Kinetics of perchlorate biodegradation in upflow packed bed bioreactor

Abstract

Perchlorate is one of the highly toxic inorganic compound present in the environment as natural deposits and as a man made source Significant methods of treating perchlorate compounds are physical chemical and biological The physical and chemical methods are mere removal methods which have a higher reaction rate however the biological method on the other hand is a very slow process in which perchlorate ions are degraded into less toxic substances such as oxygen and chloride This work focusses on combining physical and biological methods in order to effectively degrade perchlorate from water newline