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Effect of Zinc on the Suspended Growth Biological Wastewater Treatment (부유 성장식 생물학적 폐수처리에 미치는 아연의 영향)

  • Seo, Jeong-Beom;Hwang, Chang-Min
    • Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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    • v.37 no.4
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    • pp.228-233
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    • 2015
  • This study was performed to examine the effect of zinc on the biodegradability, nitrification, denitrification and oxygen uptake rate (OUR) using batch reactor and continuous flow stirred tank reactor (CSTR) of anaerobic/anoxic/oxic ($A^2/O$). The results of this study can be summarized as follows. In the case of the effect of zinc on organic treatment, zinc had no effect up to 12 mg/L with batch reactor but biodegradability was lowered when it was above 3.0 mg/L with CSTR. Concerning the case on nitrification and removal of nitrogen, nitrification rate was lowered when zinc was above 6.0 mg/L with batch reactor and removal rate of nitrogen was lowered when zinc was above 3.0 mg/L with CSTR. Removal rate of phosphorus was lowered when it was above 6.0 mg/L zinc with batch reactor and above 3.0 mg/L zinc with CSTR. In the case of OUR, it decreased as microbial activity was affected when zinc concentration was above 3.0 mg/L in CSTR.

Biodegradation Characteristics of Swine and Cattle Using Anaerobic Batch Tests (혐기성 회분식 실험을 통한 돈 및 우육의 분해 특성)

  • Kim, Jung-Kwang;Choi, Jae-Min;Kim, Jae-Yoon;Park, Joon-Kyu;Lee, Chae-Young
    • Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.49-56
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    • 2014
  • This study was conducted to investigate the biodegradation characteristics of swine and cattle using anaerobic batch tests. The results showed that the maximum methane production rate($MPR_{max}$) and acclimation time(AT) of swine were 46.7 mL $CH_4/g$ VS.d and 17.2 d, respectively. The $MPR_{max}$ and AT of cattle were 56.5% and 24.0% lower than those of swine. The characteristics of anaerobic biodegradation varied with livestock species but $MPR_{max}$ and AT increased linearly with the content of lipid. The $MPR_{max}$ and AT of cattle with content of lipid were more sensitive than those of swine.

Anaerobic Biodegradability of Leachates Generated at Landfill Age (매립년한에 따른 침출수의 혐기성 생분해 특성)

  • Shin, Hang-Sik;Lee, Chae-young;Kang, Ki-hoon
    • Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.90-96
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    • 2000
  • The composition of leachates varies depending on the waste characteristics, landfill age and landfilling method. Generally, leachates contain high dissolved organic substance and ammonia nitrogen whereas phosphorus concentration was very low. Leachate A produced from young landfill is characterized by high BOD5/COD ratio (0.8) whereas leachate C produced from old landfill has lower BOD5/COD ratio (0.1). Maximum biochemical methane potential of leachate A, B (from medium landfill) and C were 271,106 and 4 ml CH4/g-COD, respectively. On the other hand, the maximum biodegradability of leachate A, B, and C were 75,30, and 1%, respectively. These results indicated that anaerobic treatment of leachate from young landfill was effective in removing organic pollutants. In case of leachate C, carbon might reside in the form of large molecular weight organic compounds such as lignins, humic acids and other polymerized compounds of soils, which are resistant to biodegradation. The lag-phase period increased with the increasing organic concentration in leachate. In case of leachate A of concentration greater than 25%, the lag-phase period increased sharply. This implied that the start-up period of anaerobic process using an unacclimated inoculum could be extended due to the higher concentration of leachate. This relatively long lag-phase is probably related to the fact that most of the inhibitory compounds have been diluted beyond their inhibitory concentrations of less than 50%. Furthermore, the ultimate methane yield and methane production rate decreased as leachate concentration increased. It was anticipated the potential inhibition was related with the steady-state inhibition as well as the initial shock load.

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Assessment of Methane Potential in Hydro-thermal Carbonization reaction of Organic Sludge Using Parallel First Order Kinetics (병열 1차 반응속도식을 이용한 유기성 슬러지 수열탄화 반응온도별 메탄생산퍼텐셜 평가)

  • Oh, Seung-Yong;Yoon, Young-Man
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.128-136
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    • 2016
  • BACKGROUND: Hydrothermal carbonization reaction is the thermo-chemical energy conversion technology for producing the solid fuel of high carbon density from organic wastes. The hydrothermal carbonization reaction is accompanied by the thermal hydrolysis reaction which converse particulate organic matters to soluble forms (hydro-thermal hydrolysate). Recently, hydrothermal carbonization is adopted as a pre-treatment technology to improve anaerobic digestion efficiency. This research was carried out to assess the effects of hydro-thermal reaction temperature on the methane potential and anaerobic biodegradability in the thermal hydrolysate of organic sludge generating from the wastewater treatment plant of poultry slaughterhouse .METHODS AND RESULTS: Wastewater treatment sludge cake of poultry slaughterhouse was treated in the different hydro-thermal reaction temperature of 170, 180, 190, 200, and 220℃. Theoretical and experimental methane potential for each hydro-thermal hydrolysate were measured. Then, the organic substance fractions of hydro-thermal hydrolysate were characterized by the optimization of the parallel first order kinetics model. The increase of hydro-thermal reaction temperature from 170℃ to 220℃ caused the enhancement of hydrolysis efficiency. And the methane potential showed the maximum value of 0.381 Nm3 kg-1-VSadded in the hydro-thermal reaction temperature of 190℃. Biodegradable volatile solid(VSB) content have accounted for 66.41% in 170℃, 72.70% in 180℃, 79.78% in 190℃, 67.05% in 200℃, and 70.31% in 220℃, respectively. The persistent VS content increased with hydro-thermal reaction temperature, which occupied 0.18% for 170℃, 2.96% for 180℃, 6.32% for 190℃, 17.52% for 200℃, and 20.55% for 220℃.CONCLUSION: Biodegradable volatile solid showed the highest amount in the hydro-thermal reaction temperature of 190℃, and then, the optimum hydro-thermal reaction temperature for organic sludge was assessed as 190℃ in the aspect of the methane production. The rise of hydro-thermal reaction temperature caused increase of persistent organic matter content.

Biochemical Methane Potential Analysis for Anaerobic Digestion of Giant Miscanthus (Miscanthus sacchariflorus) (거대억새(Miscanthus sacchariflorus)의 혐기소화를 위한 메탄생산 퍼텐셜 분석)

  • Yoo, Jung-Suk;Kim, Chang-Hyun;Yoon, Young-Man
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.29-35
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    • 2017
  • BACKGROUND: This study was carried out to assess a biochemical methane potential of giant miscanthus (Miscanthus sacchariflorus) which was a promising candidate energy crop due to a high biomass productivity, in order to utilize as a feedstock for the biogas production. METHODSANDRESULTS: Giant miscanthus was sampled the elapsing drying time of 6 months after harvesting. TS (Total Solid) and VS (Volatile Solid) contents were 94.7 and 90.8%. And CP (Crude Protein), EE (Ether Extracts), and CF (Crude Fiber) contents of giant miscanthus were 1.4, 0.46, and 46.12%, respectively. In the organic composition of giant miscanthus, the NDF (Neutral Detergent Fiber) representing cellulose, lignin, and hemicellulose contents showed 86.88%, and the ADF (Acid Detergent Fiber) representing cellulose and lignin contents was 62.91%. Elemental composition of giant miscanthus showed 47.75%, 6.44%, 41.00%, and 0.28% for C, H, O, and N, respectively, and then, theoretical methane potential was obtained to $0.502Nm^3kg^{-1}-VS_{added}$. Biochemical methane potential was assessed as the range of $0.154{\sim}0.241Nm^3kg^{-1}-VS_{added}$ resulting the lower organic biodegradability of 30.7~48.0%. CONCLUSION: Therefore the development of pretreatment technology of the giant miscanthus was needed for the improvement of anaerobic digestability.

EPerformance of high-rate anaerobic sequencing batch reactor treating sewage sludge and food waste (연속 회분식 혐기성 공정을 이용한 하수슬러지와 음식물쓰레기의 혼합소화 거동 특성)

  • Kim, Hyun-Woo;Han, Sun-Kee;Shin, Hang-Sik
    • Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.75-83
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    • 2004
  • Temperature-phased anaerobic digestion (TPAD), anaerobic sequencing batch reactor (ASBR), and co-digestion technologies were combined together in order to overcome low efficiencies of conventional anaerobic sewage sludge digestion processes. In the performance, TPAD-ASBR process showed high VS removal efficiency over 60% up to the organic loading rate (OLR) of 2.7 g VS/L/d. The first-stage of TPAD-ASBR and control system played a most significant role in VS destruction and methane production. Methane production rate (0.79 l $CH_4/L/d$) of the system was higher than that (0.59 l $CH_4/L/d$) of the control system. The substrate characteristics of the sewage sludge, such as low VS concentration (1.5%, w/w) and biodegradability, were properly improved by the addition of food waste as a co-substrate, leading to more efficient VS removal and methane production. With several track studies, it was revealed that the independent solid retention time (SRT) of those systems prevented untreated particles from outflowing and also, extended the retention time of the active biomass for further degradation. Consequently, it was confirmed that the sequencing batch operation of the TPAD process using co-substrate was a promising alternative for the recycling of sewage sludge with low VS content.

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A study on determining the optimum mixing ratio of carbon source for anaerobic treatment (혐기성처리를 위한 탄소원의 최적 혼합비율 결정에 관한 연구)

  • 김은호;장성호
    • Journal of environmental and Sanitary engineering
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.31-38
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    • 1999
  • The purpose of this study were to determine the optimum mixing ratio of sewage sludge and papermill sludge as carbon source required to SRB in treating abandoned mine drainage with natural purification wetland. If mixing sewage sludge/papermill sludge 2.0 SO42- reduced 46.2%, and then 30% in mixing ratio 0.5.Because sewage sludge was faster biodegradability than papermill sludge, effluent SCOD was 40mg/L in mixing ratio 0.5, and after that was all but regular. pH and ORP were almost neutral and -160mV, but after that was all but regular and it indicated that SRB activity was suitable. Fe removal rate was 60% in mixing ratio 2.0, and 54% in mixing ratio 0.5. In point of carbon source supply, It indicated that mixing ration 0.5 was considered as the most appropriate, because degradability of swewage sludge under short time was higher than that of papermill sludge.

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Evaluation of Biodegradation in an Aquifer Contaminated with Petroleum Hydrocarbon

  • 이지훈;이진용;이강근
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Soil and Groundwater Environment Conference
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    • 2001.04a
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    • pp.120-123
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    • 2001
  • To evaluate the biodegradability of contaminants in an aquifer, computer modeling with RT3D model (Clement, 1997) was used. The RT3D model simulates the biodegradation of organic contaminants using a number of aerobic and anaerobic electron acceptors. The RT3D model was applied to a well-studied petroleum hydrocarbon plume in a shallow unconfined aquifer in Uiwang, Korea. The results of this study demonstrate tile importance of biodegradation processes in the monitored natural attenuation and in reducing contaminant concentrations in a shallow aquifer. The modeling results tell that the amount of electron acceptors is the key factor affecting biodegradation of TEX, the petroleum hydrocarbon contaminant in shallow groundwater

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Disintegration of Flotation Scum in Food Wastewater Using Thermo-Alkaline Pretreatment (열-알칼리 전처리를 통한 음식물류 폐수 부상 스컴의 가용화)

  • Choi, Jae-Min;Lee, Chae-Young
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.71-78
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    • 2015
  • This study was performed to optimize the integrated thermal-alkali pre-treatment of flotation scum for the enhanced biodegradability. The optimum conditions of the integrated thermal-alkali pre-treatment were obtained using response surface methodology. The disintegration degree of carbohydrate (69.2%) and protein (57.3) were estimated under the optimum conditions. Although the optimum conditions were different, the disintegration degrees were similarly. A fermentative hydrogen batch test was conducted to evaluate the hydrogen production from scum with and/or without. The maximum hydrogen production from scum with pre-treatment was of 0.64 mol H2/mol hexoseadded, which about 1.4 times higher than without pre-treatment.

A Study on the Anaerobic Treatment of the Phenol-bearing Wastewater with two Sludge Blanket-Packed Bed Reactors in Series (2단의 슬러지-고정상 반응기에서 페놀 함유 폐수의 혐시성 처리에 관한 연구)

  • 정종식;안재동;박동일;신승훈;장인용
    • Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 1995
  • This study was carried to investigate the biodegradability of phenol in the wastewater with the two sludge blanket-packed bed reactor in series. Each reactor had a dimension of 0.09 m i.d. and 1.5 m height and consisted of two regions. The lower region was a sludge blanket of 0.5 m height and the upper region was a packed-bed of 1 m height. The packed bed region was charged with ceramic raschig rings of 10 mm i.d., 15 mm o.d. and 20 mm length. The reactors were operated at 35$\circ$C and the hydraulic retention time(HRT) was maintained 24 hours. The synthetic wastewater composed of glucose and phenol as major components was fed into the reactor in a continuous mode with incereasing phenol concentration. In addition, the nutrient trace metals($Na^+, Mg^{2+}, Ca^{2+}, PO_4^{3-}, NH_4^+, Co^{2+}, Fe^{2+}$ etc.) were added for growing anaerobes. The phenol concentration of the effluent, the overall gas production, the composition of product gas, the efficiency of COD reduction and the duration of acclimation period were measured to determine the performance of the anaerobic wastewater treatment system as the phenol concentration of the influent was increased from 600 to 2400 mg//l. Successfully stable biodegradation of phenol could be achieved with the anaerobic treatment system from 600 to 1, 800 mg/l of the influent phenol concentration. The upper level of influent phenol loading was high enough to meet most of the practical requirement. The duration of acclimation increased with the phenol loading. At steady state of the influent phenol concentration of 1800 mg/l, the treatment performance indicated the phenol reduction efficiency of 99%, the COD reduction efficiency of 99% and the gas production rate of 37 l/day. At the influent phenol concentration of 2400 mg/l, however, the operation of the treatment system was noted unstable. While the concentration of methane in biogas decreased with increasing the influent phenol loading, the carbon dioxide was increased. However, the concentration of hydrogen was varied negligibly. The concentration of methane was high enough to be used as a fuel. As a result, it is suggested that anaerobic phenol wastewater treament was economical in the sense of energy recovery and wastewater treatment.

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