Introduction: The biological denitrification process is an interesting cost-effective technique to remove nitrate from water supplies. Acetic acid can be used as a carbon source in this process, but its consumption rate is a critical issue and, in some cases, it is quite different from stoichiometric constants. The current study aimed to investigate the nitrate removal in an up-flow packed bed ...

The suitability of hemp fibres as green support material for immobilization of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans cells in ferrous iron bio-oxidation process was investigated. A series of experiments were carried out in shake flasks and bioreactor for both cell immobilization and iron bio-oxidation. In flask experiments, five successive batch colonization cycles resulted in 6-fold increase...

This study consists of a review on the removal efficiencies wide spectrum micropollutants (MPs) in biological treatment (mainly membrane bioreactor) coupled with activated carbon (AC) (AC added bioreactor or followed by an AC unit, acting as post treatment). It focuses how presence may promote MPs and effects dissolved organic matter (DOM) wastewater. Removal data collected are analysed versus ...

The inverse fluidized bed bioreactor was adapted for the axenic culture of heterotrophic microorganisms. Penicillin V synthesized by Penicillium chrysogenum ATCC 28089 was used as a model system for secondary metabolite production. The biomass growth rate was controlled by the rate of nutrient addition while an eroder in the inner draft tube limited the maximum biofilm thickness. When a lactose...

A gas-liquid-solid inverse  uidization airlift bioreactor was proposed by combining advantages of external-loop airlift reactors and inverse  uidized beds. This airlift bioreactor comprises a gas-liquid riser, a gas separator, a liquid-solid inverse  uidized downcomer and a bottom connector. The effects of the gas velocity and the particle loading on the gas holdup in the riser and the liqui...

The performance of a particulate-biofilm, expanded-bed process for nitrification of activated sludge final effluent (ASFE) is reported for a plant receiving mixed industrial and domestic wastewater. The support material for the particulate-biofilms was glassy coke, to which the nitrifying bacteria attached and formed a highly active biofilm. An average nitrification rate of 1.7+/-0.6 kg m(expan...

The multi-fixed-bed bioreactor “Multiferm” provides a downscaled system for the development of fixed-bed processes with immobilized microorganisms or cells. It consists of twelve single fixed-bed units that can be operated independently. Different bacterial strains, carriers used for immobilization, media or flow rates can be studied in one compact experimental set-up. Experiments can be run in...