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Treatment Characteristics of Paper-mill Wastewater Using Pure Oxygen Activated Sludge Process (순산소 활성오니 공정을 이용한 제지폐수의 처리특성)

  • Kim, Sung Soon;Chung, Tai Hak
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.27-34
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    • 1999
  • An experimental study on improvement of the paper-mill wastewater treatment using the pure oxygen activated sludge process was conducted. The effects of hydraulic retention time(HRT) and BOD loading on organic removal efficiency were investigated. The BOD removal efficiencies were above 90% under all examined HRTs except for HRT of 3 hours. The increase of HRT from 3 hours to 6 hours, and to 12 hours significantly improved BOD and COD removal efficiencies, respectively. However, additional increase of HRT did not affect organic removal efficiency. F/M ratio change at fixed HRT did not affect organic removal efficiency. However, F/M ratio investigated in this study(0.11~1.98kgBOD/kgMLVSS/day) was 5 times greater in maximum than that of conventional activated sludge process, which implies that pure oxygen activated sludge process can treat wastewater with high organic strength. Under the same HRT, the volumetric BOD loading change cause no effect on organic removal efficiency also.

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Nutrient Removal Using Fermented Organic Acids Derived from the Primary Sludge in the Intermittent Aeration Activated Sludge Process

  • Weon, Seung-Yeon;Lee, Sang-Il;Lee, Chan-Won
    • Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.213-218
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    • 2011
  • The two-stage intermittent aeration activated sludge process (IAP) and dynamic-flow intermittent aeration activated sludge process (DFP) were investigated for the nutrient removal of domestic wastewater. Three sets of IAP and one set of DFP were operated. The fermented settled sludge taken from the primary settling tank was added to two IAP and one DFP as an external electron donor, with one IAP, in which an external carbon source was not added, as a control. All the systems were operated at a sludge retention time of 20 days and a hydraulic retention time of 12 hr. A Higher denitrification rate was observed with the fermented settled sludge for the denitrification compared to the process without the addition of the organic source. The result indicates that the fermented acid from the primary domestic sludge has been proved to be an excellent electron donor for denitrification and biological phosphorus removal with IAP and DFP in treating relatively low C/N ratio(Carbon / Nitrogen ratio) wastewater. Phosphate accumulating organisms have a capability of competing with denitrifiers in the presence of volatile organic acids under anoxic conditions.

Removal of Ammonia Nitrogen and Organics from Piggery Wastewater Using BACC Process-I. Comparison of Activated Sludge Process (BACC를 이용한 축산폐수의 암모니아성 질소 및 유기물의 제거 I. 활성슬러지 공정과의 비교)

  • 성기달;류원률;김인환;조무환
    • KSBB Journal
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.133-139
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    • 2001
  • To treat piggery wastewaters containing refractory compounds including nitrogen, biological treatments were investigated. In biological treatment, the removal efficiencies of organics and nitrogen by the activated sludge process and bioreactor using a BACC (Biological Activated Carbon Cartridge) media filled with granular activated carbon were examined. The results were as follows; in the biological process, when the approximate influent BOD concentration of 620 mg/L, through dilution, was treated by the activated sludge process, the process should be operated at a HRT of over 8 days to maintain an effluent BOD concentration of lower than 100 mg/L. In the treatment of piggery wastewater using a BACC bioreactor, when the HRT was 200 hours, the BOD, COD(sub)cr, and TKN removal efficiency of the effluent were 94, 75 and 64.3%, respectively. Comparing the BACC bioreactor with the activated sludge process, when the volumetric loading rate was 0.3 g BOD/L.day, the specific substrate removal rate of BOD was 0.14 g BOD removed/L.day in the activated sludge process which compared with 0.27 g BOD removed/L$.$day in the BACC bioreactor. The BACC bioreactor showed on average a 2-fold higher removal rate and was superior to the activated sludge process in wastewater treatment in terms of variations of loading time and high loading time. Therefore, the BACC process can effectively treat piggery wastewater containing high concentrations of nitrogen and organic compounds.

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Removal of Phosphate by Using Wasted Sludge of Seafood Processing Factory (수산물 가공 폐슬러지를 이용한 인산염인 제거)

  • Choi, Bong-Jong;Lee, Seung-Mok;Kim, Keun-Han
    • Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.23-28
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    • 1999
  • Phosphate removal through adsorbent, such as activated alumina, powdered aluminum oxide, flyash, blasted furnace slag and other materials, is commonly and widely practiced. The purpose of this study was to improve the removal efficiency of phosphorus in waste sludge earned at seafood processing factories. To investigate the utility and the feasibility of this sludge disposal process, experiment was carried out with a batch process. As a result, phosphate removal appears to increase with increasing adsorbent does, but shows no changes at an adsorbent does over 5g/l. With increasing ratios of initial phosphate concentration to adsorbent does, the amount of removed phosphate is increased while phosphate removal(%) is decreased. Wasted sludge, treated with zinc chloride chemically, represented a better efficiency than the untreated activated sludge and zinc chloride itself, when they reacted with phosphate solution.

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Release of Nutrients from Different Wasted Activated Sludges by Microwave Heating (다양한 활성 슬러지 공정에서 얻은 잉여 슬러지의 마이크로웨이브 가온과 영양물질의 방출)

  • Yang, Hoiweon;Ahn, Johwan;Kim, Jangho;Kim, Junghwan
    • Journal of Korea Society of Waste Management
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    • v.35 no.8
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    • pp.701-708
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    • 2018
  • Chemical batch tests were conducted to investigate the amount of nutrients that were released from the wasted activated sludge during microwave heating. For this study, three types of activated sludge were obtained from $A_2/O$, MLE and oxidation ditch (OD) processes. Polyphosphate-accumulating organisms in the activated sludge have a unique trait: they releases phosphate from the cell when they are exposed to high temperatures. The sludge obtained from the $A_2/O$ process released the largest amount of phosphate, followed by those from the MLE and OD processes. The release of phosphate increased with increasing polyphosphate content in the sludge under strongly alkaline or acidic conditions. Furthermore, ammonia and heavy metals were released with phosphorous. The largest amount of ammonia was observed from the sludge obtained from the MLE process. The release of heavy metals strongly depends on the pH conditions. Therefore, the chemical analysis results strongly suggest that both phosphorus and ammonia react with $Mg^{2+}$ or $Ca^{2+}$ to form metal complexes such as magnesium ammonium phosphate or hydroxyapatite under alkaline conditions.

Effects of Pressure and Dissolved Oxygen Concentration on the Activated Sludge (압력 및 용존산소 농도가 활성슬러지에 미치는 영향)

  • 양병수;신현무
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.259-267
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    • 1995
  • This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of pressure and dissolved oxygen concentration on the activated slut비e and to determine the optimum depth of deep shaft process. Some results from this study were summarized as follows. 1. It is considered that low sludge product in the activated sludge system maintaining high dissolved oxygen concentration is attributed to the increase of endogeneous respiration rate caused by the increase of aerobic zone in the sludge floe. 2. The increase of dissolved oxygen concentration does not affect to the increase of organic removal efficiency greatly and therefore the limiting factor is the substrate transfer into the inner part of floe. 3. The yield coefficient, Y is decreased in proportion to the increase of oxygen concentration. In this study, Y values arre ranged from 0.70 to 0.41 according to the variation of dissolved oxygen concentration from 18.0mg/$\ell$ to 258 mg/$\ell$. 4. The optimum depth of deep shaft process should be determined within the limits of non-toxicity to the microorganism and it is about loom in this study.

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Disintegration of Waste Activated Sludge by Acid Hydrolysis (산 가수분해에 의한 폐활성슬러지 분해)

  • Patchareeya Jaipakdee;Yeonghee Ahn
    • Journal of Life Science
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.82-90
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    • 2023
  • Biological process is used worldwide to treat domestic and industrial wastewater. The process generally uses a mixed microbial culture of sludge. The growth of microorganisms in the sludge produces excess sludge from the wastewater treatment process. Some of the excess sludge is recycled as inoculum for wastewater treatment, but the rest is removed as waste from the process. As wastewater production is increasing worldwide every year, the number of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is also in- creasing, resulting in the generation of large amount of waste sludge. The increasing amount of waste sludge from WWTPs has led to concerns about its management. Sludge disposal has been reported to account for 50~60% of the total operating costs of a WWTP. Sludge disintegration is a new technology that can minimize volume of waste sludge and recover useful components (e.g., P, N, and soluble organic compounds) from it. Various methods of sludge disintegration have been developed based on physical, chemical, and biological treatments or combinations of these. In this review, we focus on sludge disintegration by acid hydrolysis, which is less studied among sludge disintegration methods. Such information can be useful in the development and implementation of a new technology for better sludge treatment.

Fuzzy algorithm of Automatic control for dissolved oxygen in Activated sludge aeration tank (활성슬러지 폐수처리장 폭기조 DO제어를 위한 퍼지 제어 알고리즘 연구)

  • 손건태;김성덕;고주형
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.533-538
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    • 1999
  • Fuzzy algorithm of automatic control for dissolved oxygen(DO) concentration in the aeration tank of an activated sludge process is proposed. Among variables repirometry and air flowrate are selected as significant input factors and the relationship with DO is estimated using a multiple regression model. The DO concentration and the amount of repirometry are fuzzified and the fuzzy rule base are determined. Using the fuzzy algorithm, the change of amount of air flowrate are determined and the change of amount of DO is derived.

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Evaluation of Excess Sludge Reduction in the OSA Process using Kinetic Parameter and Mass Balance (동역학계수 및 물질수지를 이용한 OSA공정의 잉여슬러지 감량능 평가)

  • Nam, Duck-Hyun;Jang, Hyung-Suk;Ha, Kuem-Ryul;Kim, Joon-Kyu;Ju, Jae-Young;Jung, In-Ho;Park, Chul-Hwi
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.530-538
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    • 2009
  • The Oxic-Settling-Anaerobic (OSA) treatment process, a modified Conventional Activated Sludge (CAS) process, was developed for the purpose of sludge reduction. The insertion of a sludge holding tank into a sludge return line, an anaerobic reactor, forming an OSA process, may provide a cost-effective way of reducing excess sludge production during a process. The OSA process was evaluated for its sludge reduction ability by kinetic parameter and mass balance, with an observed excess sludge reduction of 63.5%, as $P_{X.VSS}$, compared with the conventional activated sludge process.

Soybean Wastewater Treatment by Activated Sludge Process (고농도 대두가공폐수의 처리를 위한 개선 활성슬러지법)

  • Cho, Kwon-Ik;Lee, Jeoung-Su;Lee, Tae-Kyoo;Kim, Jong-Hwa
    • Applied Biological Chemistry
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    • v.45 no.1
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    • pp.25-29
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    • 2002
  • The kernel of wastewater treatment by activated sludge is elimination of organic substances and maintenance of well-flocculated sludge sedimentation. By the conventional activated sludge treatment, the optimum F/M ratio of soybean wastewater treatment was 0.24 (kg-BOD/kg-MLVSS day) and sludge bulking was generated at 0.48 (kg-BOD/kg-MLVSS day). To improve the treatment capacity and operation quality in higher loading of soybean wastewater, influent pH was constantly controlled by 9.0 using NaOH as a coagulant agent. In this process, higher loading up to 2.88 (kg-BOD/kg-MLVSS day) was possible and SVI was maintained under 150 without bulking. This was equivalent to 7.2 times higher than maximum permissible load of the conventional activated sludge process.