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Treatment Characteristics of Biological Aerated Filter Process Using the Upflow and Downflow System  

Lee, Yang-Kyoo (대림대학 토목환경과)
Kim, Gun-Hyub (SK건설)
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Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater / v.20, no.6, 2006 , pp. 837-848 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper presents the test results of biological aerated filtration(BAF) process to replace activated sludge process by enhancing treated effluent quality and reducing the costs. In BAF process both BOD and SS compounds in wastewater are degraded and removed by biological reaction and filtration. Upflow BAF with expanded polypropylene media and downflow BAF with ceramic media were used to investigate the effects of hydraulic and organic loads on effluent quality. As a result, in BAF processes which has different media, upflow BAF reactor shows 5% higher efficiency than downflow BAF and this phenomena caused by backwashing methods and operational conditions. The results of influence factors analyzed by Factor Analysis Method in BOD and SS treatment efficiency are the size of media, hight of media bed and type of media. The quantitative effects of media size are 5.73% in TBOD, 5.78% in SBOD and 7.65% in TSS, so we confirmed the main factor is media size.
Keywords
Biological Aerated Filter Process; Polypropylene; Ceramic; Factor Analysis;
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