METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REMOVING MANGANESE FROM WATER

摘要

PCT No. PCT/AU92/00579 Sec. 371 Date May 9, 1994 Sec. 102(e) Date May 9, 1994 PCT Filed Oct. 26, 1992 PCT Pub. No. WO93/08128 PCT Pub. Date Apr. 29, 1993.A process for removal of manganese from water which includes the steps of (i) preparing a fluidized bed of particles (eg. magnetite) in a bioreactor capable of adsorbing a strongly adherent biofilm of microorganisms (e.g. pedomicrobium manganicum) metabolising manganese to provide an actively propagated biomass, and (ii) passing a stream of water through the fluidized bed where manganese is adsorbed by said biomass and is thus removed from the stream of water to provide a purified effluent of water exiting from the bioreactor.