Biotechniques for Air Pollution Control : proceedings of the II International Congress on Biotechniques for Air Pollution Control, A Coruña, Spain, October 3-5, 2007

ODOUR CONTROL IMPROVING ODOUR MANAGEMENT AND ABATEMENT PERFORMANCE USING OLFACTORY GC-MS GAVIN PARCSI AND RICHARD M. STUETZ........................................................... A STATISTICAL PERSPECTIVE ON BIOFILTER PERFORMANCE IN RELATION TO THE MAIN PROCESS PARAMETERS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF UNTREATED FLOWS ANTON PHILIP VAN HARREVELD ........................................................................ 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 ............................................................. ODOUR AND H2S DEGRADATION IN A FULL SCALE BIOFILTER WITH A MINERAL BASED ORGANIC COATED FILTER MEDIA FRANZ-BERND FRECHEN, WOLFRAM FRANKE AND BJÖRN SCHOLL ...................... HIGH THROUGHPUT BIOFILTRATION FOR ODOUR CONTROL AT WATER PURIFICATION PLANT VITALY ZHUKOV, ANDREY VEPRITZKY, LEONID MITIN AND VLADIMIR POPOV...... CONTINUOUS MONITORING OF ODOURS AT A BIOFILTER OUTLET SELENA SIRONI, LAURA CAPELLI, PAOLO CÉNTOLA, RENATO DEL ROSSO AND MASSIMILIANO IL GRANDE ................................................................................ REMOVAL OF ODOUR AND AMMONIA IN VENTILATION AIR FROM GROWING-FINISHING PIG UNITS USING VERTICAL BIOFILTERS ANDERS LEEGAARD RIIS ................................................................................... MEMBRANE INLET MASS SPECTROMETRY (MIMS) AS A TOOL FOR EVALUATING BIOLOGICAL AIR FILTERS IN AGRICULTURE ANDERS FEILBERG ............................................................................................ MODELING AND TECHNOLOGICAL ASPECTS MODELING OF A FUNGAL BIOFILTER FOR THE ABATEMENT OF HYDROPHOBIC VOCs ALBERTO VERGARA-FERNÁNDEZ AND SERGIO REVAH ......................................... GASOLINE BIOFILTRATION: AN ANALYTIC MODEL ANDREW M. GERRARD, MARTIN HALECKY AND JAN PACA ................................. MODELING OF BIOMASS ACCUMULATION AND FILTER BED STRUCTURE CHANGE IN BIOFILTERS FOR GASEOUS TOLUENE REMOVAL JINYING XI, HONG-YING HU AND CAN WANG................................................... 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 ................................................................................... CO-TREATMENT OF BENZENE AND TOLUENE VAPOURS IN A BIOFILTER: A FACTORIAL DESIGN APPROACH ELDON R. RENE AND T. SWAMINATHAN ............................................................. 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 ............. ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK BASED MODEL FOR EVALUATING PERFORMANCE OF IMMOBILIZED CELL BIOFILTER ELDON R. RENE, JUNG HOON KIM AND HUNG SUCK PARK ................................ BIODESULPHURISATION AND BIOGAS TREATMENT DEVELOPMENT OF A FAMILY OF LARGE-SCALE BIOTECHNOLOGICAL 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 ........................................... 95 107 115 125 133 143 153 167 STUDY OF A DESULFURIZATION PROCESS TO CONVERT DIBENZOTHIOPHENE 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 ..................................................................... CONTROL OF METHANE EMISSIONS ISSUING FROM LANDFILLS: THE CANADIAN CASE JOSIANE NIKIEMA AND MICHÈLE HEITZ ............................................................. DESULFURISATION OF BIOGAS BY BIOFILTRATION DIANA RAMÍREZ-SÁENZ AND INÉS GARCÍA PEÑA ............................................... AN INNOVATIVE BIOTRICKLING FILTER FOR H2S REMOVAL FROM BIOGAS LAURA BAILÓN ALLEGUE ................................................................................. REMOVAL OF INORGANIC POLLUTANTS REMOVAL OF AMMONIA BY IMMOBILIZED NITROSOMONAS EUROPAEA IN A BIOTRICKLING FILTER PACKED WITH POLYURETHANE FOAM MARTÍN RAMÍREZ, JOSÉ MANUEL GÓMEZ AND DOMINGO CANTERO ................... STUDY OF NH3 REMOVAL BY GAS-PHASE BIOFILTRATION: EFFECTS OF SHOCK LOADS AND WATERING RATE ON BIOFILTER PERFORMANCE GUILLERMO BAQUERIZO, JUAN PEDRO MAESTRE, XAVIER GAMISANS, DAVID GABRIEL AND JAVIER LAFUENTE ........................................................................ HIGH H2S CONCENTRATIONS ABATEMENT IN A BIOTRICKLING FILTER: START-UP AT CONTROLLED pH AND EFFECT OF THE EBRT AND O2/H2S SUPPLY RATIO MARC FORTUNY, MARC A. DESHUSSES, XAVIER GAMISANS, CARLES CASAS, DAVID GABRIEL AND JAVIER LAFUENTE ............................................................. 185 193 201 215 227 239 251 AMMONIA TRANSFORMATION IN A BIOTRICKLING AIR FILTER LARS PETER NIELSEN, MARIE LOUISE NIELSEN, MATHIAS ANDERSEN AND ANDERS M. NIELSEN ..................................................................................................... REMOVAL OF HYDROGEN SULFIDE USING UPFLOW AND DOWNFLOW BIOFILTERS WONGPUN LIMPASENI AND NATTAPOL RATTANAMUK .......................................... PROPOSING A NEW BATCH METHOD FOR ASSESSMENT OF BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY IN H2S DEGRADING BIOTRICKLING FILTERS L. OTEGI AND L. LARREA ................................................................................. EFFECT OF VARIOUS FACTORS TO AMMONIA BIODEGRADATION BY TWO STAGE BIOFILTRATION SYSTEM SILVIJA STRIKAUSKA, DZIDRA ZARI A, OLGA MUTERE, ULDIS VIESTURS AND ANDREJS ............................................................................................. MEMBRANE BIOREACTORS REMOVAL OF DIMETHYL SULFIDE IN A THERMOPHILIC MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR MUNKHTSETSEG LUVSANJAMBA, AMIT KUMAR AND HERMAN VAN LANGENHOVE ...................................................................... BIOLOGICAL WASTE GAS PURIFICATION USING MEMBRANES: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES N.J.R. KRAAKMAN, N. VAN RAS, D. LLEWELLYN, D. STARMANS AND P. REBEYRE ...................................................................................................... TREATMENT OF THE CONFINED AIR OF A SPACECRAFT CABIN AUDREY RAMIS, CÉCILE HORT, SABINE SOCHARD AND VINCENT PLATEL ............ GAS-PHASE TOLUENE BIODEGRADATION BY BURKHOLDERIA VIETNAMIENSIS G4 IN A BIOFILM MEMBRANE REACTOR AMIT KUMAR, JO DEWULF, MUNKHTSETSEG LUVSANJAMBA AND HERMAN VAN LANGENHOVE ...................................................................... 263 273 283 293 305 313 323 335 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 .............................. 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 ................... 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 ...................................................................................... CHARACTERIZATION OF A BIOTRICKLING FILTER TREATING METHANOL VAPOURS A. ÁVALOS RAMÍREZ, J.P. JONES AND M. HEITZ ............................................... 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 .................................... STYRENE DEGRADATION IN PERLITE BIOFILTER: THE OVERALL PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS AND DYNAMIC RESPONSE M. HALECKY, J. PACA, A. M. GERRARD AND C.R. SOCCOL .............................. BIODEGRADATION OF METHYL ETHYL KETONE AND METHYL ISOPROPYL KETONE IN A COMPOSITE BEAD BIOFILTER WU-CHUNG CHAN AND KANG-HONG PENG ....................................................... REMOVAL OF A MIXTURE OF OXYGENATED VOCs IN A BIOTRICKLING FILTER F. J. ÁLVAREZ-HORNOS, C. GABALDÓN, V. MARTÍNEZ-SORIA, P. MARZAL, J.M. PENYA-ROJA AND F. SEMPERE ............................................................................ 347 357 367 379 385 397 405 415 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 ....... MICROBIAL SOLVENT REGENERATION IN BIOTREATMENT OF AIR CONTAMINATED BY STYRENE ERIC DUMONT AND YVES ANDRÈS ..................................................................... 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 .............................................................................. DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL BIOSCRUBBING PROCESS FOR COMPLETE TREATMENT OF NOX FROM FLUE GASES SANJEEV S.R. ARJUNAGI AND LIGY PHILIP ......................................................... DICHLOROMETHANE REMOVAL USING MIXED CULTURES IN A BIOFILTER AND A MODIFIED ROTATING BIOLOGICAL CONTACTOR– START UP STUDIES R. RAVI, LIGY PHILIP AND T. SWAMINATHAN ..................................................... BEHAVIOUR AND OPTIMIZATION OF A NOVEL MONOLITH BIOREACTOR FOR WASTE GAS TREATMENT YAOMIN JIN, MARÍA C. VEIGA AND CHRISTIAN KENNES .................................... BIODEGRADATION OF BTXS AND SUBSTRATE INTERACTIONS IN A BIOACTIVE FOAM REACTOR JIHYEON SONG AND SHONG-GYU SHIN ............................................................. CHARACTERIZATION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF A TWOPHASE PARTITIONING BIOREACTOR FOR VOLATILES ORGANIC COMPOUNDS TREATMENT IN OFF-GAS JEAN-MARC ALDRIC AND PHILIPPE THONART ..................................................... 427 439 447 457 469 477 487 495 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 ......................................................... 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 .............. FT-IR CHARACTERIZATION OF BIOFILMS FORMED ON ENGINEERED BIOFILTRATION MEDIA TREATING VOLATILE ORGANIC EMISSIONS FOR THE FOREST PRODUCTS INDUSTRY KIM JONES, MILI KHILNANI, ANAND KARRE, SERGIO SANTOS AND JAN PACA .... MONITORING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BACTERIAL POPULATIONS OF TWO BIOLOGICAL AIR FILTERS DURING THE START UP PHASE M. JOVIC, L. CABROL, F. DUCRAY, R. GAGNEUX AND A. S. LEPEUPLE .............. BIOFILTER RESPONSE TO BIOMASS REACTIVATION FOR VOC TREATMENT A. ELÍAS, A. BARONA, G. GALLASTEGI, M. LARRAÑAGA AND M. FERNÁNDEZ ... 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 ...................................................................................... SUITABILITY OF DUST AND BIOAEROSOLS FROM A PIG STABLE AS INOCULUM FOR BIOLOGICAL AIR FILTERS ANJA KRISTIANSEN, PER HALKJÆR NIELSEN AND JEPPE LUND NIELSEN .............. 505 517 529 539 551 561 573 PILOT-SCALE AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS BIOFILTRATION OF BITUMEN VAPOURS–OPERATIONAL ASPECTS MATTHIEU GIRARD, JEAN-LOUIS FANLO, NICOLAS TURGEON, GERARDO BUELNA AND PAUL LESSARD .......................................................................................... COMPARISON OF THREE PILOT PLANTS FILLED WITH ORGANIC MATERIALS FOR THE TREATMENT OF AIR POLLUTANTS FROM A COMPOSTING PLANT SÉBASTIEN BASSIVIÈRE, FLORENCE DUCRAY AND CHRISTOPHE RENNER .............. BIOFILTRATION SYSTEMS FOR THE TREATMENT OF WASTE GAS FROM INDUSTRIAL PLANTS IAN PHILLIPS .................................................................................................... 587 597 605