Controlling biofilm retention time in an A-stage high-rate moving bed biofilm reactor for organic carbon redirection

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The A-stage of the AB process can minimize carbon oxidation by redirecting carbon to side-stream processes for harvesting carbon as energy and/or bioproduct. The redirection/harvesting of carbon has been studied in systems which utilize suspended biomass cultures. The potential of high-rate moving bed biofilm reactors, however, has not been explored. This study sought to control the biofilm solids retention time in a high-rate moving bed biofilm reactor operated at 17 ± 4 g-bCOD m-2d-1. Biofilm solids retention time was controlled by one of two strategies (i.e., 100% and 60% effective biofilm removal) that targeted several nominal biofilm solids retention times (i.e., 8, 6, 4, and 2 days) by employing different biocarrier replacement times. The results demonstrated that the suspended solids activity could be reduced by decreasing the nominal biofilm solids retention time. Using the 60% biofilm removal strategy, the actual biofilm solids retention time with a nominal biofilm solids retention time of 2 days was 12 h. When utilizing the 100% biofilm removal strategy, an actual biofilm solids retention time of less than 3 h was achieved with a nominal biofilm solids retention time of 2 days. The control reactor, which was a conventional moving bed biofilm reactor with no biocarrier replacement, was estimated to have a biofilm solids retention time of 2 days. Overall, the biofilm removal strategies favored carbon redirection and maximized the biomass yield at 1.1 ± 0.3 g-TSS g-COD-1 removed.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:745

Enthalten in:

The Science of the total environment - 745(2020) vom: 25. Nov., Seite 141051

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

di Biase, Alessandro [VerfasserIn]
Kowalski, Maciej S [VerfasserIn]
Devlin, Tanner R [VerfasserIn]
Oleszkiewicz, Jan A [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

7440-44-0
Biofilm solids retention time control
Carbon
Carbon redirection
High-rate moving bed biofilm reactor
Journal Article
Observed yield

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Date Completed 07.10.2020

Date Revised 07.10.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141051

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM312884400