An overview of the integration of ozone systems in biological treatment steps

2007 ◽  
Vol 55 (12) ◽  
pp. 253-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Ried ◽  
J. Mielcke ◽  
A. Wieland ◽  
S. Schaefer ◽  
M. Sievers

Despite the well-known potential and performance of combined biological and ozonation processes for wastewater treatment, only few full-scale applications are published. Beside the synergistic effects of such process combination, which lead to oxidation of recalcitrant and inhibitory compounds or intermediates by enhancement of their biodegradability, the key for raising applicability is the improvement of the ozonation efficiency. An overview about the history and progress of full-scale applications, which deals with combined ozonation and biological treatment is given. Recently more than 40 applications exist, but many of them are not published. Therefore, a couple of selected not yet published applications have been mentioned in this paper. Landfill leachate and industrial wastewater treatment were mostly applicated, while treatment of municial wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluents are of increasing interest due to several advantages such as disinfection, decolourisation and removal of persistent dissolved organic carbon (DOC) for water re-use and groundwater recharge.

2001 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Tornes

Norway is a leading country on wastewater treatment comprising chemical precipitation processes. This is because Norwegian effluent standards to the North Sea have traditionally focused on phosphorus removal. In most cases, chemical treatment therefore has been considered to give lower investment and operating costs than biological treatment. Norwegian wastewater policy and management is based on the EU guidelines resulting from the EEA (European Economic Area) Agreement. According to the 1991 Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive, this will in most cases require secondary treatment. However, primary treatment can be accepted for plants larger than 10,000 PT with effluents to less sensitive coastal areas, if no negative environmental impacts can be proved. The main objective of the Regional Water, Sewerage and Waste Company (IVAR) is to comply with the prevailing effluent limits at lowest possible cost. During the past four years, IVAR has therefore undertaken comprehensive optimising of the precipitation process including full-scale experiments with different coagulant dosing control systems and different types of coagulants. IVAR also accomplished a feasibility study of introducing biological treatment as an alternative to chemical treatment. Under the prevailing frame conditions of discharge requirements and sludge deposit costs, it is not economically feasible to change to organic coagulants or biological treatment. This conclusion might have to be altered later resulting from the implementation of new EU regulations and increasing sludge deposit costs. This paper presents results from full-scale experiments, extracts from the feasibility study and a comparison of costs. Furthermore, the practical consequences of implementing the EU-guidelines are discussed.


2012 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 303-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tai-Ho Hu ◽  
Liang-Ming Whang ◽  
Pao-Wen Grace Liu ◽  
Yu-Ching Hung ◽  
Hung-Wei Chen ◽  
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2007 ◽  
Vol 56 (12) ◽  
pp. 119-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Blöcher

Industrial wastewater, especially from chemical and pharmaceutical production, often contains substances that need to be eliminated before being discharged into a biological treatment plant and following water bodies. This can be done within the production itself, in selected waste water streams or in a central treatment plant. Each of these approaches has certain advantages and disadvantages. Furthermore, a variety of wastewater treatment processes exist that can be applied at each stage, making it a challenging task to choose the best one in economic and ecological terms. In this work a general approach for that and examples from practice are discussed.


2014 ◽  
Vol 694 ◽  
pp. 396-405
Author(s):  
Xia Liu ◽  
Hong Wu Wang ◽  
Jin Hong Fan ◽  
Lu Ming Ma ◽  
Jing Xu

Fe/Cu bimetallic process was developed as a new industrial wastewater pretreatment method. It was difficult for an industrial park wastewater treatment plant in Shanghai to treat the wastewater with many refractory pollutants and match the improved discharge standards. The plant needed renovation and adopted Fe/Cu process as a core pretreatment technology. 60,000 tons of wastewater is treated in the plant every day and the average removal rate of COD, BOD, total phosphorous (TP) and color was 73%, 77%, 55% and 48% respectively before renovation. After renovation, the average removal rate of COD, BOD, total phosphorous (TP) and color was reached to 86%, 93%, 76% and 85%, respectively. The engineering practice shows that the removal rate of COD, color and TP in Fe/Cu tank reached 29.7%, 60% and 53.6%. The continuous operating data in two years shows that Fe/Cu process can effectively improve the biodegradability of wastewater and enhanced the subsequent biological treatment. The successful engineering practice indicts that the slag dropping quickly effectively avoid agglomeration and clogging of the Fe/Cu filler and the operating cost is very low.


1997 ◽  
Vol 36 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 321-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ute Austermann-Haun ◽  
Carl Franz Seyfried ◽  
Karl-Heinz Rosenwinkel

In Germany, there are currently 106 full-scale anaerobic treatment plants treating industrial wastewater. This paper describes the operational experiences of several industries (beet sugar, starch, pectin, brewery, distillery, vegetable) which undertake anaerobic wastewater treatment, with particular emphasis on specific wastewater problems and their solutions. Also presented are experiences of the handling of high nitrate concentrations, with the treatment of mixtures of industrial wastewater from different origins, with the chance to prevent the emergence of lime, magnesium ammonium phosphate (MAP) or aluminium precipitation. This paper deals with the first municipal wastewater treatment plant combined with a separate anaerobic stage to treat a wastewater mixture of several small factories. One particular asset of this plant is the construction of the acidification tank: using the “teapot effect” to enrich the solid material in the centre of the bottom, the solids can be taken from the bottom of the tank and pumped to the municipal sludge digester.


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