Staged and Unstaged moving bed biofilm reactors for the removalof conventional pollutants and xenobiotic trace chemicals - experimental assessment

The study investigate the benefit of reactor staging as optimization of tradional one stage configuration. The author aims to understand if staging allows the achievement of higher performances in terms of removal of conventional pollutants and xenobiotics. Staging has been investigated on an anoxic MBBR reactor on a lab scale both in continuous flow configuration and in batch mode