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Table 1 Compounds used in the experiment and their inlet concentrations

From: Structure and predictive functional profiling of microbial communities in two biotrickling filters treated with continuous/discontinuous waste gases

Stage

Days

Inlet concentration (mg/m3)

Toluene

Ethyl benzene

p-Xylene

m-Xylene

o-Xylene

Ia

1–36

160

100

100

130

90

37–60

160

100

50

60

50

IIb

61–90

160

100

50

60

50

  1. aBTF1 was operated in continuous mode, while BTF2 in discontinuous mode
  2. bOperation mode of each BTF oppositely switched