Eutrophication and algal blooms can lead to increase of taste and odor compounds and health problems by cyanobacterial toxins. To cope with these eco-social issues, Ministry of Environment in Korea has been reinforcing the effluent standards of wastewater treatment facilities. As a result, various advanced phosphorus removal processes have been adopted in each wastewater treatment plant nation-widely. However, a lot of existing advanced wastewater treatment processes have been facing the problems of expensive cost in operation and excessive sludge production caused by high dosage of coagulant. In this study, the sedimentation and dissolved air flotation (SeDAF) process integrated with sedimentation and flotation has been developed for enhanced phosphorus removal in wastewater treatment facilities. Design and operating parameters of the SeDAF process with the capacity of 100 m3/d were determined, and a demonstration plant has been installed and operated at I wastewater treatment facility (located in Gyeonggi-do) for the verification of field applicability. Several empirical evaluations for the SeDAF process were performed at demonstration-plant scale, and the results showed clearly that T-P and turbidity values of treated water were to satisfy the highest effluent standards below 0.2 mg/L and 2.0 NTU stably for all of operation cases.

본 연구는 RO 공정을 통한 해수담수화 플랜트의 에너지 저감을 위한 FO/RO hybrid pilot plant 실증 연구에 관한 것이다. 폐수처리 방류수를 이용하여 FO 공정을 통해 해수를 희석시키고, 희석된 해수는 RO 공정을 통해 담수를 생산하는 공정으로 폐수재이용과 저에너지 담수화를 목적으로 하였다. 이 공정은 RO 공정에 유입되는 해수의 염도가 낮아지기 때문에 담수화 에너지를 획기적으로 낮추는 것이 가능하다. 운전된 system은 유입수 기준 1ton/hr의 처리용량을 가 지는 FO/RO hybrid 공정으로 화력발전소 내의 해수담수화 설비내에서 운전하였다. 이를 통하여 기존 RO system 대비 약 20~30%정도의 에너지 소비 저감 효과 및 RO의 fouling 개선 효과가 있음을 확인하였다.