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Performance evaluation of a granular activated carbon-sequencing batch biofilm reactor pilot plant system used in treating real wastewater from recycled paper industry
- Source :
- Environmental Technology. 33:915-926
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2012.
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Abstract
- A pilot scale granular activated carbon-sequencing batch biofilm reactor with a capacity of 2.2 m3 was operated for over three months to evaluate its performance treating real recycled paper industry wastewater under different operational conditions. In this study, dissolved air floatation (DAF) and clarifier effluents were used as influent sources of the pilot plant. During the course of the study, the reactor was able to biodegrade the contaminants in the incoming recycled paper mill wastewater in terms of chemical oxygen demand (COD), adsorbable organic halides (AOX; specifically 2,4-dichlorophenol (2,4-DCP)) and ammoniacal nitrogen (NH3-N) removal efficiencies at varying hydraulic retention times (HRTs) of 1-3 days, aeration rates (ARs) of 2.1-3.4 m3/min and influent feed concentration of 40-950 mg COD/l. Percentages of COD, 2,4-DCP and NH3-N removals increased with increasing HRT, resulting in more than 90% COD, 2,4-DCP and NH3-N removals at HRT values above two days. Degradation of COD, 2,4-DCP and NH3-N were seriously affected by variation of ARs, which resulted in significant decrease of COD, 2,4-DCP and NH3-N removals by decreasing ARs from 3.4 m3/min to 2.1 m3/min, varying in the ranges of 24-80%, 6-96% and 5-42%, respectively. In comparison to the clarifier effluent, the treatment performance of DAF effluent, containing high COD concentration, resulted in a higher COD removal of 82%. The use of diluted DAF effluent did not improve significantly the COD removal. Higher NH3-N removal efficiency of almost 100% was observed during operation after maintenance shutdown compared to normal operation, even at the same HRT of one day due to the higher dissolved oxygen concentrations (1-7 mg/l), while no significant difference in COD removal efficiency was observed.
- Subjects :
- Biological Oxygen Demand Analysis
Paper
Waste management
Chemical oxygen demand
Industrial Waste
Pilot Projects
General Medicine
Pulp and paper industry
Clarifier
Bioreactors
Pilot plant
Waste Management
Wastewater
Biofilms
Charcoal
Environmental Chemistry
Environmental science
Recycling
Sewage treatment
Aeration
Ammoniacal nitrogen
Waste Management and Disposal
Effluent
Water Pollutants, Chemical
Water Science and Technology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1479487X and 09593330
- Volume :
- 33
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Environmental Technology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3ebca2d6cacdf29316c923985e9b2c7f