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Reuse of treated wastewater from steel industry by reverse osmosis membrane: flux decline study

  • Kwon, Tea-Ouk;Lee, Jae-Wook;Moon, Il-Shik
    • Proceedings of the Membrane Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2004.05a
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    • pp.199-202
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    • 2004
  • Membrane technology is widely employed as a means of producing various qualities of water from surface water, well water, brackish water and seawater. This is also used in industrial wastewater treatment and its recycling process. A large volume of wastewater is generated by the steel industry. Presently, the treated wastewater from the steel industry cannot be recycled, because some of its components cause either direct or indirect problems.(omitted)

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Application of RO Membrane Process for Reuse of MBR Effluent (MBR 유출수 재활용을 위한 RO 막분리 공정에 대한 연구)

  • Yoon, Hyun-Soo;Kim, Jong-Soo
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.1391-1398
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    • 2010
  • Reuse feasibility of MBR effluent of S Electronic Company's organic wastewater as a LCD process water was investigated by a $32m^3/d$ pilot-scale RO membrane process. The effects of operating pressure and permeate flux at constant 85% recovery of RO membrane process using MBR effluent were analyzed for transmembrane pressure and period for CIP by membrane fouling as well as rejection of TOC and conductivity. MBR effluent requires additional treatment to meet the LCD process water quality criteria of TOC<1 mg/L and conductivity<$100{\mu}S/cm$ which is stringent as compared with those of conventional reuse water quality criteria. The RO process operated at 85% recovery with stepwise increasing of permeate fluxes from 12.5 LMH to 22.0 LMH was able to meet LCD process water quality criteria. However, the transmembrane pressure increased and the period of CIP decreased as increasing permeability fluxes due to fouling of RO membrane. The optimum operational conditions of RO membrane process were permeate fluxes of 16.5~18.5 LMH with operating pressure of $6.7{\sim}12.4kgf/cm^2$ and CIP period of 20~25 days at constant 85% recovery.

Ammonia Adsorption Characteristic of Reusable PAN/zeolite Fibers Made by Electrospinning (전기방사로 제작된 재이용 가능한 PAN/제올라이트 섬유의 암모니아 흡착 특성)

  • Ro, Yeon Hee;Chung, Woo Jin;Chang, Soon Woong
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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    • v.39 no.4
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    • pp.281-288
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    • 2020
  • BACKGROUND: Generally, ammonia occurs from agricultural waste disposal. Ammonia is known as a harmful substance to the human body and has a bad influence such as eutrophication on the ecosystem. It is possible to remove the ammonia by ammonia adsorption method using natural zeolite, without external influence. However, due to the natural zeolite shape, it is hard to reuse. METHODS AND RESULTS: Electrospinning method can produce fiber with constant diameter. Moreover, electrospinning method has no limitation for selecting the material to make the fiber, and thus, it is valuable to reform the surface of adsorbent. In this study, reusable membrane was made by electrospinning method. The highest removal efficiency was shown from the membrane with 20% of zeolite included, and it has been verified that it is possible to reuse the membrane through chemical treatment. The highest ammonia removal efficiency was about 92.4%. CONCLUSION: In this study, ammonia adsorption characteristics of zeolite fibers were studied. Electrospinning method can produce zeolite fiber with even distribution. Ammonia can be removed efficiently from ion exchange ability of the natural zeolite. The result of adsorption isotherm indicated that both Freundlich model and Langmuir model provided the best fit for equilibrium data. And study on desorption has demonstrated that the ion exchange from zeolite was reversible when 0.01 M NaCl and KCl solution were used.

A Study on Flux Efficiency on Membrane for Water Reclamination according to Coagulations (하수처리수 재이용을 위한 막분리 공정시 응집조건에 따른 투과효율 변화에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, Jin-Hee;Jang, Sung-Ho;Choi, Young-Ik
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.767-773
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    • 2011
  • The objectives of this research are to investigate the proper coagulation conditions which are a type and doses of coagulants, mixing conditions (velocity gradients and mixing times), pH and so on through Jar-test, to evaluate the flux variations, permeate, backwashing according to characteristics of pretreatment of the wastewater by means of MF membranes for river maintenance water reuse. The effluent water from B-city K-sewage treatment plant are used for this research. Turbidity and suspended solids(SS) are 14.2 NTU and 10.4 mg/L respectively. This condition causes fouling for membrane process. The flux decline could be reduced when coagulation pretreatment was carried out. Optimal coagulations PAC which are commonly used in the sewage treatment plant was observed in this research. The results indicate that an optimal coagulation dose and pH are 80 ppm and pH of 7 respectively, but coagulation efficiency was lower at strong acid or strong base. Results showed that continuous and steady operations in membrane separation process by means of the effective removal of organic matter and turbidity with coagulation pretreatment of sewage secondary effluent were achieved.

Comparison of physical cleaning applied to chemical backwashing of wastewater reuse membrane system (하수재이용 막여과 공정에서 약품 역세에서의 물리세정 영향 비교 평가)

  • Lee, Chang-Ha;Kim, Young-Hoon;Jeon, Min-Jung;Lee, Yong-Soo;Jang, Am;Kim Hyung-Soo
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.981-987
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    • 2011
  • Biologically treated water contains a large quantity of organic matters and microorganisms which can cause various problems to membrane. The membrane fouling occurred by these reasons is hard to control by single physical cleaning. This study analyzes the efficiency of aeration with chemical backwashing and foulants removal during chemical backwashing. The cleaning efficiency improves when the chemical concentration is high and the contact time of chemical is long. Chemical backwashing with aeration shows exceptional cleaning efficiency which leads the physical cleaning is required during chemical backwashing since it forms flow inside the membrane submerged tank. From the foulants removal analysis, the particles such as turbidity and TOC removal rate increase when the aeration is applied. Dissolved matter of DOC and UV254 removal is dependent on higher chemical concentration. According to FTIR analysis, one of major foulants, the polysaccharide is controlled by the chemical backwashing with aeration condition.

Membrane engineering for environmental protection and sustainable industrial growth: Options for water and gas treatment

  • Brunetti, Adele;Macedonio, Francesca;Barbieri, Giuseppe;Drioli, Enrico
    • Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.307-328
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    • 2015
  • The increasing demand for materials, energy and products drives chemical engineers to propose new solutions everyday able to promote development while supporting sustainable industrial growth. Membrane engineering can offer significant assets to this development. Here, they are identified the most interesting aspects of membrane engineering in strategic industrial sectors such as water treatment, energy production and depletion and reuse of raw materials. The opportunity to integrate membrane units with innovative systems to exploit the potential advantages derived from their synergic uses is also emphasized. The analysis of the potentialities of these new technologies is supported by the introduction of process intensification metrics which provide an alternative and innovative point of view regarding the unit performance, highlighting important aspects characterizing the technology and not identified by the conventional analysis of the unit performance.

COD removal from industrial wastewater plants using reverse osmosis membrane

  • Madaeni, S.S.;Samieirad, S.
    • Membrane and Water Treatment
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    • v.1 no.4
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    • pp.273-282
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    • 2010
  • Treatment and reuse of industrial wastewater is becoming a major goal due to water scarcity. This may be carried out using membrane separation technology in general and reverse osmosis (RO) in particular. In the current study, polyamide (FT-30) membrane was employed for treatment of wastewater obtained from Faraman industrial zone based in Kermanshah (Iran). The effects of operating conditions such as transmembrane pressure, cross flow velocity, temperature and time on water flux and rejection of impurities including COD by the membrane were elucidated. The aim was an improvement in membrane performance. The results indicate that most of the chemical substances are removed from the wastewater. In particular COD removal was increased from 64 to around 100% as temperature increased from 15 to $45^{\circ}C$. The complete COD removal was obtained at transmembrane pressure of 20 bars and cross flow velocity of 1.5 m/s. The treated wastewater may be reused for various applications including makeup water for cooling towers.

Membrane technology for wastewater reuse (분리막을 이용한 산업폐수 재이용 기술)

  • Lee, C.;Kim, S.U.;Chun, H.D.;Kang, S.G.
    • Proceedings of the Membrane Society of Korea Conference
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    • 1997.10a
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    • pp.105-106
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    • 1997
  • 1. 서론 : 급속한 산업화에 따른 수자원 고갈과 계속되는 가뭄으로 인해 일부지역에서는 물부족 사태가 갈수록 심화되고 있다. 또한 정부에서는 폐수배출 허용 기준의 단계적 강화는 물론 수질총량규제를 실시하여 폐수방류량을 근본적으로 해결할 수 있는 기술이 요구되고 있는데 그 방안이 폐수를 처리하여 공업용수로 재이용함으로서 대체용수를 확보함과 동시에 폐수방류량을 줄여 공공수역의 오염부하량을 저감하는 것이다. (생략)

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Cleaner Production Option in a Food(Kimchi) Industry

  • Choo, Kwang-Ho;Lee, Chung-Hak
    • Korean Membrane Journal
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2000
  • In Kimchi (a salt-pickled and fermented food) manufacturing industry, the process of brining and rinsing the raw vegetable produces a vast amount of wastewater of high salinity. Instead of expensive and low-efficient conventional treatment system, brining wastewater reuse system was developed using hybrid chemical precipitation/microfiltration. In the microfiltration of chemically treated brining wastewater, comparison of flux, backwashing frequency and energy consumption was made between dead-end and crossflow filtration mode. The optimum location of neutralization step in this system was also discussed in connection with the microfiltration performance. The quality test of Kimchi prepared by the reuse system confirmed the new approach was successful in terms of water/raw material(salt) saving and wastewater reduction.

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