Showing papers by "Pedro J. J. Alvarez published in 1994"
TL;DR: Simulations with Monod’s equation, expressed in finite-difference form, were in reasonable agreement with the observed toluene degradation pattern in a denitrifying aquifer slurry, and illustrated the strong dependence of the degradation time on the initial active biomass concentration.
Abstract: Monod’s equation adequately described the kinetics of toluene degradation and biomass growth in denitrifying enrichments from a sandy aquifer. The cell yield was 0.6 g of cells per gram of toluene, and the Monod coefficients were \ik=0.28 g toluene/g cells/day and \IKs\N = 8.3 mg toluene/L. The specific first-order coefficient, k/\IKs\N, would be 0.033 L/mg/day. The estimated biokinetic parameters were validated in an independent kinetics experiment. Simulations with Monod’s equation, expressed in finite-difference form, were in reasonable agreement with the observed toluene degradation pattern in a denitrifying aquifer slurry, and illustrated the strong dependence of the degradation time on the initial active biomass concentration.
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