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CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 157, Issue -, Pages 89-96Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2016.05.034
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Fungal biofilter; Hydrophobic VOCs; Biofilter modeling; Aerial mycelium; Fusarium solani
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- CONICYT-Chile (National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research), FONDECYT Project [1160220]
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The role of the aerial mycelium of the fungus Fusarium solani in the biodegradation of n-pentane was evaluated in a continuous fungal bioreactor (FB) to determine the contribution of the aerial (hyphae) and non-aerial (monolayer) fungal biomass. The experimental results showed that although the aerial biomass fraction represented only 25.9(+/- 3)% on a dry weight basis, it was responsible for 71.6(+/- 4)% of n-pentane removal. The FB attained a maximum elimination capacity (ECmax) of 680(+/- 30) g m(-3) h(-1) in the presence of fungal hyphae (which supported an interfacial area of 5.5(+/- 1.5) x 10(6) m(2) m(-3)). In addition, a mathematical model capable of describing n-pentane biodegradation by the filamentous fungus was also developed and validated against the experimental data. This model successfully predicted the influence of the aerial biomass fraction and its partition coefficient on the n-pentane removal, with EC decreasing from 680(+/- 30) g m(-3) h(-1) to values of 200(+/- 14) g m(-3) h(-1) when the dimensionless partition coefficient increased from 0.21(+/- 0.09) with aerial biomass to 0.88(+/- 0.06) without aerial biomass. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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