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T1 A comparative assessment of the performance of fungal-bacterial and fungal biofilters for methane abatement
A1 Vergara Fernández, Alberto
A1 Scott, Felipe
A1 Carreno López, Felipe
A1 Aroca, German
A1 Moreno Casas, Patricio
A1 González Sánchez, Armando
A1 Muñoz Torre, Raúl
K1 Reducción de metano
K1 Methane abatement
K1 Biofiltración
K1 Coeficiente de transferencia de masa
K1 Mass transfer coefficient
K1 23 Química
K1 24 Ciencias de la Vida
AB Methane is an important contributor to global warming and especially for dilute emissions, its oxidation to carbon dioxide can be difficult and expensive. Methane abatement was studied in a biofilter inoculated solely with the filamentous fungus Fusarium solani and compared to a biofilter inoculated with a consortium of methanotrophic bacteria (Methylomicrobium album and Methylocystis sp.) and F. solani.Results showed that F. solani degrade methane as the sole carbon source, achieving a maximum elimination capacity of 42.2 g m−3 h-1, nearly half of the maximum elimination capacity of the fungal-bacterial consortium. The second Damköhler number indicates that under the prevailing operational conditions, the fungal biofilter performance was bioreaction limited meanwhile external mass transport limitation was found on the fungal/methanotrophic bacteria biofilter.Results support the hypothesis that the beneficial effect of F. solani during CH4 biofiltration is mediated by biomass hydrophobicity rather than by an increase in the mass transfer area.
PB Elsevier
SN 2213-3437
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/46514
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/46514
LA eng
NO Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2020, vol. 8, n. 5, p. 104421
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 24-abr-2024