This study is on the biodegradability of the activated sludge, which used to biodegrade Linear Alkylbenzene Sulfonate(LAS), synthetic detergents and sufactants. The activated sludge in waste water treatment plant is used to the test of biodegradation of anionic surfactants and nonionic surfactants, but it have the periodic change of the biological propety to the lapse of the time. For the puropse of controlling and adjusting of the activated sludge in biodegradation test, we collected microorganisms from the sewage plant and the soil, and then, made the activated sludge in semicontinuous aeration chamber. From determined biodegradation data, and the degree of biodegradability to the LAS, we confirmd the standardized synthetic activated sludge which have more stable biodegradability than the sewage activated sludge. In continuous biodegradation test, LAS(dodecene-1) was biodegraded more than 99%, In 7days by the standardized activated sludge.

생물학적 폐수처리 공법중 활성 슬러시지 공법의 수학적 해법에 관한 연구는 Michaelis-Menton, Monod, Eckenfelder, McKinney 등에 의하여 개발되어왔다. 이들에 의해서 개발된 수학적 모델은 각기 연구되어 온 측면이 서로 다르고, 사용된 기호가 상이하기 때문에 사용자로 하여금 많은 혼란을 주고 있다. 본연구는 각기 수학적 모델을 이론적, 단편적으로 분석하고, 각기 모델에서 사용된 기호의 상호관계를 비교하여 각기모델을 통일시켜 사용자가 이해하기 쉽도록 노력하였다. 실제로 모형실험에는 Aeration Only Activated Sludge 공법을 채택하고 시료는 Glutamic acid 폐수로 행하였다. 실제로 처리하여 얻어진 결과치와 각기모델의 계산치를 1) 유기물제거속도 2) 슬럿지생산비 3) 유출수에 관리되지 않고 남은 유기물농도 4) 폭기조내 산소요구량에 대하여 비교 검토하였다. 본연구에서 시행한 운전결과와 그분석으로부터 McKinney와 Eckenfelder의 모델은 활성슬럿지공법의 생물학적 관리시설의 설계요소들을 모두 구할수 있으나 Michaelis-Menton과 Monod의 모델은 모든 요소들을 구할수 없다.

미세조류를 activated sludge와 co-culture시켜 N, P 처리효율을 향상시키는 시도가 활발하다. 이에 따라 co-cultrue 상태에서 미세조류의 활성을 평가하기 위한 method가 필요한데, 과거 대부분의 연구에서는 인공폐수성상을 제조 후, organic carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus 제거량을 통한 미세조류의 활성을 평가하였다. 그러나 위 방법으로는 미세조류의 활성도를 정확하게 정량적으로 측정하여 평가하기에는 한계가 있었다. 위문제점을 해결하기 위해 flow cytometry를 이용하여 미세조류와 activated sludge의 co-culture sample을 제조하여 cell counting 및 미세조류의 활성도를 정량적으로 평가 가능한 protocol을 개발하고자 했다. Flow cytometry 란 장치 내에 존재하는 가느다란 관에서 고속으로 흐르는 세포에 레이저 광을 조사하여 각각의 cell에서 발생되는 반사, 산란광을 순간적으로 측정하여 cell을 선별, 수집하는 기능을 갖는 장치를 말한다. 대부분의 cell live, dead 활성도 평가 논문이 flow cytometry로 측정한 data가 활발히 이용되고 있다. 미세조류와 activated sludge cell의 가장 큰 차이점은 cell 내에 chlorophyll 의 포함 여부이며, 위 차이점을 이용하여 flow cytometry를 이용해 cell을 구별했다. Chlorophyll에 630nm 이상의 빛을 조사하게 되면 excited state가 되고, excited electron이 낮은 전위로 이동할 때 fluorescence를 방출한다. 이를 flow cytometry의 fluorescence detector가 인지하여 상대적으로 낮은 fluorescence를 가지는 activated sludge와 높은 fluorescence를 가지는 미세조류를 구분하고, cell membrane이 손상된 dead cell 만을 염색하는 SYTOX Green 염색시약을 sample에 주입하여 live, dead cell을 구별하고 활성도를 평가하는 것이 가능함을 확인하였다.

하수슬러지의 발생량은 꾸준히 증가하고 있으며, 하수슬러지의 해양투기 금지로 인해 대체 처리 방안들이 요구되고 있다. 다양한 하수 슬러지 처리 방안들 중, 하수 슬러지를 이용한 활성탄의 제조는 슬러지를 폐기가 아닌 재이용하는 방안으로 제기되고 있다. 활성탄은 탄소 성분을 이용하여 제조되므로, 하수 슬러지를 이용하여 활성탄을 제조하는 것도 가능하다. 기존의 대기오염제어설비에서 쉽게 제거되지 않는 원소 수은은 활성탄 흡착을 통해 제거될 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 국내 하수처리장에서 발생한 건조슬러지를 이용하여 다양한 물리적 특성을 지닌 활성탄을 제조하였고, 수은 흡착 능력을 평가하였다. 그리고 다른 원료에서 제조된 활성탄과 수은 흡착 결과를 서로 비교하였다.

하수슬러지의 발생량은 산업발달 및 인구증가로 꾸준히 증가하고 있으나, 하수슬러지의 해양투기 금지로 대체 할 수 있는 새로운 처리 방법이 요구되고 있다. 특히, 최근에는 건조슬러지를 재이용하는 다양한 방안들이 제기되고 있으며, 그 중 활성탄을 제조하여 이용하는 방법이 있다. 활성탄은 일반적으로 석탄이나 목재와 같은 탄소질 물질을 이용하여 제조된다. 또한 활성탄의 제조는 탄화와 활성화 공정으로 이루어지며, 탄화와 활성화 공정의 인자들의 변화를 통해 활성탄의 특성이 달라진다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 국내 건조 하수처리장에서 발생한 건조슬러지를 이용하여 활성탄을 제조하였다. 탄화시간, 탄화온도, 활성화시간, 활성화온도, 수증기 주입량과 같은 여러 인자들의 변화에 따른 활성탄의 비표면적, 기공분포도의 분석을 통해 활성탄의 최적조건을 도출하여 활성탄을 제조하고자 하였다.

In this study, the recycling water that produced during remicon manufacturing was activated by desulfurization gypsum, and then mortar with activated-sludge was made. As a result, possibility of activated-sludge in remicon was verified via flow and compressive strength test.

Domestic sewerage treatment plant is operated by activated sludge method and its modified method by using microorganism. In most cases, a method of using microorganism is directly controlled by the operator based on individual judgment through factors of DO, pH and ORP. In addition, under aerobic condition in bioreactor, energy consumption including excessive air injection is learned to be somewhat plenty. In order to solve this problem, in most of the process, improvement of internal recycling and activated environmental factor of microorganism were researched extensively. However, as factors are changed depending on various conditions, it is not sufficient as an indicator of judgment. As such, a research on operation of bioreactor that measures metabolic change in short time by directly measuring activated condition of microorganism using NADH fluorometer is required in reality.It is considered that the method like this could supplement problem of energy consumption being occurred in the existing treatment method and operational optimization of bioreactor would be enabled by controlling optimal air volume. Therefore, in this study, in order to obtain optimal operational indicator of bioreactor, proper air volume control test was performed and through batch test and site evaluation, possibility of NADH sensor being utilized as operational control indicator of bioreactor is intended to be analyzed. In order to compare with measured value, DO, ORP that are operational control indicator of existing bioreactor were used. As MLSS concentration was increased through batch test, NADH value was increased and site evaluation also showed similar tendency to batch test. Resultantly, it could be confirmed that changing level of NADH fluorometer was a sensor that could measure bioreactor condition effectively and optimized scale of bioreactor is considered to be utilized.

The objective of this study was to find optimum pretreatment conditions of ozone and microwave for solubilizationof thickened waste activated sludge (TWAS). Response surface analysis was applied to determine the combination of ozoneconcentration (0.03 to 0.1g O3/g total solid (TS)) and microwave temperature (100~170oC). The temperature significantlyaffected the solubilization degree of sludge (p<0.01). Within the design boundaries, the conditions predicted to maximizethe solubilization degree of 41.6% were determined to be 0.065g O3/g TS and 170oC. On the other hand, the solubilizationdegree with the ozone pretreatment alone was 2.7 to 12.2% at 0.03~0.1g O3/g TS. The results show that the combinationof ozone and microwave pretreatments is effective in solubilization of TWAS.

The objectives of this research was to evaluate the anaerobic digestibility of waste actizvated sludge (WAS) and wastebeverages in beverages manufacturing industry using BMP test under various conditions. Also, the effects of physical(ultrasonic) and biological (lactobacillus) solubilization process on anaerobic digestibility of WAS were thoroughlystudied. The soluble chemical oxygen demand (SCODCr)/total chemical oxygen demand (TCODCr) ratio of WAS was 0.15but the SCODCr/TCODCr ratio after solubilization was increased 17.5% by ultrasonic, 18.8% by lactobacillus respectively.The results of BMP test, methane gas productivity as mixing ratio of WAS and waste beverages were 156ml CH4/gCODCr,164ml CH4/gCODCr and 182ml CH4/g CODCr, respectively 9:1, 8:2, 7:3 before the solubilization of WAS. As themixing ratio of waste beverages increase, VFAs concentration and methane productivity was increased. Also, methanegas productivity as mixing ratio after the solubilization of WAS using ultrasonic and lactobacillus was increased3.3~11.3%, 11.1~15.2% respectively. From the results, it was judged that anaerobic digestion using WAS and wastebeverages could be feasible.

활성슬러지 공정의 생물학적 반응조 및 2차 침전지 설계와 관련해서 정상상태 설계식(Ekama et al., 1986; WRC, 1984) 및 1-D flux theory 설계식(Ekama et al., 1997)을 사용하여 슬러지 농도에 따라 두 가지 공정을 일괄적으로 설계하였다. 또한, 슬러지 농도에 따른 생물학적 반응조 및 2차 침전지 크기 변화를 도식화하고, 유입수 성상이나 슬러지 침강성, 환경 및 운전조건 그리고 첨두유량이 각 공정의 크기결정에 미치는 영향을 평가하였다. 먼저 유입수의 특성과 관련하여 난분해성 용해성 물질(fs,us)은 반응조 크기 결정에 큰 영향이 없었지만, 난분해성 입자성 물질(fs,up), 무기 고형물(fi) 및 유기물 강도(Sti)의 영향은 크게 나타났다. 운전인자인 Sludge Retention Time(SRT)의 경우, 슬러지 생산량과 관련되므로 반응조 크기결정에 역시 큰 영향을 미쳤다. 2차 침전지의 설계요소인 Sludge Volume Index(SVI) 및 첨두유량이 커질수록 2차 침전지에 수리학적 부하가 커지게 되어, 2차 침전지가 크게 설계되어야 했다. 본 설계과정에서는, 온도 변화가 미치는 영향은 작게 나타났다. 대규모 처리장의 경우 반응조 및 2차 침전지 전체 크기 결정과 함께 1개조 크기의 상한선을 설정하여 개수를 산정하였다. 최종적으로 엔지니어는 여러 가지 슬러지 농도에 대하여 반응조 및 2차 침전조의 크기, 개수 및 현장조건을 고려한 건설비용을 반복적으로 계산하게 되면, 최소비용 설계와 함께 최적의 슬러지 농도를 결정하게 된다.

Waste activated sludge (WAS) and food waste (FW) are available year round at low cost and have the potential to promote synergism in anaerobic digestion (AD). The goal of this study was to clarify the synergism in co-digestion of WAS and FW. A slight amount of FW at various ratios was added to WAS as an auxiliary substrate, and anaerobic batch tests were performed under mesophilic conditions. By adding FW, total CH₄ produced was increased, where most of them were come from WAS, clearly suggesting synergism. Also, lag period was shortened and CH₄ production rate was increased by FW addition. It was hypothesized that enhanced performance was owing to the facilitated hydrolysis of WAS by FW addition, which was revealed by the increased activities of hydrolytic α-amylase and protease.

The behavior of copper throughout the whole process of wastewater treatment plant that uses the activated sludge process to treat the wastewater of petrochemical industry that contains low concentration of copper was investigated. Total inflow rate of wastewater that flows into the aeration tank was 697 m3/day with 0.369 mg/L of copper concentration, that is, total copper influx was 257.2 g/day. The ranges of copper concentrations of the influent to the aeration tank and effluent from the one were 0.315 ~ 0.398 mg/L and 0.159 ~ 0.192 mg/L, respectively. The average removal rate of copper in the aeration tank was 50.8 %. The bioconcentration factor (BCF) of copper by microbes in the aeration tank was 3,320. The accumulated removal rate of copper throughout the activated sludge process was 71.3%, showing a high removal ratio by physical and chemical reactions in addition to biosorption by microbes. The concentration of copper in the solid dehydrated by filter press ranged from 74.8 mg/kg to 77.2 mg/kg and the concentration of copper by elution test of waste was 2.690 ~ 2.920 mg/L. It was judged that the copper concentration in dehydrated solid by bioconcentration could be managed with the control of that in the influent.

The activated sludge obtained from wastewater coke oven plant was immobilized by entrapment with polyethylene glycol (PEG). The effects of several factors on the biodegradation of CN- from synthetic wastewater were investigated using batch and continuous reactors. The degradation rate of CN- increased with increasing of the immobilized bead volume in the reactor. Approximately 7.65 mg/L of NH4-N was produced upon the degradation of 35 mg/L of CN-. When high concentrations of the toxic cyanide complex were used in the testing of cyanide degradation, the free activated sludge could be inhibited more than that of the immobilized activated sludge. When the phenol concentration was higher than 400 mg/L in the synthetic wastewater, approximately 98.4% of CN- was removed within 42 hours by the immobilized activated sludge. However, the cyanide was not completely degraded by the free activated sludge. This indicates that high phenol concentrations can act as a toxic factor for the free activated sludge. A CN- concentration of less than 1 mg/L was achieved by the immobilized sludge at the loading rate of 0.025 kg CN-/m3-d. Moreover, it was found that the HRT should be kept for 48 hours in order to obtain stable treatment conditions.

The activated sludge from the aeration basin of the Su-yeong municipal wastewater treatment plant which has operated by a standard activated sludge process in Busan, Korea was investigated during April 2004 and January 2005 with several bio-indicators. The number of bacteria and fungi per gram of dry weight of MLSS were estimated to be 3.1×106~1.5×108 and 1.1×103~1.1×105 colony forming units, respectively, by the plate agar method. By cultivation-independent methods, such as 4’,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole stain and fluorescence in situ hybridization, the ratio of eubacteria to the entire biomass was evaluated by more than 80% (v/v). The ratio of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria to the total eubacteria was determined to be 7.0~9.8% and 3.3~6.2% without heavy variation in spite of a period of relatively low temperature in the basin. It would be expected that the nitrification would occur or at least co-exist throughout the year in the sludge of many municipal WWTP with influents that contain the sufficient nitrogen sources although the WWTP does not have any specialized processes for the removal of nitrogen.

The biosorption of dye, Rhodamine B(Rh-B), onto waste activated sludge was investigated. The biosorption capacity and contact time were shown as a simulation of dye adsorption equilibrium and kinetics models. We observed that biosorption of Rh-B occurred rapidly less than 4hr. These experimental data could be better fitted by a pseudo-second-order rate equation than a pseudo-first-order rate equation. The equilibrium dependence between biosorption capacity and initial concentration of Rh-B was estimated and it was found that the equilibrium data of biosorption were fitted by four kinds of model such as Langmuir, Freundlich, Redlich- Peterson, and Koble-Corrigan model. The average percentage errors, ε(%), observed between experimental and predicted values by above each model were 21.19%, 9.97%, 10.10% and 11.76%, respectively, indicating that Freundlich and Redlich-Peterson model could be fitted more accrately than other models.

This study was performed : 1) to establish the experimental analysis conditions for the sorption and desorption of toxic organic contaminants to/from the activated sludge, sediment, and clay, and 2) to determine the sorption and desorption equilibrium coefficients of some representative halogenated aliphatic compounds. Through the preliminary sorption test using Azo dye, a setting of quantitative experimental conditions to determine the sorption and desorption characteristics was decided as follows; equilibration time of 180 minutes, centrifuge for 15 minutes at 5000×g, and 500㎎/ℓ of TOC concentration. The sorption and desorption characteristics of halogenated aliphatic compounds onto activated sludge, sediment and clay could be described very well using the Freundlich isotherm. The preference of the average sorption capacity of the overall compounds showed in the sequence sediment 0.26㎎/g, clay 0.23㎎/g, and activated sludge 0.11㎎/g. The desorption rate of the sorbed compounds onto activated sludge, sediment and clay was approximately 89.8%, 35.3%, and 66.4%, respectively.

This study was investigated to evaluate the effect of the sodium ion and pH on toxicity of dinitrophenol at high concentrations (0.41 to 0.54 mM), over a sodium concentration range of 0.1 mM to 107 mM and over a pH range of 5 to 9. The concentration of sodium ions in the activated sludge mixed liquor seemed to have very little effect on dinitrophenol toxicity. However, lack of sodium in the growth media resulted in a reduction of the dinitrophenol degradation rate by bacterial isolate from the activated sludge culture, which has been identified as Nocardia asteroides. Dinitrophenol inhibition was found to be strongly dependent on mixed liquor pH. The dinitrophenol degradation rate was highest in the pH range of 6.95 to 7.84; at pH 5.94 degradation of 75 mg/L dinitrophenol was significantly inhibited; at pH < 5.77, dinitrophenol degradation was completely inhibited after approximately 30% of the dinitrophenol was degraded.