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The upflow anaerobic sludge bed (UASB) concept, first proposed by Hemens et al. (1962), has been developed and extensively promoted by the Lettinga school, and applied to a large variety of wastewaters (Lettinga et al. 1980, 1983). The UBF reactor used in this study hybridized the UASB reactor with a packing filter (Guiot and van den Berg 1984). These reactors are characterized by the ability to accumulate a large amount of biomass due to adhesion of bacterial cells to each other. In the UASB and UBF reactors, the upflow velocity will select for organisms which can adhere to each other to form well settling granules which can be several millimeters in diameter. The granules accumulate in the reactor and then are exposed to the continuous feeding which is injected into the bottom of the reactor.
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Guiot, S.R., MacLeod, F.A., Pauss, A. (1990). Thermodynamical and Microbiological Evidence of Trophic Microniches for Propionate Degradation in a Methanogenic Sludge-Bed Reactor. In: Bélaich, JP., Bruschi, M., Garcia, JL. (eds) Microbiology and Biochemistry of Strict Anaerobes Involved in Interspecies Hydrogen Transfer. Federation of European Microbiological Societies Symposium Series, vol 54. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0613-9_15
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