The syudy of reaction kinetics in the thermophilic aerobic digestion process of piggery wastewater

축산폐수의 고온호기성 소화공정에서의 반응동력학 연구

  • Published : 2007.11.29

Abstract

The piggery wastewater is the major source of the water pollution problem in the rural area. The treatment alternatives for piggery wastewater are limited by the characteristics of both high organic and nitrogen(N) content. In order to investigate an efficient N removal system, the thermophilic aerobic digestion process was examined. The experiment was investigated organic and nitrogen removal efficiency at various HRTs and air supply volume. The results of semi-continuous experiment indicated that a higher removal of the soluble portion of COD was achieved with the longer HRTs. However, the inert portion of COD in piggery wastewater was not much changed by thermophilic aerobic digestion. In addition, with the higher HRT of 3 days, up to 79% of NH4-N removal efficiency was achieved. Lower the HRTs, a decrease of NH4-N removal was founds. The gas samples from the lab reactor were analyzed along with the N content in influent and effluent. The N2O formation in our system indicates a novel aerobic deammonification process occurred during the thermophilic aerobic digestion. Both N02 and N03 were not presented in the effluent of thermophilic aerobic digester. With the HRT of 3 days, 36.4% of influent N(or 57.5% removal N) was aerobically converted to N2O gas. The ammonium conversion to N2O gas significantly decrease to 4.5% at low HRT of .05 day..

축산폐수는 유기물 및 질소분의 농도가 높아 발생량에 비해 오염 부하량이 큰 폐수이다. 따라서 본 실험에서는 축산폐수에 고온호기성소화공정을 적용하여 고농도의 질소분의 제거효율을 조사해 보았다. 실험은 체류시간과 공기주입량을 변화시켜가며 수행하였다. 반연속식으로 운전된 본 실험 결과 높은 SCOD 제거효율을 얻을 수 있었다. 반면 TCOD의 경우 SCOD보다는 적은 제거율을 나타내었다. 질소분의 제거의 경우 HRT 3 days일 때 79%의 NH4-N이 제거되었으며, 체류시간이 감소하면서 그 제거량도 줄어드는 것으로 나타났다. 실험기간 중 수행된 가스분석에 있어서 유입된 질소분 중 일부가 N2O gas로 전환됨을 발견하였으며, 따라서 생물학적 탈암모니아가 일어남을 알 수 있었다. 실험기간 중 반응조 내에 NO2 및 NO3는 존재하지 않는 것으로 나타났다. HRT 3 days의 경우 유입된 질소 중 213.4%가 N20 gas로 전환되었으며, HRT 0.5 day 의 경우 4.5% 가 N2O gas로 변환되어 체류시간이 감소할수록 생물학적인 N2O gas 전환량이 줄어드는 것으로 나타났다.

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