Bioprocesses for Air Pollution Control
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2014) | Viewed by 42826
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Interests: waste gas treatment; wastewater treatment; fermentation technology; biodegradation; bioconversion; biofuels; biorefinery
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Dear Colleague,
Air pollution has become a major concern worldwide. Different technologies are available for the removal of volatile pollutants, based either on mass-transfer of the pollutants from one phase to another or on the destruction of the pollutants. Bioprocesses belong to the latter group of technologies. Bioreactors allow the complete removal of odors and other volatile compounds from gaseous effluents. Bioprocesses can be used for the treatment of a wide range of gas flow rates, allowing complete destruction of pollutants or, occasionally, allowing their conversion to useful products. Recent developments have been made in the field of bioprocesses for air pollution control, which justifies the interest of a special issue in this field on topics such as:
- Optimization of conventional bioreactors (biofilters, biotrickling filters, bioscrubbers)
- Innovative bioreactors
- Hybrid (biological+non-biological) and two-stage bioreactors
- Anaerobic gas treatment
- Resource recovery from waste gases
- Biogas upgrading
- Modelling of bioprocesses
- Industrial and full-scale applications and case studies
Prof. Christian Kennes
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- air pollution control
- biofilters
- biotrickling filters
- bioscrubbers
- two-liquid phase reactors
- membrane bioreactors
- NOx, SOx
- odors
- volatile organic compounds
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