Performance of integral polypropylene packing coated with polydimethylsiloxane in biotrickling filter for toluene elimination

R Lv, J Kang, X Fan, J Li - Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 2023 - Elsevier
Biotrickling filters (BTFs) for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) have attracted tremendous
research attention in the field of environmental engineering. However, the problem of …

Effect of toluene on m-xylene removal in a biotrickling filter: Performance, biofilm characteristics, and microbial analysis

J Liu, Y Han, X Dou, W Liang - Environmental Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Hydrophobic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) pose a challenge to the removal efficiency
in biotrickling filters (BTFs). The addition of relatively hydrophilic substances presents a …

Comparative study of the eliminating of waste gas containing toluene in twin biotrickling filters packed with molecular sieve and polyurethane foam

Z He, L Zhou, G Li, X Zeng, T An, G Sheng, J Fu… - Journal of hazardous …, 2009 - Elsevier
Two kinds of packing materials, molecular sieve (MS) and polyurethane foam (PUF), were
loaded into two identical biotrickling filters respectively to compare the microbial removal …

Fungal elimination of toluene vapor in one-and two-liquid phase biotrickling filters: Effects of inlet concentration, operating temperature, and peroxidase enzyme …

A Yousefinejad, SM Zamir, M Nosrati - Journal of environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study, performance of biotrickling filters (BTFs) inoculated with fungus Phanerochaete
chrysosporium at 30° C and 40° C in the absence and presence of silicone oil (10% v/v) was …

Performance of biotrickling filters packed with structured or cubic polyurethane sponges for VOC removal

C Yang, G Yu, G Zeng, H Yang, F Chen, C Jin - Journal of Environmental …, 2011 - Elsevier
Two identical bench-scale biotrickling filters (BTFs), BTF 1 and BTF 2, were evaluated for
toluene removal at various gas empty bed contact times (EBCTs) and organic loadings. BTF …

The styrene purification performance of biotrickling filter with toluene-styrene acclimatization under acidic conditions

K Li, J Zhou, L Wang, Z Mao, R Xu - Journal of the Air & Waste …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The obvious disadvantages of biotrickling filters (BTFs) are the long start-up time and low
removal efficiency (RE) when treating refractory hydrophobic volatile organic compounds …

Removal of benzene, toluene, xylene and styrene by biotrickling filters and identification of their interactions

D Liao, E Li, J Li, P Zeng, R Feng, M Xu, G Sun - Plos one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Biotrickling filters (BTFs) are becoming very potential means to purify waste gases
containing multiple VOC components, but the removal of the waste gases by BTF has been …

Removal of toluene in a biotrickling filter in the presence of methanol vapors: Experimental study, mathematical modeling, and kinetic parameters optimization

M Kalantar, SM Zamir, M Ferdowsi… - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
The performance of biotrickling filters (BTFs) has been significantly affected during the co-
treatment of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) with different hydrophilicities. Removal of …

Different strategies for transient-state operation of a biotrickling filter treating toluene vapor

A Alinejad, SM Zamir, SA Shojaosadati - Applied microbiology and …, 2017 - Springer
Biotrickling filters (BTFs) are often subjected to transient-state operation due to different
variations in the operation of industrial-scale sources of pollution. In this research …

Performance and microbial community evolution of toluene degradation using a fungi-based bio-trickling filter

Y Zhang, J Liu, Y Qin, Z Yang, J Cao, Y Xing… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2019 - Elsevier
Fungi have their unique advantages in capturing and degrading hydrophobic VOCs. To
study the performance of fungi-based bio-trickling filters (BTFs) with respect to the …