A previously presented microcolumn scale-up procedure is evaluated. Scale-up assumptions that involve equal capacities in microcolumns and field columns are studied in an effort to determine whether preloading activated carbon with a natural water significantly reduces the carbon's capacity for a target compound. The capacities observed in the column studies are compared with isotherms for distilled-deionized water, groundwater, and groundwater with preloaded carbon. Total organic carbon breakthrough in the field column is presented to explain capacity reductions. A simplified version of a mass transfer model and a more complex model are used to predict the pilot-column results. Includes 33 references, tables, figures.
| Edition : | Vol. 81 - No. 4 |
| File Size : | 1
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| Number of Pages : | 8 |
| Published : | 04/01/1989 |
