Table 2.
Methods of biological deodorization of selected odor-generating pollutants
| Pollutant | Deodorization method | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Ammonia | Biofilters, biotrickling, bioscrubbers | Hansen and Rindel 1992; Hvidtfeldt Rasmussen et al. 1994; Weckhuysen et al. 1994; Joshi et al. 2000; Liang et al. 2000; Malhautier et al. 2003; Hong and Park 2004; Pagans et al. 2005; Phillips 2007; Yu et al. 2007; Sakuma et al. 2008; Nisola et al. 2009; Jiang and Tay 2010; Moussavi et al. 2011; Lee et al. 2013; Martel et al. 2013; Yang et al. 2014; Kawase et al. 2014; Kafle et al. 2015 |
| Acetone | Biofilters | Lee et al. 2013 |
| Dichloromethane | Biofilters, biotrickling | Diks and Ottengraf 1991; Yu et al. 2006; Phillips 2007; Jianming et al. 2014 |
| Ethyl acetate | Biofilters, biotrickling | Hornos 2008; Sempere et al. 2009; Zare et al. 2012; Estrada et al. 2013 |
| Hydrogen sulfide | Biofilters, biotrickling, bioscrubbers | Kanagawa and Mikami 1989; Zhang et al. 1991; Shinabe et al. 1995; Dijkman 1995; Kraakman et al. 1997; Nishimura and Yoda 1997; Janssen et al. 2000; Hansen and Rindel 2000; Hartikainen et al. 2001; Cox and Deshusses 2001; Elias et al. 2002; Deshusse and Cox 2003; van Durme et al. 2002; Morgan-Sagastume et al. 2003; Kim and Deshusses 2004; Gabriel and Deshusses 2003; Oyarzun et al. 2003; Malhautier et al. 2003; Deshusses and Gabriel 2005; Potivichayanon et al. 2006; Phillips 2007; Datta and Allen 2005; Yu et al. 2007; Aroca et al. 2007; Rattanapan et al. 2009; Ramírez et al. 2009; Jie et al. 2010; Jiang and Tay 2010; Park et al. 2011; Chaiprapat et al. 2011; Omri et al. 2013; Montebello et al. 2012; Wongwutthi and Limpaseni 2012; Liang and Liang 2013; Liu et al. 2013; Alfonsín et al. 2015; Ahmed et al. 2014; Ben Jaber et al. 2014; Chouari et al. 2015; Kafle et al. 2015; Santos et al. 2015; Kasperczyk and Urbaniec 2015; Hernández et al. 2016 |
| Dimethyl sulfide | Biofilters | Kanagawa and Mikami 1989; Zhang et al. 1991; Smet et al. 1996; Smet et al. 1999; Shu and Chen 2008; Chung et al. 2010; Ben Jaber et al. 2014 |
| n-Butanol | Biofilters, biotrickling | Lee et al. 2013; Szulczynski et al. 2018; Schmidt and Anderson 2017 |
| Dimethyl disulfide | Biofilters | Kanagawa and Mikami 1989; Zhang et al. 1991; Cho et al. 1991; Ben Jaber et al. 2014; Bajpai 2014 |
| Methanethiol | Biofilters, biotrickling | Kanagawa and Mikami 1989; Lee and Shoda 1989; Zhang et al. 1991; Montebello et al. 2012; Ben Jaber et al. 2014; Lebrero et al. 2014; Hernández et al. 2016 |
| Ethanethiol | Biofilters | Kanagawa and Mikami 1989; Zhang et al. 1991; Ben Jaber et al. 2014 |
| Diethanolamine | Biofilters | Moshrefzadeh and Sabour 2014 |
| n-Hexane | Biofilters biotrickling | Zehraoui et al. 2013; Cheng et al. 2016 |
| Phenol | Biofilters | Zilli et al. 1996 |
| Styrene | Biofilters, biotrickling | Rene et al. 2009; Song et al. 2012; Runye et al. 2015; San-Valero et al. 2017; Gąszczak et al. 2018 |
| beta-Pinene | Biofilters | Viswanathan et al. 2013 |
| Limonene | Biofilters | Viswanathan et al. 2013 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | Biofilters | Devinny et al. 2009 |
| Toluene | Biofilters, biotrickling | Weber and Hartmans 1995; Hwang and Tang 1997; Delhoménie et al. 2001; García-Peña et al. 2001; Woertz et al. 2002; Cox & Deshusses 2000; Tresse et al. 2003; Sakuma et al. 2006; Phillips 2007; Bhaskaran et al. 2008; Hornos 2008; Yang et al. 2010; Dorado et al. 2012; Lebrero et al. 2012; Saucedo-Lucero et al. 2014 |
| Trichloroethylene | Biofilters | Devinny et al. 2009 |
| Xylene | Biofilters | Amin et al. 2014 |
| Carbon disulfide | Biotrickling | Lobo et al. 2000 |
| Chlorobenzene | Biotrickling | Yang et al. 2013 |
| Ethylbenzene | Biotrickling | Wang et al. 2014 |
| Formaldehyde | Biotrickling | Prado et al. 2006 |
| Methyl tert-butyl ether | Biotrickling | Fortin and Deshusses 1999 |