Material Study for Porous Ceramic Filtration Applied on Ballast Water Treatment

2013 ◽  
Vol 721 ◽  
pp. 229-232
Author(s):  
Man Xia Zhang ◽  
Qing Xue ◽  
Xiao Jia Tang ◽  
Yi Min Zhu

For urgent requirement of onboard ballast water treatment, a combination method of wall-flow structure porous ceramic filtration (PCF) and UV radiation has been prompted and studied systematically in the lab. The paper mainly forcuses on the material selection for PCF in order to obtain a more effective, operational, durable and economic treatment. Hence four types of ceramic materials were compared, and a series of experiments were arranged to test alga removal efficiency, durability and differential pressure of the filters. A fuzzy comprehensive evaluation system was set up to assess filter performance from five aspects. The normalization results show that oxide ceramic wins carbide ceramic at three major fators: resistance, durability and cost.

2013 ◽  
Vol 448-453 ◽  
pp. 425-428
Author(s):  
Man Xia Zhang ◽  
Yan Ma ◽  
Cheng Yu Yuan ◽  
Yi Min Zhu

In light of urgent requirement of onboard ballast water treatment, this paper presents a laboratory study of an application of a novel wall-flow structure porous ceramic filter (PCF), with employment of UV light. It has been found that, for onboard treatment, the operational conditions may significantly affect the filter performance. To obtain optimal operational conditions and high filtration efficiencies on plankton, PCF was studied systematically though computational prediction and mathematical analysis. According to the strict criteria of International Maritime Organization (IMO) on ballast water treatment, high density of indicator algae were mixed into simulated ballast water as processing targets, and nearly 100% removal efficiencies are expected. Flow rate, algal density and algal size were chosen as three key operational conditions, was investigated on a 6L PCF. Response surface methodology (RSM) was used to evaluate the significance of the three factors on the response values of algae removal efficiencies.


2012 ◽  
Vol 610-613 ◽  
pp. 1505-1508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Man Xia Zhang ◽  
Xiao Jia Tang ◽  
Yi Min Zhu

Ballast water has been detected to be a great threat to marine ecosystem and human beings for threatens from biological invasion. Filtration is a kind of optimising primary method in ballast water treatment. However, so far no suitable filter has been applied considering effectiveness, economy, and resistance. A novel wall-flow structure porous ceramic filter (PCF) was adopted to combine with UV radiation. To evaluate the PCF, three types of indicator algae were filtered at different flow rates and initial alga densities. The results showed that up to 100% removal effciencies can be obtained on alga greater than 10µm and less than 50µm at the pointed alga density. The mechanism behind high removal efficiencies and high velocity were revealed as well.


Author(s):  
Manxia Zhang ◽  
Ningwei Xu ◽  
Chang li Li ◽  
Yatong Wang ◽  
Yimin Zhu

AbstractA combination system of micro-pore ceramic filtration and UV radiation was built up for ballast water treatment. Two treatment methods, single micro-pore ceramic filtration and micro-pore filtration and UV radiation, were studied in the research, respectively. Chlorella removal rates and total oceanic bacteria inactivation rates were measured at different flow rates (0.6 ~ 4.7 m


2017 ◽  
Vol 865 ◽  
pp. 169-174
Author(s):  
Man Xia Zhang ◽  
Yan Liu ◽  
Lei Si Ma ◽  
Mei Na Xie ◽  
Yi Min Zhu

In light of urgent requirement of onboard ballast water treatment, a novel wall-flow structure porous ceramic filter (PCF) has been applied with combination of UV light in our laboratory works. According to the strict criteria of International Maritime Organization (IMO) on ballast water treatment, removal efficiencies on indicator planktons should be almost 100% even at high initial densities. However, the treatment efficiencies of PCF may be greatly affected by operational conditions of the system. Hence response surface methodology (RSM) was used to evaluate the significance of the operational factors on algal removal efficiencies. Based on our previous works, flow rate, algal density and algal size were considered as three key conditional factors during PCF treatment. These three individual factors and interactive effects between each two facts were studied statistically by Minitab 15. Also, experimental studies were arranged according to full factorial design of a 6L PCF on simulated ballast water treatment at different flow rates, algal densities and algal sizes. By computational prediction and mathematical analysis, the operational conditions were optimized with first order derivation of predicted model. And by doing so, the utmost optimization was estimated to achieve higher performance of PCF system.


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