Pilot-scale removal of pharmaceuticals in municipal wastewater: Comparison of granular and powdered activated carbon treatment at three wastewater treatment plants

2017 ◽  
Vol 193 ◽  
pp. 491-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Kårelid ◽  
Gen Larsson ◽  
Berndt Björlenius
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Activated Carbon ◽  
Municipal Wastewater ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Pilot Scale ◽  
Powdered Activated Carbon ◽  
Scale Removal ◽  
Carbon Treatment

Recirculation of powdered activated carbon for the adsorption of dyes in municipal wastewater treatment plants

1999 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Nicolet ◽  
U. Rott
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Activated Carbon ◽  
Municipal Wastewater ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Great Part ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Powdered Activated Carbon ◽  
Municipal Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants

The use and recirculation of powdered activated carbon (PAC) as an advanced treatment for colour removal in municipal wastewater treatment plants is presented. Studied wastewaters consist of domestic effluents with a high portion of dyehouse residual waters. The particularity of the treatment is that PAC is not disposed of before being recirculated several times. Therefore, it enables the use of a great part of the total adsorption capacity of the PAC. A positive side effect is that halogenated and refractory organic compounds, which are not degraded by micro-organisms in a conventional municipal wastewater treatment plant, are removed too. This paper describes results which were obtained in batch experiments and in a pilot plant during two years of observation, and concludes with advantages and drawbacks of this technology.

Fate of sex hormones in two pilot-scale municipal wastewater treatment plants: Conventional treatment

Chemosphere ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 66 (8) ◽  
pp. 1535-1544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mar Esperanza ◽  
Makram T. Suidan ◽  
Ruth Marfil-Vega ◽  
Cristina Gonzalez ◽  
George A. Sorial ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Sex Hormones ◽  
Conventional Treatment ◽  
Municipal Wastewater ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Pilot Scale ◽  
Municipal Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants

scholarly journals Innovative technologies in municipal wastewater treatment plants in Sweden to improve Baltic Sea water quality

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 00113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Józef Trela ◽  
Elżbieta Płaza
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Municipal Wastewater ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Sea Water ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Pilot Scale ◽  
Municipal Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Treatment Processes ◽  
Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants

The article presents new trends in the treatment of municipal wastewater in Sweden caused by the constantly increasing requirements for discharging pollutants into Baltic Sea waters. The development of new technologies for nitrogen removal, pharmaceutical residues removal and the possibility of using membrane processes in wastewater treatment is presented. The state of research on innovative wastewater treatment processes at the level of pilot-scale tests and their implementation in full technical scale has been described. These technologies can allow the application of new, economical and environmentally friendly wastewater treatment processes based on biological, chemical and physical methods. Swedish wastewater treatment plants are preparing to meet the new conditions required for discharged wastewater with a value of 6 mg N/L for total nitrogen and 0.2 mg P/L for total phosphorus. This requires large investments in the reconstruction of municipal wastewater treatment plants and the introduction of new treatment processes.

Microsieving in primary treatment: effect of chemical dosing

2016 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 438-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Väänänen ◽  
M. Cimbritz ◽  
J. la Cour Jansen
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Phosphorus Removal ◽  
Suspended Solids ◽  
Municipal Wastewater ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Pilot Scale ◽  
Primary Treatment ◽  
Municipal Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Chemically Enhanced Primary Treatment ◽  
Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants

Primary and chemically enhanced primary wastewater treatment with microsieving (disc or drum filtration) was studied at the large pilot scale at seven municipal wastewater treatment plants in Europe. Without chemical dosing, the reduction of suspended solids (SS) was (on average) 50% (20–65%). By introducing chemically enhanced primary treatment and dosing with cationic polymer only, SS removal could be controlled and increased to >80%. A maximum SS removal of >90% was achieved with a chemical dosing of >0.007 mg polymer/mg influent SS and 20 mg Al3+/L or 30 mg Fe3+/L. When comparing sieve pore sizes of 30–40 μm with 100 μm, the effluent SS was comparable, indicating that the larger sieve pore size could be used due to the higher loading capacity for the solids. Phosphorus removal was adjusted with the coagulant dose, and a removal of 95–97% was achieved. Moreover, microsieving offers favourable conditions for automated dosing control due to the low retention time in the filter.

scholarly journals Reuse of effluent discharged from tannery wastewater treatment plants by powdered activated carbon and ultrafiltration combined reverse osmosis system

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Am Jang ◽  
Jong-Tae Jung ◽  
Hayoung Kang ◽  
Hyung-Soo Kim ◽  
Jong-Oh Kim
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Activated Carbon ◽  
Reverse Osmosis ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Oxygen Demand ◽  
Powdered Activated Carbon ◽  
Tannery Wastewater ◽  
Combined System ◽  
Treatment Processes

We evaluate the applicability of a reverse osmosis (RO) system that combines powdered activated carbon (PAC) and ultrafiltration (UF) to treat the effluent discharged from tannery wastewater treatment plants. Conventional treatment processes such as neutralization, clariflocculation, and biological processes are used to clean the effluent before feeding to the PAC and UF combined RO system. The efficiency of the combined system was evaluated using the chemical oxygen demand Mn (CODMn), color, pH, turbidity, total nitrogen, total phosphate, and conductivity. The PAC was effective in greatly reducing the CODMn and color. The turbidity and silt density index of the UF permeate satisfied the water quality indices required for the RO feed. The RO system was constantly maintained at approximately 75% RO recovery, and the RO permeate satisfied the water quality requirements for reusing the processed water. Therefore, the PAC-UF combined RO system can be used to process effluent discharged from tannery wastewater treatment plants for reuse.

scholarly journals Sustainable Wastewater Treatment Using Electrocoagulation Process Coupled With Powdered Activated Carbon

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farooq Sher ◽  
Sania Zafar Iqbal ◽  
Tahir Rasheed ◽  
Kashif Hanif ◽  
Jasmina Sulejmanović ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Activated Carbon ◽  
Pilot Plant ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Thermal Analyses ◽  
Powdered Activated Carbon ◽  
Volume Index ◽  
Electrochemical Technique ◽  
Operational Parameters ◽  
Sedimentation Tank

Abstract In this research an electrochemical technique in combination with powdered activated carbon (PAC) for the removal of micropollutants by adsorption as an advanced stage purification step from effluents of pilot plant wastewater treatment plants (WWTP). The effluents of sedimentation tank comprised of wastewater plus PAC (WWPAC). The pilot plant mainly consists of two parts; the first one consists of electrocoagulation (EC) reactor and the second consists of electrophoretic deposition (EPD) discs and electroflotation (EF) setup. The electrocoagulation (EC) reactor is a fiber box consisting of two chambers and thirty four plates of one material (either Fe or Al) on the whole in one EC reactor while one cell has seventeen plates. Both types of electrodes have been tested with the outflow of sedimentation tank. The outflow from the sedimentation tank has been entered into the EC reactor for the determination of EC reactor efficacy for the successful accomplishment of EC process at the designed pilot plant for WW treatment. The effect of different operational parameters; PAC dosage (20 mg), electrode nature (Fe and Al), current density (0.34–2.02 A/m2) has been studied to find out the optimum conditions. Sludge volume index (SVI) of the sludge, thermogravimetric (TG), differential thermal analyses (DTA) and particle size distribution (PSD) of the flocs generated after the EC process has also been studied. The turbidity, pH and conductivity of effluents before and after EC treatment has also been carried out. This pilot plant research gave promising results for future work in advance wastewater treatment direction.

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