The long start-up period of fluidized bed biofilm reactors is a serious obstacle for their wide installation in the anaerobic treatment of industrial wastewater. This paper presents the results of an anaerobic inverse turbulent bioreactor treating distillery wastewater during 117 days of operation at a laboratory scale. The pre-colonized bioparticles for this work were obtained from a similar reactor processing the same wastewater and which had a start-up period of 3 months. The system attained carbon removal efficiency rates between 70 and 92%, at an organic loading rate of 30.6 kg m+3 d+1 (chemical oxygen demand) with a hydraulic retention time of 11.1 h. The results obtained showed that the start-up period of this kind of reactors can be reduced by 3 using pre-colonized bioparticles.
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Start up of an anaerobic inverse turbulent bed reactor fed with wine distillery wastewater using pre-colonised bioparticles Available to Purchase
C. Arnaiz;
*Departamento de Ingeniería Química y Ambiental, Escuela Universitaria Politécnica, Universidad de Sevilla, Virgen de África 7, 41011 Sevilla, Spain
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S. Elmaleh;
S. Elmaleh
**Groupe Génie des Procédés, Université de Montpellier II, CC 024, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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J. Lebrato;
J. Lebrato
***Grupo TAR, Escuela Universitaria Politécnica, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
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R. Moletta
R. Moletta
****Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l'Environnement INRA, Avenue des Etangs 11100 Narbonne, France
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Water Sci Technol (2005) 51 (1): 153–158.
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C. Arnaiz, S. Elmaleh, J. Lebrato, R. Moletta; Start up of an anaerobic inverse turbulent bed reactor fed with wine distillery wastewater using pre-colonised bioparticles. Water Sci Technol 1 January 2005; 51 (1): 153–158. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2005.0019
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