Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers (대한환경공학회지)

Korean Society of Environmental Engineers (대한환경공학회)
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Estimation of Acidic Wastewater Toxicity on the Activated Sludge

활성슬러지에 미치는 산폐수의 독성도 예측

  • Choi, Kwang-Soo (Department of Marine Environmental Engineering, Kyeongsang National University, The Institute of Marine Industry) ;
  • Ko, Joo-Hyung (Department of Environmental Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Jang, Won-Ho (Department of Environmental Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Kim, Chang-Won (Department of Environmental Engineering, Pusan National University)
  • 최광수 (경상대학교 해양환경공학과, 해양산업연구소) ;
  • 고주형 (부산대학교 환경공학과) ;
  • 장원호 (부산대학교 환경공학과) ;
  • 김창원 (부산대학교 환경공학과)
  • Received : 2000.07.04
  • Accepted : 2000.10.18
  • Published : 2000.12.31
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Abstract

Respiration rate should be a reasonable state variable for the activated sludge and could be used to simulate the performance of the activated sludge process. Toxic materials are classified into three groups, competitive, noncompetitive and uncompetitive. They increase/decrease the half saturation coefficient or specific growth rate. that means decreasing of the substrate removal capacity. In this research, a pilot-scale activated sludge process was operated under extended aeration method, and a representative noncompetitive inhibitor, acidic wastewater was applied to establish a respirometry-based toxicity model. Using this model. the correlation coefficient between measured and calculated respiration rate was 0.96 when acidic wastewater(pH 3.9~5.5) was introduced continuously to the aeration tank. Even though respiration rate was decreased by toxic effect of acidic wastewater, effluent substrate concentration represented to COD was deteriorated just a little bit. It might be caused by the low ratio of readily biodegradable substrate in the input substrate. Reduction of respiration rate by decreasing of input substrate concentration was much lower than that by acidic wastewater, and hence it was estimated that the possibility of false toxic alarm caused by decreasing of substrate concentration should be low.

호흡율은 활성미생물의 상태를 정확하게 나타낼 수 있는 상태변수로서 활성슬러지 공정을 모사하는데 유용하게 이용될 수 있다. 크게 competitive, noncompetitive, uncompetitive로 분류되는 독성물질은 미생물의 반속도상수와 비성장율을 증가/감소시켜 기질제거능을 떨어뜨린다. 본 연구에서는 장기폭기법으로 운전되는 pilot-scale 활성슬러지 공정을 대상으로 대표적인 noncompetitive 억제물질인 산성폐수가 유발하는 독성영향을 예측할 수 있는 모델을 도출하고 호흡율을 중심으로 활성슬러지의 거동을 모사하였다. Noncompetitive 억제 모델을 이용하여 pH 3.9~5.5의 산성폐수 유입시 호흡율의 실측치와 계산치는 상관계수가 0.96 이상으로 매우 근사한 결과를 보였다. 그러나 COD로 표현된 유출수 기질농도는 독성영향에도 불구하고 큰 변화를 보이지 않았다. 이는 유입수중의 생분해성 기질(readily biodegradable substrate) 농도가 낮기 때문인 것으로 판단되었다. 그리고 유입수의 기질농도 감소에 의한 호흡율의 감소보다 산성폐수에 의한 호흡율의 감소가 훨씬 크게 나타나 기질농도 감소에 따른 호흡율 기초 독성감지 장치의 오류 가능성은 적은 것으로 판단되었다.

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