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For a membrane bio-reactor, it is possible to filter and separate activated sludge and effluent by head loss of centimeters, if non-woven fabric material is used as filtration media. However, if non-woven fabric material is used to thicken high-concentration sludge, excessive sludge attachment causes the rapid decrease of flux. Mesh with pore sizes of 100μm, 150μm, and 200μm allows for easy separation of attached sludge. This study examined the possibility of mesh as filtration media.
Existing close-flow filtration process, which requires maintaining sludge movement, makes it difficult to obtain high thickening rate. With a view of complementing this weakness, this study has made an experimental examination on how high-concentration sludge (about 3,000mg/L to 10,000mg/L) will be filtered and thickened when mesh module is submersed in the bio-reactor. Effluent flowed from the bottom of the bio-reactor by head loss of 65cm.
In case of pore size of 100μm, SS showed high recovery of 80% to 96%; therefore, it has been decided that mesh can be used as filtration media. Filtration lasted for more than 9 hours, until sludge with 9,000mg/L in MLSS concentration was thickened 9 times as dense. In the range from 3,610mg/L to 9,060mg/L in MLSS concentration, it was possible to obtain effluent with less than 2mg/L in MLSS concentration within 10 minutes.
