6 Performance Evaluation of Fixed-Bed Hybrid Bioreactor Under
Synthetic Carbonaceous Wastewater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
6.1 Preparation of Synthetic Carbonaceous Wastewater . . . . . . . . . . . 89
6.2 Semi-batch Study in the Hybrid Bioreactor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
6.2.1
Objective and Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
6.2.2
Procedure of Semi-batch Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
6.3 Details of Continuous Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
6.3.1
Basic Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
6.3.2
Procedure for Continuous Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
6.4 Compatibility of Fixed-Bed Hybrid Bioreactor for the Treatment
of Synthetic Carbonaceous Wastewater Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . 94
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
7 Treatability Study of Municipal Wastewater in Fixed-Bed
Hybrid Bioreactor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
7.1 Criteria for Selection of Wastewater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
7.2 Modality of Treatment of Municipal Wastewater in the
Laboratory-Scale Reactor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
7.3 Description of Collection Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
7.4 Modality of Collection and Preservation Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
7.5 Characterization of Municipal Wastewater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
7.6 Acclimation of Biomass and Its Enrichment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
7.7 Description of Semi-batch Study with Municipal Wastewater . . . 101
7.7.1
Objective and Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
7.7.2
Procedure of Semi-batch Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
7.8 Description of Continuous Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
7.8.1
Basic Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
7.8.2
Procedure for Continuous Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
7.9 Compatibility of Fixed-Bed Hybrid Bioreactor for Municipal
Wastewater Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
8 Experimental Validation of the Model Developed and Process
Design of Fixed-Bed Hybrid Bioreactor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
8.1 Basic Consideration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
8.2 Methodology for Experimental Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
8.2.1
Determination of Kinetic Coefficients for Synthetic
Carbonaceous Wastewater Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
8.2.2
Determination of Kinetic Coefficients from
Semi-batch Study with Municipal Wastewater . . . . . . . 111
8.3 Plotting of Predicted and Observed COD Concentration . . . . . . . 113
8.4 Validation of Model Outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
8.4.1
Validation of the Model Output for Case 1
(Continuous Study with Synthetic Wastewater) . . . . . . 116
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