A comparative study of bacterial and fungal‐bacterial steady‐state stages of a biofilter in gaseous toluene removal: performance and microbial community

BACKGROUND Traditional biofilters can lack efficiency in removing hydrophobic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) due to their low gas‐to‐liquid phase transfer rates. The aim of this research was to construct a high‐performance biofilter for toluene removal, compare the degradation performance with that of a traditional biofilter and reveal the relationship between the microbial community and operational performance with different operational...