt...