Feasibility Study of Applying EMMC Process to Recirculation Water Treatment System in High Density Seawater Aquaculture Farm through Laboratory Scale Reactor Operation

실험실규모 반응조 운전을 통한 고밀도 해산어 양식장 순환수 처리공정으로서 EMMC공정의 적용 가능성 연구

Treatability tests were conducted to study the feasibility of EMMC process as a recycling-water treatment system in high density seawater aquaculture farm. To study the effect of organic and ammonia nitrogen loading rate on system performance, hydraulic retention time was reduced gradually from 12hr to 10min. The conclusions are can be summarized as follows. When the system HRT was reduced from 12hr to 2hr gradually, there was little noticeable change(reduction) in ammonia nitrogen removal efficiencies. However, removal efficiencies were decreased dramatically when the system was operated under the HRT of less than 2hr. In case of organics(COD), there was no dramatic change in removal efficiencies depending on HRT reduction. COD removal efficiencies were maintained successfully higher than 9％ when the system was operated at tile HRT of 10 min. System performances depending on media packing ratio in the reactors were also evaluated. There were little differences in each reactor performances depending on media packing ratio in reactor when the reactors were operated under the HRT of longer than 1hr. However, differences in reactor performances were considerably evident when the reactors were operated under the HRT of shorter than 1hr. When comparing reactor performance among 25％, 50％,7 5％ packed reactor, it can be judged that media packing ratio more than 50％ plays no significant role in increasing reactor performance. For this reason, packing the media less than 50％ is more reasonable way in view of economic. Such a tendency shown in COD removal efficiencies well agreed with the variation of ammonia-nitrogen removal efficiencies according to the media packing ratio in reactors at each HRT. Difference in effluent ammonia-nitrogen concentration between 50％ media packing reactor and 75％ media packing reactor was negligible. When comparing with the results of 25％ packing reactor, difference was not so great.

고밀도 순환여과식 해산어 양식장의 순환수 처리에 EMMC공정의 적용 가능성을 평가하기 위한 실험을 실시하였다. 처리공정의 운전효율에 유기물 및 암모니아성 질소 부하가 미치는 영향을 평가하기 위하여 수리학적 체류기간을 12시간에서 10분까지 점차적으로 줄여가며 실험을 실시하였다. HRT 2시간까지는 수리학적 체류시간 변화에 따른 제거효율 변화가 거의 없었으나 그 이하의 체류시간에서는 체류시간 단축에 따른 제거효율의 감소가 비교적 크게 나타났다. COD의 경우에는 체류시간 단축에 따른 급격한 제거효율의 변화가 관측되지 않았으며 10분 정도의 체류시간에서도 90％이상의 제거효율을 나타내었다. 메디아 충진율에 따른 반응조 운전효율변화를 보면 HRT가 1시간보다 긴 경우에는 메디아 충진율에 따른 제거효율 변화가 극히 미미하였다. 그러나 1시간 이하의 체류시간에서는 그 차가 상당히 크게 나타나 충진량이 많을수록 제거효율이 높게 나타났으나 50％이상의 메디아 충진이 반응조 운전효율 측면에서는 큰 역할을 하지 못함을 나타내어 경제성 등을 고려할 경우 25％정도만을 충진 시키는 것이 오히려 합리적이라 판단되었다. 이와 같은 경향은 암모니아성 질소 제거의 경우에도 유사한 양상을 나타내었다. 메디아 충진율 50％와 75％사이에는 처리효율의 차이가 거의 없었고 25％충진 반응조와의 차이도 그리 크지 않은 것으로 나타났다.