Biofiltration project report; scale-up and design guide. Center for waste reduction technologies, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, New York, NY, (1999), 200 pages, softcover book plus CD-ROM, [ISBN: 0-8169-0801-X], U.S. list price: $395

✍ Scribed by Bennett, G. F.

• Publisher: American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 25 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0278-4491
• DOI: 10.1002/ep.670180404

✦ Synopsis

Biofiltration, if I am to judge that technology from the perspective of the number of papers being submitted to me as an e d i t o r, is a very "hot" topic. This fact is evidenced by the recent (Fall 1999) Special Issue of E n v i ronmental Pro g re s s w h e re i n all the papers dealt with that subject.

Originating in Europe, this technology migrated to the United States about forty years ago, where in 1957 a patent was issued for the soil bed concept to tre a t gaseous emissions. However, that paper was long after a 1923 literature citation of the use of biofiltration to treat H 2 S emissions from sewage treatment plants. Following these developments, the first systematic re s e a rch on the use of biofiltration in the U.S. was, not surprisingly, on H 2 S removal. A paper on this topic was published by Carlson and Leiser in 1966. This report/design guide has two major sections. The first section is an overview of the technology. Its six major sections are titled as follows: