scholarly journals Determination of optimum operational conditions for the removal of 2-MIB from drinking water by peroxone process: a pilot-scale study

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 2339-2347
Author(s):  
M. Fakioglu ◽  
H. Gulhan ◽  
H. Ozgun ◽  
M. E. Ersahin ◽  
I. Ozturk
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Contact Time ◽  
Advanced Oxidation Process ◽  
Removal Rate ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Pilot Scale ◽  
Operational Conditions ◽  
Taste And Odor ◽  
Water Supply And Treatment

Abstract Taste and odor in drinking water are one of the main problems of the water supply and treatment sector. Peroxone is an effective advanced oxidation process, which combines ozone with hydrogen peroxide to create hydroxyl radicals that decompose organic compounds. 2-Methylisoborneol (2-MIB) is one of the significant taste and odor causing compounds, which can be removed with the peroxone process. In this study, removal of a 2-MIB compound by peroxone process was investigated in a pilot-scale treatment plant and optimum operational conditions were determined. For safety reasons, it is important that residual O3 and H2O2 concentrations in the water leaving the reactor should not exceed 0.1 and 0.5 mg/L, respectively. Results indicate that while dissolved ozone concentration was below the indicated limit for all experiments, concentrations over 0.5 mg/L residual H2O2 were observed during the experiments with an H2O2:O3 ratio of 0.5. This limit exceedance affected the decision on the ideal peroxone ratio along with the 2-MIB removal results. Therefore; optimum H2O2:O3 ratio was determined as 0.3. 2-MIB removal efficiency of 81% was achieved at the optimum H2O2:O3 ratio with a contact time of 15 min. According to the results, 2-MIB removal rate had a linear correlation with the contact time.

scholarly journals Effects of pre-ozonation and chemical coagulation on the removal of turbidity, color, TOC, and chlorophyll a from drinking water

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bahman Masoomi ◽  
Neamatollah Jaafarzadeh ◽  
Tayebeh Tabatabaie ◽  
Esmaeil Kouhgardi ◽  
Sahand Jorfi
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Treatment ◽  
Chlorophyll A ◽  
Contact Time ◽  
Removal Rate ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Drinking Water Treatment ◽  
Water Treatment Plant ◽  
Pilot Scale ◽  
Alkaline Ph

Background: Ozone can be used as a single technology or in combination with other processes to improve the coagulation- flocculation or biodegradability in order to remove pollutants in natural water treatment. Methods: In this study, the effects of pre-ozonation with coagulant substances on the quality parameters of drinking water were investigated using humic acid, kaolin, clay, and green algae in a pilot scale. This study was conducted under laboratory conditions (at both acidic and alkaline pH in different dosages of ozone and coagulant at ozone contact time with simulated water sample (5-20 minutes) in different scenarios). Results: The highest removal efficiency of parameters in the state of pre-ozonation alone and preozonation with a coagulant was observed at contact time of 20 minutes, ozone dosage of 5 g/h, coagulant dosage of 25 mg/L, at alkaline pH along with a decrease in temperature. So that, the average removal rate of turbidity, total organic carbon (TOC), color, and chlorophyll a in contact time of 20 minutes was 76.9%, 52.8%, 66.6%, and 85%, respectively. However, compared to ozonation under similar conditions, the reduction in turbidity, TOC, color, and chlorophyll a was 36.13%, 24.4%, 32.13%, and 79.6%, respectively. Also, it was revealed that pre-ozonation with coagulant could effectively improve the removal of parameters. Conclusion: However, since pre-ozonation can be effectively used to improve the coagulation efficacy in the drinking water treatment, the pre-ozonation combined with coagulation is proposed as an alternative to conventional coagulation to improve the process of drinking water treatment plant.

UV-advanced oxidation process for taste and odor removal – comparing low pressure and medium pressure UV for a full-scale installation in Korea

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Scheideler ◽  
Kyung-Hyuk Lee ◽  
Philipp Raichle ◽  
Taeyoung Choi ◽  
Hong Sung Dong
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Treatment ◽  
Advanced Oxidation Process ◽  
Oxidation Process ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Water Treatment Plant ◽  
Low Pressure ◽  
Pressure System ◽  
Medium Pressure ◽  
Taste And Odor

The Water Treatment Plant (WTP) located in South Korea is a 101,000 m³/d water treatment plant using flocculation/coagulation followed by sedimentation and sand filtration plus a final chlorination step to produce drinking water from a natural reservoir. The seasonal occurrence of taste and odor compounds were driving the need for an advanced treatment step. In 2010 the operator decided to carry out pilot tests to test the possibility of removing this compound with a low or medium pressure ultraviolet-based advanced oxidation process (AOP). The pilot test showed a significant lower electrical energy demand (EED) for the low pressure system (EED = 70 W/m³) compared to the medium pressure system (EED = 144 W/m³) to achieve a 0.5 LOG reduction of 2-methylisoborneol. The results of the pilot trials were the basis for the design of the full-scale system capable of treating up to 4,419 m³/h of drinking water using low pressure lamps.

scholarly journals Nitrogen-metabolising Microorganism Analysis in Rapid Sand Filters From Drinking Water Treatment Plant by Culturing and Metagenomics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qihui Gu ◽  
Jun Ma ◽  
Jumei Zhang ◽  
Weipeng Guo ◽  
Huiqing Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Treatment ◽  
Removal Rate ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Drinking Water Treatment ◽  
Water Treatment Plant ◽  
Amplicon Sequencing ◽  
Metabolic Model ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
N Removal

Abstract Sand filter (SFs) are common treatment processes for nitrogen pollutants removal in drinking water treatment plants (DWTPs). However, the mechanisms on the nitrogen-cycling role of SFs are still unclear. In this study, 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing was used to characterise the diversity and composition of the bacterial community in SFs from DWTPs. Additionally, metagenomics approach was used to determine the functional microorganisms involved in nitrogen cycle in SFs. Our results showed that Proteobacteria, Acidobacteria, Nitrospirae, and Chloroflexi dominated in SFs. Subsequently, 85 high-quality metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) were retrieved from metagenome datasets of selected SFs involving nitrification, assimilatory nitrogen reduction, and denitrification processes. Read mapping to reference genomes of Nitrospira and the phylogenetic tree of the ammonia monooxygenase subunit A gene, amoA, suggested that Nitrospira is abundantly found in SFs. Furthermore, according to their genetic content, a nitrogen metabolic model in SFs was proposed using representative MAGs and pure culture isolates. Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) showed that ammonia-oxidising bacteria (AOB) and archaea (AOA), and complete ammonia oxidisers (comammox) were ubiquitous in the SFs, with the abundance of comammox being higher than that of AOA and AOB. Moreover, we identified a bacterial strain with a high NO3-N removal rate as Pseudomonas sp., which could be applied in the bioremediation of micro-polluted drinking water sources. Our study provides insights into functional nitrogen-metabolising microbes in SFs of DWTPs.

scholarly journals Effectiveness of vertical subsurface wetlands for iron and manganese removal from wastewater in drinking water treatment plants

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-163
Author(s):  
Jader Martínez Girón ◽  
Jenny Vanessa Marín-Rivera ◽  
Mauricio Quintero-Angel
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Water Treatment ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Drinking Water Treatment ◽  
Water Treatment Plant ◽  
Pilot Scale ◽  
Treatment System ◽  
Water Treatment Plants ◽  
Significant Difference

Population growth and urbanization pose a greater pressure for the treatment of drinking water. Additionally, different treatment units, such as decanters and filters, accumulate high concentrations of iron (Fe) and manganese (Mn), which in many cases can be discharged into the environment without any treatment when maintenance is performed. Therefore, this paper evaluates the effectiveness of vertical subsurface wetlands for Fe and Mn removal from wastewater in drinking water treatment plants, taking a pilot scale wetland with an ascending gravel bed with two types of plants: C. esculenta and P. australis in El Hormiguero (Cali, Colombia), as an example. The pilot system had three upstream vertical wetlands, two of them planted and the third one without a plant used as a control. The wetlands were arranged in parallel and each formed by three gravel beds of different diameter. The results showed no significant difference for the percentage of removal in the three wetlands for turbidity (98 %), Fe (90 %), dissolved Fe (97 %) and Mn (98 %). The dissolved oxygen presented a significant difference between the planted wetlands and the control. C. esculenta had the highest concentration of Fe in the root with (103.5 ± 20.8) µg/g ; while P. australis had the highest average of Fe concentrations in leaves and stem with (45.7 ± 24) µg/g and (41.4 ± 9.1) µg/g, respectively. It is concluded that subsurface wetlands can be an interesting alternative for wastewater treatment in the maintenance of drinking water treatment plants. However, more research is needed for the use of vegetation or some technologies for the removal or reduction of the pollutant load in wetlands, since each drinking water treatment plant will require a treatment system for wastewater, which in turn requires a wastewater treatment system as well.

Using Pilot-Scale Investigations to Estimate the Remaining Geosmin and MIB Removal Capacity of Full-Scale GAC-Capped Drinking Water Filters

2006 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 296-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Souleymane Ndiongue ◽  
William B. Anderson ◽  
Abhay Tadwalkar ◽  
John Rudnickas ◽  
Margaret Lin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Contact Time ◽  
Drinking Water Treatment ◽  
Pilot Scale ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Removal Capacity ◽  
Treatment Facilities ◽  
The City ◽  
Water Filters ◽  
Pilot Tests

Abstract Pilot tests were conducted to investigate the removal of geosmin and 2-methylisoborneol (MIB) by new and semi-exhausted granular activated carbon (GAC) extracted from full-scale filters located in the City of Toronto's drinking water treatment facilities. Four pilot filters containing core-sampled GAC and new sand were fed with settled water from a full-scale plant and operated under conditions similar to those employed at full-scale. None of the pilot filters appeared to be capable of reducing geosmin and MIB concentrations to below the commonly cited threshold odour limits of 4 ng/L for geosmin and 9 ng/L for MIB at the influent levels tested. When operated at a 5-min empty bed contact time (EBCT) with geosmin influent concentrations in the range of about 70 to 110 ng/L, removals ranged from 10 to 38% in filters with 25 to 30 cm of used GAC. In the filter with 25 cm of new GAC, removal was 83%. When operated with a 7.5-min EBCT, the filter containing 95 cm of used bituminous GAC removed 78% of the geosmin present in the influent. For both geosmin and MIB, the effluent concentration and the amount removed increased as influent concentration increased, as was expected. In general, geosmin was better removed than MIB.

Adsorption of methylene blue using modified adsorbents from drinking water treatment sludge

2016 ◽  
Vol 74 (8) ◽  
pp. 1885-1898 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Nageeb Rashed ◽  
M. A. El-Daim El Taher ◽  
Somaya M. M. Fadlalla
Keyword(s):  
Methylene Blue ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Treatment ◽  
Contact Time ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Drinking Water Treatment ◽  
Solution Temperature ◽  
Isotherm Models ◽  
Physical Activation ◽  
Adsorbent Dosage

This study aims to explore the preparation and application of alum sludge (AS) and mud sludge (MS) from a drinking water treatment plant to remove methylene blue (MB) dye from aqueous solution. The sludge (MS and AS) was treated by chemical and physical activation to obtain new adsorbents. The adsorption experiments were carried out under different conditions of initial dye concentration (50–100 mg/L) adsorbent dosage (0.05–0.25 g), solution pH (3–9), temperature (20–60 °C) and contact time (20–90 min). Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction instruments were used for characterization of the developed adsorbents. The results show that sludge activated by nitric acid (0.25 M HNO3) and pyrolysis at 700 °C were the best chemically and physically activated adsorbents. The optimum adsorption conditions for the adsorption of MB are 100 ppm initial dye concentration, 1 hour contact time, 250 °C solution temperature, pH 7 and 0.25 g adsorbent dosage. Application of the Langmuir and Freundlich Isotherm models showed that adsorbents fitted the Langmuir model well. SEM studies indicated the porous structural aspects of sludge suitable for removing MB dye.

A Case Study on the Automatic Control of Chemical Dosing Processes for Full-Scale Drinking Water Treatment

2012 ◽  
Vol 209-211 ◽  
pp. 1981-1985 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Sheng Wang ◽  
Xing Peng Zhou ◽  
Xiao Ming Mo ◽  
Yi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Treatment ◽  
Automatic Control ◽  
Water Flow ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Drinking Water Treatment ◽  
Constant Attention ◽  
Operational Conditions ◽  
Quality Water

During drinking water treatment, the chemical dosing processes, such as coagulant dosing process, ozone dosing process and chlorine dosing process are usually manually operated based on the operator knowledge and experience. However, due to the variations of water quality, water flow and process operational conditions and characteristics of large time-delay and nonlinear for the chemical dosing processes, it is difficult to adjust the chemical dosages in time by operators to keep the treated water quality stable, especially during the periods of rapid and frequent variations of water quality, water flow and process operational conditions. Thus, the improvements of control methods for the chemical dosing processes are essential to the operation of drinking water treatment plants. The Xiangcheng Water Treatment Plant in Suzhou, China has been utilizing the automatic control for chemical dosing processes since February 2012. Automatic controllers are designed respectively for the coagulant dosing process, ozone dosing process and chlorine dosing process. After the implementation of automatic control, operators are not necessary to keep constant attention. In addition, due to the improvements of control accuracies for the chemical dosing processes, the chemical dosages are reduced on the premise of ensuring safe water. Thus, both of the human resource costs and material costs can be saved. The practical control results demonstrate the efficiencies of proposed methods.

Biosorption of Mn(II) by Immobilizing Dominant Bacteria on the Surface of Chitosan Cross-Linked GAC Beads

2013 ◽  
Vol 361-363 ◽  
pp. 793-796
Author(s):  
Yu Nan Gao ◽  
Rong Xin Zhang ◽  
Xiang Yu Tang ◽  
Xin Fu ◽  
Peng Cong
Keyword(s):  
Water Treatment ◽  
Dose Rate ◽  
Contact Time ◽  
Removal Rate ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Water Treatment Plant ◽  
Source Water ◽  
Static Test ◽  
Dominant Bacteria

A static test was applied to study the biosorption of Mn (II) by immobilized dominant bacteria on the surface of chitosan cross-linked GAC(CCG) beads. The Citrobacter sp. was selected from the source water of the Shenyang first water treatment plant. Citrobacter sp. was immobilized on the surface of chitosan cross-linked GAC beads successfully. Langmuir models were applied to describe the isotherms. The Mn (II) removal rate was evaluated by the different dose rate and different contact time of the CCG beads. Results showed the dominant bacteria immobilized on chitosan cross-linked GAC beads were favourable adsorbers.

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