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High-efficiency treatment of PTA wastewater using a biogas jet assisted anaerobic fluidized bed reactor.

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In this paper, a new type of biogas jet assisted anaerobic fluidized bed reactor loaded with a polypropylene (PP) carrier, has been proposed. There was a clear improvement in the fluidized state due to the biogas assisted input when the gas/water ratio was set at 1:3 with a suitable carrier loading of 60%. When the circulating water flow is 30 L/min assisted with biogas 10 L/min, the mixing time shortens from 26 s to 18 s. The performance of anaerobic biodegradation on wastewater treatment was improved largely. The chemical oxygen demand (COD) and terepthallic acid (TA) removal efficiencies were at 85.4% and 84% respectively at HRT of 20h, even when the influent COD concentration was as high as 4224 mg/L. In addition, plenty of microorganisms, attached to the carriers and assumed to be the reason behind the organic biodegradation efficiency of the proposed system, were observed using scanning electron microscopy (SEM).

Year of Publication
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2018
Journal
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Environmental technology
Number of Pages
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1-23
Date Published
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2018
ISSN Number
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0959-3330
URL
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http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09593330.2018.1426636
DOI
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10.1080/09593330.2018.1426636
Short Title
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Environ Technol
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