Removal Efficiency of the Pollutants from Piggery Wastes with Activated Carbon Treated with Metal and Their Pilot Scale Design

  • Oh, Won-Chun (Department of Advanced Materials & Science Engineering, Hanseo University) ;
  • Park, Chong-Sung (Department of Environmental Engineering, Hanseo University) ;
  • Bae, Jang-Soon (Department of Industrial Chemistry, Dankook University) ;
  • Ko, Young-Shin (Division of Common Studies, Hanseo University)
  • Received : 2006.06.05
  • Accepted : 2006.09.04
  • Published : 2006.09.30

Abstract

The treatment of piggery wastes was carried out at pilot scale using a multilayered metal-activated carbon system followed by carbon bed filtration. The physicochemical properties were obtained from treated samples with aqueous solutions containing metallic ions such as $Ag^+$, $Cu^{2+}$, $Na^+$, $K^+$ and $Mn^{2+}$, which main obsevations are subjected to inspect surface properties, color removal properties by Uv/Vis and EDX. Multilayered metal-activated carbons were contacted with waste water to investigation of the simultaneous catalytic effect for the COD, BOD, T-N and T-P removal. The removal results for the piggery waste using multilayered metal-activated carbon bed was achieved the satisfactory removal performance under permitted values of Ministry of Environment of Korea. The high efficiency of the multilayered metal-activated carbon bed was determined by the performance of this material for trapping, catalytic effect and adsorption of organic solid particles.

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