Leachate Treatment using Intermittently Aerated BAC-Fluidizing Bed

간헐폭기 생물활성탄 유동상에 의한 매립지침출수 처리

Leachate from landfill sites contains high organics, chloride and ammonium nitrogen in concentration which might be potentially major pollutants to surface and groundwater environment. Most of landfill leachate treatment plants in Korea consist of biological processes to remove BOD and nitrogen. However, the efficiencies of refractory organics removal, nitrification and denitrification have not met frequently the national effluent regulation of wastewater treatment facility, especially in winter season. Simultaneous removal of organics and nitrogen from leachate is strongly necessitated to meet the national regulation on effluents from leachate treatment facilities. The intermittently aerated biological activated carbon fluidized bed(IABACFB) process was applied to treat real landfill leachates containing refractory organics and high concentration of ammonium nitrogen. The IABACFB reactor consisted of a single bed in which BAC fluidizing and an aerating column. The fluidized bed is intermittently aerated through the blower located at the aerating column. Experiments were performed to evaluate the applicability of Intermittently Aerated BACFB for simultaneous removal of refractory organic carbon and ammonium nitrogen of leachate. Organics and ammonia nitrogen($NH{_4}{^+}-N$)are oxidized during the aerobic stage, and nitrite-nitrate nitrogen($NO{_x}{^-}-N$) are removed to nitrogen gas through denitrification reaction during anoxic state. The IABACFB reactor condition reached a steady state within 40 days since the reactors had been operated. The blowing mode of 60 min.-On/60 min.-OFF is more compatible to remove TOC and ($NH{_4}{^+}-N$) operated. The blowing mode of 60 min.-On/60 min.-OFF is more compatible to remove TOC and ($NH{_4}{^+}-N$) simultaneously than the mode of 30 min.-On/90 min.-OFF. The average removal efficiencies of TOC, the refractory organic carbon, and the average efficiencies of nitrification and denitrification were 90%, 75%, 80%, 95%, respectively.

난분해성 유기물과 암모니아성 질소의 동시제거를 위해 간헐폭기 생물활성탄 유동상법을 이용하여 고농도 유기물함유 침출수에 대하여 실험을 수행하였다. 간헐폭기시 고려되어야 하는 폭기 시간과 비폭기 시간에 대하여 실험적 검토를 수행하였고 자동컴퓨터제어 가능성에 대하여 고찰하여 보았다. 그 결과 생물활성탄 유동상 반응조에 충전한 활성탄의 물리적 흡착능은 초기의 처리효율에 크게 기여하였으며 간헐폭기 생물활성탄 유동상에 의한 침출수 처리시 정상상태에 도달하는 시간은 40일 정도이었고 TOC와 암모니아성 질소 처리시 양호한 프로세스임을 알 수 있었다. 폭기 및 비폭기시간은 60분 폭기/60분 비폭기의 조건이 30분 폭기/90분 비폭기에 비해 처리효율이 양호하게 나타났고 고농도 유기물함유 침출수 처리실험에서 간헐폭기 생물활성탄 유동상에 의한 처리방법은 높은 TOC제거율, 질산화율 및 탈질율, 난분해성 유기탄소 제거율을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 간헐폭기시 ORP 곡선의 변화에서 나타나는 굴곡점은 무산소상태의 종결점을 나타내는 파라메터로 이용가능하며 이를 간헐폭기 반응조의 최적 운전모드를 설정하는데 응용할 경우 소규모 자동화가 가능할 것으로 판단되었다.