Open AccessDegradation of Halogenated Hydrocarbons by the Combined Application of Membrane Filtration with a Bioreactor
Author(s) -
Schierenbeck A.,
Haase C.,
Räbiger N.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
engineering in life sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.547
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1618-2863
pISSN - 1618-0240
DOI - 10.1002/elsc.200390041
Subject(s) - wastewater , degradation (telecommunications) , bioreactor , biomass (ecology) , membrane bioreactor , hazardous waste , environmental science , sewage treatment , filtration (mathematics) , industrial wastewater treatment , waste management , substrate (aquarium) , pulp and paper industry , pollution , biodegradation , residence time (fluid dynamics) , biochemical engineering , chemistry , environmental engineering , engineering , biology , organic chemistry , mathematics , ecology , telecommunications , statistics , geotechnical engineering
The selective biological elimination of hazardous substances from wastewater is of vital importance for production‐integrated pollution control. It provides an opportunity to degrade otherwise persistent substances from wastewater mixtures. State‐of‐the‐art industrial wastewater treatment plants cannot perform this task although the potential for an enzymatic degradation of most of these substances exists. This is due to the hydrodynamically determined mixing characteristics of the treatment plants. The aim of developing new technologies should be the adjustment of substrate‐specific residence times at immobilized biomass.