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Dynamics of adsorption columns with bacterial growth outside adsorbents
Author(s) -
Tien Chi,
Wang ShuChieh
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
the canadian journal of chemical engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1939-019X
pISSN - 0008-4034
DOI - 10.1002/cjce.5450600306
Subject(s) - adsorption , denitrifying bacteria , bacterial growth , aqueous solution , valeric acid , dynamics (music) , chemistry , chemical engineering , bacteria , organic chemistry , nitrogen , physics , biology , denitrification , acetic acid , genetics , acoustics , engineering
The dynamics of adsorption columns with the presence of bacterial activity was studied analytically and experimentally. The bacterial activity results in the formation of growing microbial films outside adsorbents. Equations describing the interaction between adsorption and bacterial growth were formulated and algorithms for their solutions developed. Experiments relating to the removal of valeric acid from aqueous solutions with granular carbon in the presence of denitrifying bacteria were performed to substantiate the analysis.