• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.21-29
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• 2006

The treatment performance of ozonation and three types of advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) such as $O_3/H_2O_2$, $O_3/UV$, $O_3/H_2O_2/UV$ was experimentally investigated for the treatment of refractory synthetic dye wastewater. The removal efficiency of $COD_{cr}$, color and biodegradability ($BOD_5/COD_{cr}$) were relatively evaluated in each treatment unit with simulated dye wastewater. Optimal operational conditions of pH, temperature, dosage and circulation flow rate were also investigated. All suggested processes revealed an effectiveness for the removal of color within a short operational time, moreover, $O_3/H_2O_2/UV$ process showed the highest $COD_{cr}$ removal and biodegradability enhancement among proposed oxidation process.

• Clean Technology
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.222-227
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• 2007

The photocatalytic degradation of livestock wastewater has been investigated over $TiO_2$ photocatalysts irradiated with a ultraviolet (UV) light. The effect of operational parameters, i.e., distance, reaction area, concentration of suspended solids(SS), and column diameter on the degradation of livestock wastewater has been performed in lab-scale. The optimal conditions for livestock wastewater were determined: distance was 3 cm (less than 7 cm), reaction area was $3.6\;m^2$, SS concentration was 40 mg/L (less than 300 mg/L) and column diameter was 5 mm (less than 10 mm). Under the optimal conditions, COD, color and coliform removal efficiencies were approximately 49%, 53% and 100%, respectively. Non-biodegradable COD removal efficiency increased with 57% using by photocatalysis process. Therefore, it is shown that photocatalysis has an effect on degradation of non-biodegradable organic matter.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• 제35권9호
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• pp.660-665
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• 2013

To find out the major cause of scale formation in digestion facility, a componential analysis of scale and a digestion experiment for food wastewater were conducted. The analysis indicated that grease in food wastewater was closely connected to the organic component of scale. It is also indicated that grease-removed food wastewater showed 58.9% level compared to unprocessed one in crystal generation quantity in this study. The experiment provided insight that grease is one of the important causes of scale formation. Additionally, pre-removal of grease from food wastewater did not show negative effect on digestion gas production, as 68.7 L-gas/kg-COD for grease-removed food wastewater and 67.7 L-gas/kg-COD for unprocessed one.

• Journal of Environmental Science International
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.513-524
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• 1996

Laboratory investigation was conducted to evaluat the mixing effects on organic removal efficiency to treat low-strength synthetic wastewater using modified anaerobic - filter reactor combining anaerobic filter and upflow anaerobic sludge blanket. Using the modified process the low-strength wastewater like municipal sewage could be treated with 85% T-COD removal efficiency at hydraulic retention time of 6 hours. At the constant organic loading of 0.5 kg COD/m 3-day, the organic removal efficiency and effluent COD concentration are increased as influent COD concentration increased from 125 mg/l to 500 mg/l. Mixing effects on organic removal efficiency are evident and optimum mixing speed is found as 50RPM. Placing the granular sludge and media on which slime layer was pre-formed into the reactor seemed to be very effective In achieving short start-up period. Therefore, the steady state was achived after 4 weeks and 1 week based on T-COD and S-COD, respectively.

• Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.497-503
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• 2008

The Oxic-Settling-Anaerobic(OSA) process is a modified activated sludge processes for sludge reduction. It is evaluated that the sludge production in OSA process can decrease to 88% because of biomass decay and kinetic parameter($Y_H$ 0.237mgVSS/mgCOD, $b_H$ $0.195d^{-1}$) in anaerobic reactor, when compared with CAS process. However, it has problems caused by sludge reduction such as increase of nutrient loading. In case that the anoxic condition through the introduction of the intermittent aeration for the enhancement of nitrogen removal ability build up and enough rbCOD is suppled, maximum 88% of nitrogen is removed in the OSA process. If the OSA process optimizing the intermittent aeration cycle is applied to the separate sewage system with high rbCOD fraction, it can be converted to advanced process in terms of the sludge reduction and nitrogen removal, simultaneously.

• Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.75-82
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• 2008

Two UASB reactors were operated to investigate the effect of high concentration of sulfate on anaerobic digestion of propionate using an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor. An organic loading rate of $1.2kg\;COD/m^3{\cdot}d$ and a hydraulic retention time of 1.6 d were maintained during this study. In the absence of sulfate, the UASB reactor achieved about 95% removal of chemical oxygen demand whereas in the presence of $2,000\;SO_4^{2-}mg/L$, the COD removal rate decreased to 83% due probably to the inhibition of dissolved sulfide inhibition. Interactions between the methane producing bacteria (MPB) and sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB) were measured to investigate the competition between MPB and SRB. The MPB consumed average 58% of the available electron donors at $COD/SO_4^{2-}$ ratio of 1. Propionate was consumed mainly by SRB, converting sulfate into sulfide and suppressing the methane production. The specific methanogenic activity (SMA) using acetate and propionate increased as microorganism acclimated to the substrate.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.1733-1738
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• 2008

The treatment efficiency of rotating biological contactors (RBCs) for the high strength of dairy wastewater was investigated. Two different systems were conducted composing of a single RBC with tapered aeration reactors for the system A and a sequential RBCs following tapered aeration reactors for the system B. Experiments using dairy wastewater were conducted for 50 days period of time, in which hydraulic rates were maintained at the constant ratios of 346L per day and variable BOD concentrations were at the range from 1,358mg/L to 829mg/L, the $COD_{cr}$, concentration of the range were from 2,384mg/L to 1,329mg/L, the range of T-N concentrations was from 66mg/L to 38mg/L, and 50% of internal recycle and 50% of sludge return were performed. Results indicated that the removal efficiencies of the system B were higher than those of the system A. The removal efficiencies of system A for the BOD, $COD_{cr}$, T-N and T-P were 97.8%, 96.7%, 87.2% and 82%, respectively. The removal efficiencies of system B for the BOD, $COD_{cr}$, T-N and T-P were as of 98.5%, 98.5%, 91.3% and 89%.

• Analytical Science and Technology
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.436-443
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• 2005

A study of physical properties and their application using K-powdered activated carbon system followed powdered carbon dispersion was carried out at laboratory. scale. Two types of K-powdered activated carbon for the dispersion have been used in this study to investigate the catalytic removal efficiency of pollutants from the wastewater. From the surface properties obtained for carbon samples treated with aqueous solutions containing potassium salts, main investigations were subjected to isotherm shape, SEM, EDX and surface functional groups. K-powdered activated carbons were dispersed to wastewater with pH variation to investigate the removal efficiency for the color, COD, T-N and T-P. From these removal results of the piggery waste using K-powdered activated carbon, satisfactory removal performance in the region of pH 6~8 was achieved. The excellent effects for the dispersion of the K-powdered activated carbon were proved by the above mentioned properties of the material for adsorption and trapping of organics, and catalytic effects.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 한국항해항만학회 2004년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.147-152
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• 2004

In Sequence Batch Reactor (SBR), the removal efficiencies if nutrient materials such as nitrogen and phosphate depend highly on quantity and quality of organic carbon source. Food waste thai contains abundant organic materials has been produced in ship. The applicability if anaerobically fermented if food waste (AFFW) as an external carbon source was examined in the lab-scale SBR process operated at $25^{\circ}C$. With the addition if AFFW increased, average removal efficiencies if $COD_cr$, T-N, T-P changed to $98.5\%,\;95\%,\;93\%$, respectively. Denitrification rate is 0.30g $NO_3-N/g\;VSS{\cdot}day$. In summary, it was suggested tint AFFW sould be used as an economical and effective carbon source for the biological nitrogen and phosphate removal.

• Proceedings of the Korean Environmental Sciences Society Conference
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• 한국환경과학회 2006년도 추계 학술발표회 발표논문집
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• pp.323-327
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• 2006

전류밀도를 $1.0\;A/dm^2{\ell}$로 고정시키고, 촉매로 사용된 소금의 농도를 전체 폐수량의 약 15%로 조절하여 접촉시간을 $0\;{\sim}\;120$ 분으로 조절하여 각각의 시간에서 $COD_{Mn}$ 농도 약 70mg/L의 합성폐수를 전기분해 처리하여 접촉시간 약 30분에서 약 25 mg/L로 제거 되었으며, 60분이 지난 후부터 약 12 mg/L로 제거되는 것을 확인 할 수 있었다. 접촉시간을 1 시간으로 고정시키고, 촉매로 사용된 소금의 농도를 전체 폐수량의 약 15%로 조절하여 전류밀도를 $0\;{\sim}\;2.0\;A/dm^2{\ell}$로 조절하여 각각의 전류밀도에서 $COD_{Mn}$의 농도변화 실험결과 전류밀도 약 1.0 $A/dm^2{\ell}$에서 약 9 mg/L로 제거가 가능한 것으로 조사 되었다. 접촉시간을 1 시간, 전류밀도를 $1.0A/dm^2{\ell}$로 고정시키고 사용된 소금의 농도를 전체 폐수량의 $0\;{\sim}\;30\;%$로 조절하여 각각의 촉매 첨가율에서 $COD_{Mn}$의 농도변화를 조사결과 촉매 첨가율 30 %에서 가장 높은 처리효율을 나타내었으며, 촉매의 첨가에 의한 전기분해 효율뿐만이 아니라 직류전원공급기에 전기적 부하 또한 감소되는 것을 확인 할 수 있었다.