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ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY
Volume 24, Issue 11, Pages 1431-1443Publisher
SELPER LTD, PUBLICATIONS DIV
DOI: 10.1080/09593330309385687
Keywords
anaerobic process; wastewater treatment; granular floating carrier; inverse fluidization technology; phospholipid analysis
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This paper describes the application of the inverse fluidization technology to the anaerobic digestion of dairy wastewater. Two reactors were investigated: the inverse fluidized bed reactor and the inverse turbulent reactor. In these reactors, a granular floating solid is expanded by a down-flow current of effluent or an up-flow current of gas, respectively. The carrier particles (Extendospheres(()(TM)())) were chosen for their larp specific surface area (20,000 m(2)m(-3)) and their low energy requirements for fluidization (gas velocity of 1.5 mm s(-1), 5.4 m h(-1)). Organic load was increased stepwise by reducing hydraulic retention time from more than 60 days to 3 days, while maintaining constant the feed COD concentration. Both reactors achieved more than 90% of COD removal at an organic loading rate of 10-12 kg(COD) m(-3) d(-1), respectively. The performances observed were similar or even higher than that of other previously tested fluidized bed technologies treating the same wastewater. It was found that the main advantages of this system are: low energy requirement, because of the low fluidization velocities required; there is no need of a settling device, because solids accumulate at the bottom of the reactor, so they can be easily drawn out and particles with high-biomass content can be easily recovered. Lipid phosphate concentration has been revealed as a good method for biomass estimation in biofilms since it only includes living biomass.
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