3 Biotechniques for Air Pollution Control Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress on Biotechniques for Air Pollution Control, A Coruña, Spain, October 3-5, 2007 Christian Kennes and María C. Veiga (eds.) A Coruña 2007 Universidade da Coruña Servizo de Publicacións 4 Biotechniques for Air Pollution Control Christian Kennes, María C. Veiga (eds.) A Coruña, 2007 Universidade da Coruña, Servizo de Publicacións Cursos_Congresos_Simposios, nº. 92 616 páxinas. 17 x 24 cm. Índice: páxinas 5-12 ISBN: 978-84-9749-258-4 Depósito legal: C 3157-2007 Materia: 504: Ciencias do medio ambiente. 66: Tecnoloxía química Edición: Universidade da Coruña, Servizo de Publicacións, http://www.udc.es/publicaciones © Os autores © Universidade da Coruña Distribución: Galicia: CONSORCIO EDITORIAL GALEGO. Estrada da Estación 70-A, 36818, A Portela. Redondela (Pontevedra). Tel. 986 405 051. Fax: 986 404 935. Correo electrónico: [email protected] España: BREOGÁN. C/ Lanuza, 11. 28022, Madrid. Tel. 91 725 90 72. Fax: 91 713 06 31. Correo electrónico: [email protected]. Web: http://www.breogan.org Imprime: Lugami Artes Gráficas Reservados todos os dereitos. Nin a totalidade nin parte deste libro pode reproducirse ou transmitirse por ningún procedemento electrónico ou mecánico, incluíndo fotocopia, gravación magnética ou calquera almacenamento de información e sistema de recupe- ración, sen o permiso previo e por escrito das persoas titulares do copyright. 5 Contents ODOUR CONTROL IMPROVING ODOUR MANAGEMENT AND ABATEMENT PERFOR- MANCE USING OLFACTORY GC-MS GAVIN PARCSI AND RICHARD M. STUETZ........................................................... 15 A STATISTICAL PERSPECTIVE ON BIOFILTER PERFORMANCE IN RELATION TO THE MAIN PROCESS PARAMETERS AND CHARACTE- RISTICS OF UNTREATED FLOWS ANTON PHILIP VAN HARREVELD ........................................................................ 29 REFURBISHMENT OF AN ODOUR COLLECTION AND BIOFILTER TREATMENT SYSTEM AT A MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE COMPOSTING FACILITY IN PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA TERRY J. SCHULZ AND STUART MCALL............................................................. 41 ODOUR AND H S DEGRADATION IN A FULL SCALE BIOFILTER WITH 2 A MINERAL BASED ORGANIC COATED FILTER MEDIA FRANZ-BERND FRECHEN, WOLFRAM FRANKE AND BJÖRN SCHOLL...................... 53 HIGH THROUGHPUT BIOFILTRATION FOR ODOUR CONTROL AT WATER PURIFICATION PLANT VITALY ZHUKOV, ANDREY VEPRITZKY, LEONID MITIN AND VLADIMIR POPOV...... 59 CONTINUOUS MONITORING OF ODOURS AT A BIOFILTER OUTLET SELENA SIRONI, LAURA CAPELLI, PAOLO CÉNTOLA, RENATO DEL ROSSO AND MASSIMILIANO IL GRANDE................................................................................ 67 REMOVAL OF ODOUR AND AMMONIA IN VENTILATION AIR FROM GROWING-FINISHING PIG UNITS USING VERTICAL BIOFILTERS ANDERS LEEGAARD RIIS................................................................................... 77 MEMBRANE INLET MASS SPECTROMETRY (MIMS) AS A TOOL FOR EVALUATING BIOLOGICAL AIR FILTERS IN AGRICULTURE ANDERS FEILBERG............................................................................................ 85 6 MODELING AND TECHNOLOGICAL ASPECTS MODELING OF A FUNGAL BIOFILTER FOR THE ABATEMENT OF HYDROPHOBIC VOCs ALBERTO VERGARA-FERNÁNDEZ AND SERGIO REVAH......................................... 95 GASOLINE BIOFILTRATION: AN ANALYTIC MODEL ANDREW M. GERRARD, MARTIN HALECKY AND JAN PACA................................. 107 MODELING OF BIOMASS ACCUMULATION AND FILTER BED STRUCTURE CHANGE IN BIOFILTERS FOR GASEOUS TOLUENE REMOVAL JINYING XI, HONG-YING HU AND CAN WANG................................................... 115 MODELLING THE ADSORPTION OF STYRENE AND ACETONE ON ACTIVATED CARBON AND PERLITE BEDS ANDREW M. GERRARD, SEBASTIAN MOLLENCAMP, KEHINDE MAKINDE, JAN PACA AND ONDREJ MISIACZEK................................................................................... 125 CO-TREATMENT OF BENZENE AND TOLUENE VAPOURS IN A BIOFILTER: A FACTORIAL DESIGN APPROACH ELDON R. RENE AND T. SWAMINATHAN............................................................. 133 MATHEMATICAL MODELING AND SIMULATION OF VOLATILE REDUCED SULFUR COMPOUNDS OXIDATION IN BIOTRICKLING FILTERS G. AROCA, M. CÁCERES, S. PRADO, C. SÁNCHEZ AND R. SAN MARTÍN ............. 143 ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK BASED MODEL FOR EVALUATING PERFORMANCE OF IMMOBILIZED CELL BIOFILTER ELDON R. RENE, JUNG HOON KIM AND HUNG SUCK PARK................................ 153 BIODESULPHURISATION AND BIOGAS TREATMENT DEVELOPMENT OF A FAMILY OF LARGE-SCALE BIOTECHNOLO- GICAL PROCESSES TO DESULPHURISE INDUSTRIAL GASSES ALBERT J.H. JANSSEN, ROBIN VAN LEERDAM, PIM VAN DEN BOSCH, ERIK VAN ZESSEN, GIJS VAN HEERINGEN AND CEES BUISMAN........................................... 167 7 STUDY OF A DESULFURIZATION PROCESS TO CONVERT DIBENZO- THIOPHENE TO 2-HYDROXYBIPHENYL BY RHODOCOCCUS RHODOCHROUS NRRL (B-2149) A.B. SOARES JÚNIOR, Y. K. P. GURGEL, B.M.E. CHAGAS, T. B. DOMINGOS, G.R. MACEDO AND E. S. SANTOS ..................................................................... 185 CONTROL OF METHANE EMISSIONS ISSUING FROM LANDFILLS: THE CANADIAN CASE JOSIANE NIKIEMA AND MICHÈLE HEITZ ............................................................. 193 DESULFURISATION OF BIOGAS BY BIOFILTRATION DIANA RAMÍREZ-SÁENZ AND INÉS GARCÍA PEÑA............................................... 201 AN INNOVATIVE BIOTRICKLING FILTER FOR H S REMOVAL FROM 2 BIOGAS LAURA BAILÓN ALLEGUE................................................................................. 215 REMOVAL OF INORGANIC POLLUTANTS REMOVAL OF AMMONIA BY IMMOBILIZED NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA IN A BIOTRICKLING FILTER PACKED WITH POLYU- RETHANE FOAM MARTÍN RAMÍREZ, JOSÉ MANUEL GÓMEZ AND DOMINGO CANTERO ................... 227 STUDY OF NH REMOVAL BY GAS-PHASE BIOFILTRATION: EFFECTS 3 OF SHOCK LOADS AND WATERING RATE ON BIOFILTER PERFORMANCE GUILLERMO BAQUERIZO, JUAN PEDRO MAESTRE, XAVIER GAMISANS, DAVID GABRIEL AND JAVIER LAFUENTE........................................................................ 239 HIGH H S CONCENTRATIONS ABATEMENT IN A BIOTRICKLING 2 FILTER: START-UP AT CONTROLLED pH AND EFFECT OF THE EBRT AND O /H S SUPPLY RATIO 2 2 MARC FORTUNY, MARC A. DESHUSSES, XAVIER GAMISANS, CARLES CASAS, DAVID GABRIEL AND JAVIER LAFUENTE............................................................. 251 8 AMMONIA TRANSFORMATION IN A BIOTRICKLING AIR FILTER LARS PETER NIELSEN, MARIE LOUISE NIELSEN, MATHIAS ANDERSEN AND ANDERS M. NIELSEN..................................................................................................... 263 REMOVAL OF HYDROGEN SULFIDE USING UPFLOW AND DOWNFLOW BIOFILTERS WONGPUN LIMPASENI AND NATTAPOL RATTANAMUK .......................................... 273 PROPOSING A NEW BATCH METHOD FOR ASSESSMENT OF BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY IN H S DEGRADING BIOTRICKLING FILTERS 2 L. OTEGI AND L. LARREA................................................................................. 283 EFFECT OF VARIOUS FACTORS TO AMMONIA BIODEGRADATION BY TWO STAGE BIOFILTRATION SYSTEM SILVIJA STRIKAUSKA, DZIDRA ZARI A, OLGA MUTERE, ULDIS VIESTURS AND ANDREJS ............................................................................................. 293 MEMBRANE BIOREACTORS REMOVAL OF DIMETHYL SULFIDE IN A THERMOPHILIC MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR MUNKHTSETSEG LUVSANJAMBA, AMIT KUMAR AND HERMAN VAN LANGENHOVE...................................................................... 305 BIOLOGICAL WASTE GAS PURIFICATION USING MEMBRANES: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES N.J.R. KRAAKMAN, N. VAN RAS, D. LLEWELLYN, D. STARMANS AND P. REBEYRE...................................................................................................... 313 TREATMENT OF THE CONFINED AIR OF A SPACECRAFT CABIN AUDREY RAMIS, CÉCILE HORT, SABINE SOCHARD AND VINCENT PLATEL............ 323 GAS-PHASE TOLUENE BIODEGRADATION BY BURKHOLDERIA VIETNAMIENSIS G4 IN A BIOFILM MEMBRANE REACTOR AMIT KUMAR, JO DEWULF, MUNKHTSETSEG LUVSANJAMBA AND HERMAN VAN LANGENHOVE...................................................................... 335 9 VOC REMOVAL IN CONVENTIONAL AND BIOTRICKLING FILTERS TREATMENT OF GAS PHASE STYRENE IN A BIOFILTER UNDER STEADY-STATE CONDITIONS ELDON R. RENE, MARÍA C. VEIGA AND CHRISTIAN KENNES.............................. 347 DEGRADATION OF SOLVENT MIXTURE VAPORS IN A BIOTRICKLING FILTER REACTOR: IMPACT OF HYDROPHILIC COMPONENTS LOADING AND LOADING RELEASE DYNAMIC JAN PACA, ONDREJ MISIACZEK, MARTIN HALECKY AND KIM JONES................... 357 PERFORMANCE OF PEAT BIOFILTERS TREATING ETHYL ACETATE AND TOLUENE MIXTURES UNDER NON-STEADY-STATE CONDITIONS F.J. ÁLVAREZ-HORNOS, C. GABALDÓN, V. MARTÍNEZ-SORIA, P. MARZAL AND J.M. PENYA-ROJA...................................................................................... 367 CHARACTERIZATION OF A BIOTRICKLING FILTER TREATING METHANOL VAPOURS A. ÁVALOS RAMÍREZ, J.P. JONES AND M. HEITZ ............................................... 379 PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF FUNGAL BIOFILTERS PACKED WITH PALL RING, LAVA ROCK, AND PERLITE FOR α-PINENE REMOVAL YAOMIN JIN, MARÍA C. VEIGA AND CHRISTIAN KENNES .................................... 385 STYRENE DEGRADATION IN PERLITE BIOFILTER: THE OVERALL PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS AND DYNAMIC RESPONSE M. HALECKY, J. PACA, A. M. GERRARD AND C.R. SOCCOL .............................. 397 BIODEGRADATION OF METHYL ETHYL KETONE AND METHYL ISOPROPYL KETONE IN A COMPOSITE BEAD BIOFILTER WU-CHUNG CHAN AND KANG-HONG PENG....................................................... 405 REMOVAL OF A MIXTURE OF OXYGENATED VOCs IN A BIOTRI- CKLING FILTER F. J. ÁLVAREZ-HORNOS, C. GABALDÓN, V. MARTÍNEZ-SORIA, P. MARZAL, J.M. PENYA-ROJA AND F. SEMPERE............................................................................ 415 10 EMERGING BIOREACTOR TECHNOLOGIES SOLID-LIQUID TWO-PHASE PARTITIONING BIOREACTORS FOR THE TREATMENT OF GAS-PHASE VOCs ANDREW J. DAUGULIS, JENNIFER V. LITTLEJOHNS AND NEAL G. BOUDREAU....... 427 MICROBIAL SOLVENT REGENERATION IN BIOTREATMENT OF AIR CONTAMINATED BY STYRENE ERIC DUMONT AND YVES ANDRÈS..................................................................... 439 LONG-TERM STABILITY OF PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA CULTURES DURING THE OFF-GAS TREATMENT OF TOLUENE RAÚL MUÑOZ, ANTONIA ROJAS, LUIS FELIPE DÍAZ, SERGIO BORDEL AND SANTIAGO VILLAVERDE.............................................................................. 447 DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL BIOSCRUBBING PROCESS FOR COMPLETE TREATMENT OF NO FROM FLUE GASES X SANJEEV S.R. ARJUNAGI AND LIGY PHILIP......................................................... 457 DICHLOROMETHANE REMOVAL USING MIXED CULTURES IN A BIOFILTER AND A MODIFIED ROTATING BIOLOGICAL CONTACTOR– START UP STUDIES R. RAVI, LIGY PHILIP AND T. SWAMINATHAN ..................................................... 469 BEHAVIOUR AND OPTIMIZATION OF A NOVEL MONOLITH BIOREACTOR FOR WASTE GAS TREATMENT YAOMIN JIN, MARÍA C. VEIGA AND CHRISTIAN KENNES .................................... 477 BIODEGRADATION OF BTXS AND SUBSTRATE INTERACTIONS IN A BIOACTIVE FOAM REACTOR JIHYEON SONG AND SHONG-GYU SHIN ............................................................. 487 CHARACTERIZATION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF A TWO- PHASE PARTITIONING BIOREACTOR FOR VOLATILES ORGANIC COMPOUNDS TREATMENT IN OFF-GAS JEAN-MARC ALDRIC AND PHILIPPE THONART..................................................... 495 11 REMOVAL OF DICHLOROMETHANE FROM WASTE GASES USING A FIXED-BED BIOTRICKLING FILTER AND A CONTINUOUS STIRRED TANK BIOREACTOR LAURA BAILÓN, YOLANDA DOPICO, MARCELL NIKOLAUSZ, MATTHIAS KÄSTNER, MARÍA C. VEIGA AND CHRISTIAN KENNES......................................................... 505 MICROBIAL ECOLOGY AND BIOFILMS DEVELOPMENT OF A RELIABLE EXTRACTION METHOD FOR THE RECOVERY OF TOTAL GENOMIC DNA FROM WOODCHIP COLONIZING BIOFILM INVOLVED IN GAS BIOFILTRATION LÉA CABROL, LUC MALHAUTIER, JANICK ROCHER, FRANCK POLY, XAVIER LE ROUX, MARC JOVIC, ANNE-SOPHIE LEPEUPLE AND JEAN-LOUIS FANLO.............. 517 FT-IR CHARACTERIZATION OF BIOFILMS FORMED ON ENGI- NEERED BIOFILTRATION MEDIA TREATING VOLATILE ORGANIC EMISSIONS FOR THE FOREST PRODUCTS INDUSTRY KIM JONES, MILI KHILNANI, ANAND KARRE, SERGIO SANTOS AND JAN PACA .... 529 MONITORING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BACTERIAL POPULA- TIONS OF TWO BIOLOGICAL AIR FILTERS DURING THE START UP PHASE M. JOVIC, L. CABROL, F. DUCRAY, R. GAGNEUX AND A. S. LEPEUPLE .............. 539 BIOFILTER RESPONSE TO BIOMASS REACTIVATION FOR VOC TREATMENT A. ELÍAS, A. BARONA, G. GALLASTEGI, M. LARRAÑAGA AND M. FERNÁNDEZ ... 551 A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE CHARACTERISTICS AND PHYSICAL BEHAVIOUR OF DIFFERENT PACKING MATERIALS COMMONLY USED IN BIOFILTRATION ANTONI D. DORADO, XAVIER GAMISANS, DAVID GABRIEL AND JAVIER LAFUENTE...................................................................................... 561 SUITABILITY OF DUST AND BIOAEROSOLS FROM A PIG STABLE AS INOCULUM FOR BIOLOGICAL AIR FILTERS ANJA KRISTIANSEN, PER HALKJÆR NIELSEN AND JEPPE LUND NIELSEN.............. 573