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An anaerobic fluidized bed reactor, using sepiolite as support, for the treatment of distillery wastewater was started-up using a stepped loading regime with addition of methanol. Six different steady states at hydraulic retention times between 0.5 and 2.48 days were studied achieving a COD removal efficiency of 70.5 to 88.6%.
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Balaguer, M.D., Vicent, M.T. & París, J.M. Anaerobic fluidized bed reactor with sepiolite as support for anaerobic treatment of vinasse. Biotechnol Lett 14, 433–438 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01021260
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