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Cristina Alonso
Researcher at University of Cincinnati
Publications - 14
Citations - 492
Cristina Alonso is an academic researcher from University of Cincinnati. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biofilter & Backwashing. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 13 publications receiving 472 citations. Previous affiliations of Cristina Alonso include United States Environmental Protection Agency.
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Gas treatment in trickle-bed biofilters : Biomass, how much is enough ?
Cristina Alonso,Makram T. Suidan,George A. Sorial,Francis L. Smith,Pratim Biswas,P. J. Smith,Richard C. Brenner +6 more
TL;DR: A mathematical model is defined and validated that desribes the physical and biological processes occurring in a trickle-bed air biofilter for waste gas treatment and concludes that excessive accumulation of biomass in the reactor has a negative effect on contaminant removal efficiency.
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Dynamic mathematical model for the biodegradation of VOCs in a biofilter: Biomass accumulation study
TL;DR: Experimental results showed that as biomass accumulates in the reactor, the available area for the contaminant to diffuse into the biofilm decreases causing a drop in removal efficiency.
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Effect of Substrate Henry’s Constant on Biofilter Performance
Xueqing Zhu,Makram T. Suidan,Amy Pruden,Chunping Yang,Cristina Alonso,Byung J. Kim,Byung R. Kim +6 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that in a gas-phase aerobic biofilter, nitrate can serve both as a growth-controlling nutrient and as an electron acceptor in a biofilm for the respiration of VOCs with low Henry's constants.
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The effect of liquid phase on VOC removal in trickle-bed biofilters
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of water content on the removal of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in gas phase trickle-bed biofilters was analyzed and a mathematical model was then used to simulate the performance of the biofilter under these conditions and to support the conclusions obtained.
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Parameter estimation in biofilter systems
TL;DR: In this paper, the unknown parameters of a mathematical model of the biodegradation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in a gas phase trickle-bed biofilter, using experimental results from a two-reactor pilot-scale system treating the VOC diethyl ether, were estimated.