I'm planning to conduct an experiment using UASB reactors at thermophilic temperature conditions. However, I cannot find any thermophlic granules but only mesophilic.
Do you know any company, wastewater treatment plant or individual who can provide anaerobic thermophilic granules? The amount of granules I am referring to is max 10 Kg.
Dear Panagiotis,
You may try to contact the following profesors at School of Envionment Science and Engineering at Tsinghua Univerity, Beijing, P.R. China,
Wu Jing, Associate Professor,
Zuo Jian e, Professor
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Dear Panagiotis G. Kougias
see the following reference. It is good guide to know about granulation.
WASTE MANAGEMENT SERIES 6
BIOGRANULATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT
Joo-Hwa Tay, PhD, PE
Stephen Tiong-Lee Tay,† PhD
Yu Liu, PhD
Kuan-Yeow Show, PhD
Volodymyr Ivanov, PhD
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Copyright © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
Dear Doctor
Actually you can use mesophilic granules as seeding matter, acclimatization is a unique solution for your case.
you can increase temperature step by step 2 degree per week to avoid shock due to temperature
Dear Panagiotis,
You may try to contact the following profesors at School of Envionment Science and Engineering at Tsinghua Univerity, Beijing, P.R. China,
Wu Jing, Associate Professor,
Zuo Jian e, Professor
Maybe you can develop your own anaerobic thermophilic granules which contains indigenous microbes where you can optimize the condition base on your needs and location.
For the amount you need difilcimente find . You could make the adaptation of granular anaerobic sludge mesophilic to thermophilic . in a short space of time that is possible to be achieved.
You can use the mesophilic sludge as seed sludge, and then acclimated by gradually increasing the temperature to thermophilic conditions required
Simple adaptation of mesophilic granules will work. Just give it some time.
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