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Performance of a submerged membrane bioreactor for wastewater mimicking fish meal processing effluent

  • Lopez, Guadalupe (Department of Chemical Engineering and Metallurgy, Universidad de Sonora) ;
  • Almendariz, Francisco J. (Department of Chemical Engineering and Metallurgy, Universidad de Sonora) ;
  • Heran, Marc (IEM, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, ENSCM) ;
  • Lesage, Geoffroy (IEM, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, ENSCM) ;
  • Perez, Sergio (Environmental Engineering Technology, Universidad Politecnica de Chiapas)
  • Received : 2017.05.09
  • Accepted : 2018.01.23
  • Published : 2018.07.25
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Abstract

The objective of this work was to analyze organic matter removal, nitrification, biomass growth and membrane fouling in a submerged flat-sheet membrane bioreactor, fed with synthetic wastewater, of similar composition to the effluents generated in a fish meal industry. After biomass acclimatization with saline conditions of 12 gNaCl/L and COD/N ratio of 15 in the bioreactor, results showed that the organic matter removal was higher than 90%, for all organic loading rates (0.8, 1, 1.33 and $2gCOD/L{\cdot}d$) and nitrogen loading rates (0.053, 0.067, 0.089 and $0.133gN/L{\cdot}d$) tested during the study. However, nitrification was only carried out with the lowest OLR ($0.8gCOD/L{\cdot}d$) and NLR ($0.053gN/L{\cdot}d$). An excessive concentration of organic matter in the wastewater appears as a limiting factor to this process' operating conditions, where nitrification values of 65% were reached, including nitrogen assimilation to produce biomass. The analysis of membrane fouling showed that the bio-cake formation at the membrane surface is the most impacting mechanism responsible of this phenomenon and it was demonstrated that organic and nitrogen loading rates variations affected membrane fouling rate.

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Supported by : National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT)

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