Journal
JOURNAL OF CO2 UTILIZATION
Volume 21, Issue -, Pages 353-359Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcou.2017.07.016
Keywords
Carbon dioxide; Centrate; Exhaust gas; Microalgae; Toluene; Tubular photobioreactor
Funding
- EU COST action-W2020 [ES1202-010715-062360]
- Stifelson Tandlakare Gustaf stipendium of Malardalen University
- CONACyT-Mexico [Reg: 237873]
- Regional Government of Castilla y Leon [UIC71]
- MINECO (Red Novedar)
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The continuous abatement of CO2 and toluene from the exhaust gas by an indigenous microalgal-bacterial consortium was investigated in a pilot tubular photobioreactor interconnected to an absorption column using diluted centrate in seawater as a free nutrient source. The removal efficiency of CO2 and toluene was maximised in the vertical absorption column by identifying an optimum liquid to gas (L/G) ratio of 15. The photobioreactor supported steady-state nitrogen and phosphorus removals of 91 +/- 2% and 95 +/- 4% using 15% diluted centrate at 14 and 7 d of hydraulic retention time (HRT), respectively. A decrease in the removal efficiencies of nitrogen (36 +/- 5%) and phosphorus (58 +/- 10%) was recorded when using 30% diluted centrate at 7 d of HRT. The volumetric biomass productivities obtained at an HRT of 7 d accounted for 42 +/- 11 and 80 +/- 3 mg TSS L-1 d(-1) using 15 and 30% centrate, respectively. Stable CO2 (76 +/- 7%) and toluene removals (89 +/- 5%) were achieved at an L/G ratio of 15 regardless of the HRT or centrate dilution. Hence, this study demonstrated the potential of algal-bacterial systems for the continuous removal of CO2 and volatile organic compounds from exhaust gas coupled with the simultaneous treatment of centrate.
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