Bioreactors are devices used by sewage treatment plants to process sewage and which produce active sludge, and sediments separated by solid-liquid are treated in anaerobic digestion tanks. In anaerobic digestion tanks, the volume of active sludge deposits is reduced and biogas is produced. After dehydrating the digestive sludge generated after anaerobic digestion, anaerobic digested wastewater, which features a high concentration of organic matters, is generated. In this study, the decomposition of organic carbon and nitrogen was studied by advanced oxidation process. Ozone-microbubble flotation process was used for oxidation pretreatment. During ozonation, the TOC decreased by 11.6%. After ozone treatment, the TOC decreased and the removal rate reached 80.4% as a result of the Ultra Violet-Advanced Oxidation Process (UV-AOP). The results with regard to organic substances before and after treatment differed depending on the organic carbon index, such as CODMn, CODCr, and TOC. Those indexes did not change significantly in ozone treatment, but decreased significantly after the UV-AOP process as the linkage treatment, and were removed by up to 39.1%, 15.2%, and 80.4%, respectively. It was confirmed that biodegradability was improved according to the ratio of CODMn to TOC. As for the nitrogen component, the ammonia nitrogen component showed a level of 3.2×102 mg/L or more, and the content was maintained at 80% even after treatment. Since most of the contaminants are removed from the treated water and its transparency is high, this water can be utilized as a resource that contains high concentrations of nitrogen.

The disposal of organic pollutants is one of the important research topics. Some of the studies in this field are based on the degradation of organic pollutants with a catalytic agent. The cobalt tetraoxide/peroxymonosulfate system is an important catalytic system used for the radical degradation of organic pollutants. To increase the catalytic efficiency of such reactions, graphitization of activated carbon used as a support solid and nitrogen doping to the carbon structure are commonly used methods. In this study, cobalt tetraoxide production, N-doping and graphitization were carried out in a single step by heat treatment of activated carbon doped with the phthlocyanine cobalt (II) complex. The catalytic performance of the catalyst/ peroxymonosulfate system was investigated by changing the pH, catalyst, and PMS concentration parameters on rhodamine B and 1,3,5 trichlorophenol, which were used as models. It was seen that the catalysts had 97% activity on rhodamine B in 16 min and 100% on 1,3,5 trichlorophenol in 6 min. It was observed that the catalysts continued to show high catalytic activity for five cycles in reusability studies and had a very low cobalt leaching rate. These results are in good agreement with previously published studies. In line with these results, the synthesized N-doped graphitic carbon/Co3O4 catalyst can be used as an effective catalyst for wastewater treatments.

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are a paramount factor in air pollution of the environment. VOCs are vastly present in the wastewater discharged by the pharmaceutical industries. As it is evaporative in nature, it enters the environment spontaneously and causes air pollution, global warming, acid rain and climate change. VOCs must be treated before discharging or any other aerobic methods using an efficient catalyst. As the catalytic oxidation in the liquid phase is facile compared to the gas phase, this study investigated on catalytic liquid-phase oxidation of VOCs in model and real pharmaceutical wastewater. The model compounds of toluene-, ethylbenzene- and chlorobenzene-contaminated waters were treated separately along with the VOCs present in real pharmaceutical wastewater using a tungsten-based carbon catalyst. The tungsten was impregnated on the low-cost activated carbon matrix as it has good selectivity and catalytic property toward VOCs for facile catalytic operations. The metal catalysts were characterised by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction studies, and scanning electron microscopy with elemental and mapping analysis. The treatability was monitored by total organic carbon, ultra-violet spectroscopy and high-pressure liquid chromatography analysis. The tungsten-impregnated activated carbon matrix (WACM) has a catalytic efficiency toward toluene by 85.45 ± 1.78%, ethylbenzene by 93.9 ± 1.16%, chlorobenzene by 85.9 ± 2.26% and pharmaceutical VOCs by 85.05 ± 1.73% in 20 treatment cycles. The results showed that WACM worked efficiently in VOCs treatment, preventing the environment from air pollution. Furthermore, liquid-phase oxidation could easily be implementable on an industrial scale.

본 연구에서는 하수처리유출수의 유기물 성상을 제어하기 위해 서로 다른 흡착제를 적용하여 역삼투막의 막오염 경향성을 관찰하였다. 실험실 규모에서 역삼투막 운전결과, 다중벽탄소나노튜브 (5%), 팽창흑연 (21%), 하수처리유출수(25%), 활성탄 (26%) 순서로 초기대비 투과수량이 감소하였다. 형성된 막오염 물질의 FEEM 분석결과, 활성탄의 경우 팽창흑연, 다중벽탄소나노튜브, 하수처리 유출수에 상대적으로 높은 미생물유래물질에 의한 막오염이 존재하였다. 더 나아가, 분자량 분석 결과를 통해 고분자 미생물유래물질(>15K Da)의 영향이 큰 것을 확인하였다. 결과적으로, 하수재이용공정에서 고분자 미생물유래물질이 역삼투막 효율저하의 주요한 역할을 하며, 이를 저감시키기 위한 방안마련이 필요하다고 판단되었다.

Study on effluent organic matter (EfOM) characteristic and removal efficiency is required, because EfOM is important in regard to the stability of effluents reuse, quality issues of artificial recharge and water conservation of aqueous system. UV technology is widely used in wastewater treatment. Many reports have been conducted on microbial disinfection and micro pollutant reduction with UV treatment. However, the study on EfOM with UV has limited because low/medium pressure UV lamp is not sufficient to affect refractory organics. The high intensity of pulsed UV would mineralize EfOM itself as well as change the characteristics of EfOM. Chlorine demand and DBPs formation is affected on the changed amounts and properties of EfOM. The objective of this study is to investigate the effect on EfOM, chlorine residual, and chlorinated DBPs formation with low pressure and pulsed UV treatment. The removal of organic matter through low pressure UV treatment is insignificant effect. Pulsed UV treatment effectively removes/transforms EfOM. As a result, the chlorine consumption is changed and chlorine DBPs formation is decreased. However, excessive UV treatment caused problems of increasing chlorine consumption and generating unknown by-products.

인체에 해를 일으키는 유기염소계 탄화수소화합물로 오염된 폐수 및 음용수에서 미량의 유기성분을 분리하기 위하여 투과증발법에 의한 정수를 여러가지 막을 사용하여 살펴보았다. 유기염소계 탄화수소 화합물들은 발암성 추정물질들로서 미량이 체내에 있어도 암을 유발시킬 가능성이 있다. 물속에 미량 녹아 있는 유기염소계 화합물들을 분리하기 위해 본 실험에서는 물은 배제시키고 유기용제에 대해서는 친화성을 가질 것으로 예측되는 소수성 고무상 막인 폴리이소부틸렌막, 폴리에테르아미드막 및 폴리디메틸실록산 복합막을 사용하였다. 이들 막의 분리 대상용질에 대한 친화성 여부를 접촉각을 측정하여 검토하였다. 투과증발법을 사용하여 물에 미량 녹아 있는 트리크로로에틸렌, 클로로포름 및 퍼클로로에틸렌에 대한 분리를 실시한 결과, 분리 선택도가 최소 34에서 최대 19100의 값을 나타내었으며, 투과유량은 최소 19.7g/m2hr에서 최대 140g/m2hr의 우수한 결과를 얻었다

Organic wastewater generated from polyester manufacturing processes was selected from H company to investigate the feasibility of anaerobic digestion that produces gases including methane. Bio Methane Potential (BMP) tests were conducted to measure the gas production and methane concentration for 7 process wastewater and 2 kinds of sludges from the H company. Also, along with monitoring pH and alkalinity during the anaerobic digestion process, the concentrations of COD and 1,4-dioxane were measured with 4 different operating conditions for N Emulsion (NE) and Ethylene Glycol (EG) wastewater. The BMP tests showed that 65% of methane was produced from NE and EG wastewater. This suggests that the organic wastewater from H company can be effectively treated by an anaerobic digester by which more than 90% of COD was removed.

도계량을 현재의 2배까지 증가시킬 예정인 닭 가공 업체인 A사의 생물학적 처리조를 대상으로 하여 처리효율을 2배까지 높이는 방안을 모색하였다. 이를 위해 MLSS 농도가 증가할 경우 이에 따른 유기물 및 질소 제거 효율 증가에 대한 근거를 확보하고자 연구를 진행하였다. 연구는 닭 가공 폐수를 1차 화학 처리한 가압부상처리수를 대상으로 진행되었으며 SBR 형태로 진행되어 호기조 상태 25시간 운전 후, 무산소조 상태 5시간으로 운전되었다. MLSS 12,700mg/L로 진행된 실험 결과 호기조 상태 25시간 이내에 질산화가 완벽하게 일어났으며 C/N비 3:1 이상 실험군에서의 탈질 효율도 90%를 초과하였다. 후에 진행된 MLSS 농도 대비 유기물 및 질소 제거 효율 비교에서는 MLSS 농도를 5,600에서 12,700mg/L까지 변화시켰으며 MLSS 농도 10,800mg/L 실험군에서 유기물과 총 질소 농도 모두 배출허용기준치를 만족하는 결과를 보였다.

Laboratory investigation was conducted to evaluat the mixing effects on organic removal efficiency to treat low-strength synthetic wastewater using modified anaerobic filter reactor combining anaerobic filter and upflow anaerobic sludge blanket. Using the modified process the low-strength wastewater like municipal sewage could be treated with 85% T-COD removal efficiency at hydraulic retention time of 6 hours. At the constant organic loading of 0.5㎏ COD/㎥-day, the organic removal efficiency and effluent COD concentration are increased as influent COD concentration increased from 125 ㎎/ℓto 500 ㎎/ℓ. Mixing effects on organic removal efficiency are evident and optimum mixing speed is found as 50RPM. Placing the granular studge and media on which slime layer was pre-formed into the reactor seemed to be very effective in achieving short start-up period. Therefore the steady state was achived after 4 weeks and 1 week based on T-COD and S-COD, respectively.

This study was conducted to investigate the biological treatment capability of MMCMAS(Movinig Media Complete Mixing Activated Sludge) reactor for high strength organic wastewater (Average BOD=800㎎/ℓ). And this experimental results were compared previous study for low strength organic wastewater (Average BOD=150㎎/ℓ) by the same reactor. In this study, we abtained following conclusions ; (1) The laboratory MMCMAS reactor demonstrated that SBOD removal efficiencies of more than 90% can be achieved at organic loading rates of 30.9 gBOD/㎡/d for high strength organic wastewater and 39.4 gBOD/㎡/d for low strength organic wastewater, respectively. (2) The nitrification rates of MMCMAS reactor was found same results of similiar organic loading rates. (3) The ratio of attached biomass to total biomass on the moving media varied in the range of 40 to 63% and 32 to 94% for high and low strength organic wastewater, respetively. And it was varied at the various concentration of influents for the similiar organic loading rates. The sludge production rates was found approximately 0.37 gVSS/gBODrem. in MMCMAS reactor.