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Submerged aerated filters (SAFs) are an attractive technology in wastewater treatment with low capital costs and small footprint, but little was known on the refractory organic removal in this reactor. upflow SAFs filled with wool fleece media and Kaldnes was operated in the lab under well-controlled conditions. Experiments using E1, E2 and EE2 were employed to study the removal behaviour of SAFs. Oestrogen removal showed higher removal efficiency in the SAF with wool than that with Kaldnes. This was thought to be due to the fact that the adsorption characteristics of wool could lead to a better adsorption of hydrophobic pollutants in well mixed reactors, thus more microorganisms could accumulate for better removal behaviour.
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Hu, B., Wheatley, A., Yang, C. (2011). The Performance of SAF with Novel Media on Oestrogen Removal. In: Jin, D., Lin, S. (eds) Advances in Computer Science, Intelligent System and Environment. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 106. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23753-9_18
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