The purpose of this work was to examine the settling properties of activated sludge from a sequencing batch reactor (SBR). The experiments were carried out in a bench-scale reactor, fed with wastewater from the University of Olsztyn treatment plant. Concentrations of the examined activated sludge varied between 2.5 and 6.0 kg SS m. Laboratory analyses of the sludge comprised: sludge concentrati...

The effects of electro-stimulation on heterotrophic denitrifying bacterial activity and nitrate removal were investigated using a bench-scale bio-electrochemical reactor in this study. Results showed that the maximum nitrate removal efficiency was 100% at the optimum current density of 200mA/m(2), at which low nitrite production and high ATP aggregate level were obtained. The activity of denitr...

A study was performed to investigate the impact of turbulent heterogeneity on aggregation and breakup in a flocculation reactor. The influence of the average characteristic velocity gradient (G), particle concentration, and coagulation mechanism on the flocculation performance was also investigated. Experiments were performed in a bench-scale reactor with a low-shear axial-flow impeller using a...

A bench-scale auger reactor was designed for use as a laboratory-scale fast pyrolyzer for producing bio-oil from Japanese cedar. An analytical pyrolysis method was performed simultaneously to determine the distribution of pyrolysis products. The pyrolysis temperature was found to have the greatest influence on the bio-oil characteristics; bio-oil yields increased as the pyrolysis temperature in...

All bioreactor configurations are affected by mixing and transport phenomena and consequently the bioreactor’s hydraulics governs the reactor’s configurations as well as performance. For instance, to provide good conditions for substrate transport to, and from, the microbial aggregates, an even mixing pattern at the macro-level is desirable. However, the available data that either describe UASB...

a computational fluid dynamic (cfd) study of methanol (meoh) to dimethyl ether (dme) process in an adiabatic fixed-bed reactor is presented. one of the methods of industrial dme production is the catalytic dehydration of meoh. kinetic model was derived based on bercic rate. the parameters of this equation for a specific catalyst were tuned by solving a one-dimensional homogenous model using mat...