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Anaerobic treatment of low concentration waste water in an inverse fluidized bed reactor
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Low Concentration SyntheticEngineeringWaste TreatmentBiological Waste TreatmentMunicipal WastewaterAnaerobic DigestionWastewater TreatmentChemical EngineeringBioremediationWater TreatmentEnvironmental MicrobiologyWastewater ManagementIndustrial WastewaterWaste ManagementAnaerobic InverseEnvironmental EngineeringEnvironmental RemediationRemoval EfficiencyAnaerobic Treatment
Low concentration synthetic and municipal wastewaters were treated at HRT as short as 3 and 0.6 h respectively in an anaerobic inverse fluidized bed. Both bioreactors showed gas hold up due to the liquid downflow pattern of the prototype. The bioreactor operated at 3 h had a removal efficiency of 83%, specific activity of 4.5 kg CODremoved/kg IVS (d and the gas hold up varied from 23 to 55%. The reactor treating municipal wastewater had a removal efficiency of 44% when operating at 0.6 h, the specific activity was 4.2 kg CODremoved/kg IVS (d and no biogas was detected apparently because an important fraction was dissolved in the liquid phase. The biomass concentration was 13.8 and 1.1 kg IVS/m3 for synthetic and municipal wastewater and the SEM microphotographs showed a bacterial diversity for the first run and only cocci cells for the second run. The system does not remove suspended solids, so a polishing postreatment to improve water quality has to be implemented.