The purpose of this experimental research was focused to improve the quality of the effluent and the yielded sludge when the papermill wastewater was treated by the indirect aerated submerged biofilter as a second treatment method of papermill wastewater. Changing the various experimental factors(Nutrient additions or not, HRT, F/M ratio, recirculation ratio, etc) with indirect aerated biofilter, the results obtained are as follows. 1. Because of the microbes concentration could be sustained to $9,000mg/l$ in submerged biofilter and then the volumetric organic loads could be increased to $2.7kg-BOD/m^3/day$(that of activated sludge is $0.8kg-BOD/m^3/day$), the reactor volume can be reduced to one third of the activated sludge treatment. 2. Because of the yield coefficient(Y) and the endogenous decay coefficient(kd) were revealed 0.4 and 0.07/d, the yielded sludge volume was reduced by for compared with that of the activated sludgg process. 3. The concentration of the sloughed sludge in the reactor was 2.62~4.01%, so the thickener could be omitted in the papermill wastewater sludge treatment process. 4. When the operating was conducted at HRT of 4hrs, the treatment efficiencies of BOD and COD were obtained 80% and 70%, Therefore operating time can be reduced to one half of the activated sludge treatment.

In this study, the removal possibility of nutrients of T-P, NH3-N, NO3-N, and T-N is examined through a positive experimental study using submerged biofilter of media packing channel method. From the analysis of nutrients removal efficiency for each run of the collected sample, following results are obtained. Firstly, the result of N/P surveying for inflow shows serious value that excess the limit value of 20 as the values are in the range of 12.0∼42.7 and the average is 25.73. Secondly, the highest concentration of the incoming NH3-N reaches double of the standard since the concentrations of NH3-N, and NO3-N for inflow shows 0.06㎎/ℓ , and 2.5∼3.8㎎/ℓ respectively, and the average removal rate which passed the submerged biofilter adopted in this study is a satisfactory level. Next, the average removal rate of T-P of 51.5% shows the possibility of entrophication removal since the removal rate of T-P of 66.8∼68.8% in relative low temperature period of RUN 1∼2 appeared higher than in RUN 3∼6, and T-N shows relatively poor result with the average removal rate of 34.1%. And it is known that the bigger BOD/P and BOD/N are, the more removal rate increases from the examination result of the relation between BOD/P and BOD/N, and the treatment water T-P and T-N to decide the relation with the concentration of organic matters, and thought that the appropriate proportion is necessary for effective removal of nitrogen and phosphorus.

The Soysauce wastewater removal characteristics of submerged biofilters filled with two filter media respectively were experimentally examined with constant temperature, pH value and variable BOD loading and recirculation ratio. The decreasing order of BOD removal is Netring(random plastic media), cubic wire meshes(plastic module). This is mainly due to the media characteristics such as void ratio, specific surface area and media shapes. The BOD removal ratio decreases with increasing BOD_5 volumetric loading rate, and the loading rate for the BOD removal over 85% is lower than 1.5㎏BOD_5/㎡d for the plastic media of Netring and cubic wire meshes. The BOD_5 removal rate increases with the recirculation ratio, but the rate of increase become smaller as the recirculation ratio increases over 20. When BOD_5 volumetric loading is 1.5㎏BOD_5/㎡d, the required recirculation ratio to obtain 85% BOD_5 removal is about 20 for Netring and it was about 30 for cubic wire meshes.

The purpose of this experimental research was focused to improve the quality of the effluent and the yielded sludge when the papermill wastewater was treated by the indirect aerated submerged biofilter as a second treatment method of papermill wastewater. Changing the various experimental factors (Nutrient additions or not, HRT, F/M ratio, recirculation ratio, etc) with indirect aerated submerged biofilter, the results are as follows. 1) Because of the microbes concentration could be sustained to 9,000 ㎎/l in submerged biofilter and then the volumetric organic loads could be increased to 2.7 ㎏-BOD/㎥/day, the reactor volume can be reduced. 2) Because of the yield coefficient(Y) and the endogenous decay coefficient(kd) were revealed 0.4 and 0.07/d, the yielded sludge volume was reduced. 3) The concentration of the sloughed sludge in the reactor was 2.62-4.01 %, so the thickener could be omited in the papermill wastewater sludge treatment process. 4) When the operating was conducted at HRT of 4hrs, the treatment efficiencies of BOD and COD were obtained 80% and 70%. 5) The range of the theoretical recirculation ratios of this reactor was 14-26. According to those ratios, at the low loads ( BOD volumetric loads is less than 0.79㎏-BOD/㎥/day, F/M ratio is less than 2.0/d) the results were fitted to the theoretical recirculation ratios (14∼26) and at the high loads the efficiency were increased to the rise of recirculation ratios.