Assessment of high salinity wastewater treatment with dewatered alum sludge-aerobic membrane reactor

• Autorzy: Kang Wei , Cui Xiyu , Cui Yanrui , Bao Linlin , Ma Kaili

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DOI

10.2478/eces-2022-0001

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The discharge of wastewater containing both high salinity and high organic content without prior treatment is detrimental to aquatic life and water hygiene. In order to integrate the advantages of membrane treatment and biological treatment, and exert the phosphorus removal efficiency of dewatered alum sludge, in this study, an aerobic membrane reactor based on dehydrated alum sludge was used to treat mustard tuber wastewater with salinity of 6.8-7.3 % under the conditions of 30 °C, 20 kPa trans-membrane pressure (TMP) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) of 3300-3900 mg/L. Three replicate reactors were applied to assess the operational performance under different organic loading rate (OLR). The results showed that all reactors were effective in removing COD, ammonia nitrogen (NH4+-N) and soluble phosphate (SP) under the conditions of 30 °C and 20 kPa of TMP. Meanwhile, the effluent concentration of COD, NH4+-N and SP all increased while OLR was changed from 1.0 to 3.0 kg COD/m3/day, and the effluent COD and NH4+-N concentration except for SP could reach the B-level of Chinese “Wastewater quality standards for discharge to municipal sewers” when OLR was less than 3.0 kg COD/m3/day. This indicates that dewatered alum sludge-based aerobic membrane reactor is a promising bio-measure for treating high salinity wastewater.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

organic loading rate; biological treatment; membrane treatment; high salinity wastewater; transmembrane pressure

PL

obciążenie objętościowe; przetwarzanie biologiczne; wysokie zasolenie; ścieki; ciśnienie transmembranowe

• Wydawca: Towarzystwo Chemii i Inżynierii Ekologicznej
• Czasopismo: Ecological Chemistry and Engineering. S
• Rocznik: 2022
• Tom: Vol. 29, nr 1
• Strony: 77--86
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 44 poz., rys., tab., wykr.

Twórcy

autor

Kang Wei

• Key Laboratory of Yellow River and Huai River Water Environmental and Pollution Control, Ministry of Education, Henan Normal University, 453007, China

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1750-6799

autor

Cui Xiyu

• Key Laboratory of Yellow River and Huai River Water Environmental and Pollution Control, Ministry of Education, Henan Normal University, 453007, China

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9437-1360

autor

Cui Yanrui

• Key Laboratory of Yellow River and Huai River Water Environmental and Pollution Control, Ministry of Education, Henan Normal University, 453007, China

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2331-8527

autor

Bao Linlin

• Key Laboratory of Yellow River and Huai River Water Environmental and Pollution Control, Ministry of Education, Henan Normal University, 453007, China

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5730-8909

autor

Ma Kaili

• Key Laboratory of Yellow River and Huai River Water Environmental and Pollution Control, Ministry of Education, Henan Normal University, 453007, China

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4858-6429

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