基本信息
内容简介
《大学环境教育丛书·环境生物技术:原理与应用(影印版)》适合作为高等院校环境类专业的教材,也可供环境、生物等领域的科技人员参考。
目录
1.1 The Cell
1.2 Taxonomy andPhylogeny
1.3 Prokaryotes
1.3.1 Bacteria
1.3.2 Archaea
1.4 Eukarya
1.4.1 Fungi
1.4.2 Algae
1.4.3 Protozoa
1.4.4 Other Multicellular Microorganisms
1.5 Viruses
1.6 Infectious Disease
1.7 Biochemistry
1.8 Enzymes
1.8.1 EnzymeReactivity
1.8.2 Regulating the Activity of Enzymes
1.9 EnergyCapture
1.9.1 Electron and Energy Carriers
1.9.2 Energy and Electronlnvestments
书摘
Fluidized beds offer reduced volumes, due to their high specific surface area. Liquid detention times can be as low as a few minutes. The size advantage of flu- idized beds generally is limited by the ability to transfer oxygen to the water and the biofilm. Thus, surface loads for fluidized beds may be somewhat lower than for the other biofilm systems. As a consequence, volumetric loads probably cannot be increased in direct proportion to the increase in specific surface area. However, the short liquid detention times of fluidized beds are particularly advantageous for aerobic treatment of low concentrations of contaminants, for which the oxygen demand is relatively low.
One operating problem that arises in some situations is bed stratification, which usually arises when the carrier particles are not sufficiently uniform in size. The smaller particles accumulate near the top and also experience a lower biofilm-detachment rate. Over time, these smaller particles accumulate more biofilm than do the larger particles, making them less dense, which increases their degree of fluidization. The problem is that the continued expansion of the stratified bed leads ultimately to entrainment of the carrier particle's in the effluent and recycle flows.Using a highly uniform medium most effectively prevents bed stratification. Other control measures include designing a conical section at the top of the reactor to allow light particles to settle; installing a mechanical shear device, such as a propeller mixer, to detach the excess biofilm from the small particles; or withdrawing carriers from the top of the bed for cleaning.
When the medium is uniform, the carrier particles do not stratify, but instead circulate throughout the bed height. This medium mixing can provide a perfor- mance advantage when the substrate flux is in or near the low-load region and the effluent recycle ratio is not large. Then, medium movement allows each biofilm particle to spend some time near the column inlet-where the substrate concentration is relatively high and biofilm growth occurs-and some time near the column outlet-where the substrate concentration is very low, but the already accumulated biofilm can continue removing substrate. Movement of the biofilm particles disconnects substrate utilization and biofilm accumulation at any particular location. Therefore, biofilm grown at a concentration well above Smin near the inlet can remove substrate to well below Smm near the outlet (Rittmann, 1982). In this way, a steady-state-biofilm process can sustain effluent concentrations substantially below Snun, as long as the medium mixes, while the substrate concentration changes across the reactor.
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