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Treatment of Wastewater from Purified Terephtalic Acid (PTA) Production in a Two-stage Anaerobic Expanded Granular Sludge Bed System

  • Lee, Young-Shin (Department of Environment Engineering, Hanseo University) ;
  • Han, Gee-Bong (Department of Biosciences & Environmental Engineering, The Catholic University of Korea)
  • Received : 2014.09.03
  • Accepted : 2014.11.24
  • Published : 2014.12.31
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Abstract

The wastewater treatment with a two-phase expanded granular sludge bed (EGSB) system for anaerobic degradation of acetate, benzoate, terephtalate and p-toluate from purified terephtalic acid (PTA) production was studied. The feasibility and effectiveness of the system was evaluated in terms of organic oxidation by chemical oxygen demand (COD), gas production, bacterial adaptability and stability in the granular sludge. Average removal efficiencies 93.5% and 72.7% were achieved in the EGSB reactors under volumetric loading rates of $1.0-15kg-COD/m^3/day$ and terephtalate and p-toluate of 351-526 mg/L, respectively. Gas production reached total methane production rate of 0.30 L/g-COD under these conditions in the sequential EGSB reactor system. Higher strength influent COD concentration above 4.8 g-COD/L related to field conditions was fed to observe the disturbance of the EGSB reactors.

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