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Kinetics of BTEX Degradation in a Packed-Bed Anaerobic Reactor

Kinetics of BTEX Degradation in a Packed-Bed Anaerobic Reactor

Ivana Ribeiro deNardi, Marcelo Zaiat, Eugenio Foresti

Biodegradation. 2007 Feb;18(1):83-90.

PMID: 16400525

Abstract:

The ever-increasing diversity of industrial activity is responsible for the discharge of compounds that are toxic or difficult to degrade into the environment. Some of the compounds found in surface and ground waters, usually deriving from the contamination of oil-based products, are benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylenes (BTEX). To remove these compounds from contaminated water, a bench-scale horizontal-flow anaerobic immobilized biomass reactor, containing anaerobic biomass from various sources immobilized in polyurethane foam matrices, was employed to treat a synthetic substrate composed of protein, carbohydrates and BTEX solution in ethanol, as well as a BTEX solution in ethanol as the sole carbon source. The reactor removed up to 15.0 mg/l of each BTEX compound over a hydraulic detention time of 11.4 h. A first-order kinetic model fitted the experimental data well, showing correlation coefficients higher than 0.994. The apparent first-order coefficient values, k1(app), ranged from 8.4+/-1.5 day(-1) for benzene to 10.7+/-1.4 day(-1) for o-xylene in the presence of ethanol, protein and carbohydrates, and from 10.0+/-2.0 day(-1) for benzene to 13.0+/-1.7 day(-1) for o-xylene in the presence of ethanol. The BTEX degradation rates estimated here were 10- to 94-fold higher than those found in reports on microcosm studies.

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Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AS21156	BTEX Solution			Price

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