The use of oak chips and coconut fiber as biofilter media to remove vocs in rendering process.

Leszek Tymczyna; Anna Chmielowiec-Korzeniowska; Zbigniew Paluszak; Magadalena Dobrowolska; Marcin Banach; Jolanta Pulit

doi:10.18388/abp.2013_2052

The use of oak chips and coconut fiber as biofilter media to remove vocs in rendering process.

Leszek Tymczyna University of Life Sciences, Lublin, Poland.;
Anna Chmielowiec-Korzeniowska University of Life Sciences, Lublin, Poland.;
Zbigniew Paluszak University of Technology and Life Sciences, Bydgoszcz, Poland.;
Magadalena Dobrowolska University of Life Sciences, Lublin, Poland.;
Marcin Banach Cracow University of Technology, Kraków, Poland.;
Jolanta Pulit Cracow University of Technology, Kraków, Poland.;

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18388/abp.2013_2052

Abstract

The study evaluated the effectiveness of air biofiltration in rendering plants. The biofilter material comprised compost soil (40%) and peat (40%) mixed up with coconut fiber (medium A) and oak bark (medium B). During biofiltration average VOCs reduction reached 88.4% for medium A and 89.7% for medium B. A positive relationship of aldehyde reduction from material humidity (r = 0.502; α<0.05) was also noted. Other biomaterial parameters did not affect the treatment efficiency.

Issue

Vol. 60 No. 4 (2013)

Section

Articles

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