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Research of the Toxic Estimation and Treatment Method of Wastewater Including Nickel  

Kim, Man-Soo (Environmental Technology Institute, Dae-Yang, Bio Tech Co., LTD)
Hwang, Hwan-Min (Department of Environmental Engineering, Kangwon National University)
Park, Jong-Woon (Environmental Technology Institute, Dae-Yang, Bio Tech Co., LTD)
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Abstract
This study was performed to evaluate the toxicity and seek the control method of the wastewater in which nickel (Ni) was included into an industrial wastewater treatment plant. Nickel concentration of the wastewater, of which samples were taken every hour during 24hours, were various from 0.33 to 116.0 mg/L, with 24.0 mg/L of the average concentration. IC50 values against nitrosomonas and nitorbactor, a toxic level against bacteria which could inhibit 50% of nitrification bacteria in the wastewater, are 5.5 and 4.9 mg/L respectively. Nickel in this industrial wastewater can inhibit the 50% of nitrification bacteria even after diluting this wastewater 5 times. Also, this research, which reduced the nickel concentraion, forming nickel hydroxide compounds by increasing pH of the wastewater, shows that nickel concentraion can be obtained under 1.7 mg/L at pH 11 and 0.6 mg/L at pH 12. Consequently, the result of this study is that the nitrification efficiencies can be obtained from 83.8 to 99.4% with 97.6% of the average in the biological treatment after removing nickel in the wastewater by increasing the pH above 11~12, which is forming the nickel hydroxide compounds.
Keywords
Nickel; Toxicity; Chemical precipitation; Nitrification; Denitrification;
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