Title
Methane biofiltration using autoclaved aerated concrete as the carrier material
Date Issued
18 September 2015
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Ghent University
Publisher(s)
Springer Verlag
Abstract
The methane removal capacity of mixed methane-oxidizing bacteria (MOB) culture in a biofilter setup using autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) as a highly porous carrier material was tested. Batch experiment was performed to optimize MOB immobilization on AAC specimens where optimum methane removal was obtained when calcium chloride was not added during bacterial inoculation step and 10-mm-thick AAC specimens were used. The immobilized MOB could remove methane at low concentration (~1000 ppmv) in a biofilter setup for 127 days at average removal efficiency (RE) of 28.7 %. Unlike a plug flow reactor, increasing the total volume of the filter by adding a biofilter in series did not result in higher total RE. MOB also exhibited a higher abundance at the bottom of the filter, in proximity with the methane gas inlet where a high methane concentration was found. Overall, an efficient methane biofilter performance could be obtained using AAC as the carrier material.
Start page
7307
End page
7320
Volume
99
Issue
17
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Otras ingenierías y tecnologías
Biología celular, Microbiología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84939260115
PubMed ID
Source
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
ISSN of the container
01757598
Sponsor(s)
The project is fully funded by SIM-SHE SECEMIN project (SIM 2009–1) and the Geconcerteerde Onderzoeksactie (GOA) of Ghent University (BOF09/GOA/005). The authors gratefully acknowledge Ralph Lindeboom, Alberto Scoma, and Amanda Panda Luther for critically reviewing this paper. This publication is Publication no. 5852 of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology.
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