Determination of the Coagulant Injection Methods for Efficient Treatment of Industrial Wastewater

산업폐수의 효율적 처리를 위한 응집제의 주입방법 결정

The various of raw wastewater inflows to the industrial wastewater treatment plants everyday. This makes it difficult to operate the coagulation and flocculation efficiently as a pretreatment process for the industrial wastewater treatment. Additionally, it causes loads on evaporation and membrane facilities which are the posttreatment and alternative processes. For this reason, this study sampled raw wastewater before and after the NaOH injection. An experiment was conducted to compare the coagulation characteristics according to the methods of coagulant injection (single injection, simultaneous injection, consecutive injection, and inverse injection) aiming at efficient treatment of industrial wastewater. The coagulation experiment was conducted using a jar tester. The TDS removal efficiency by the coagulant injection methods increased in the order of consecutive injection (2.8 %) < single injection (3.9 %) < simultaneous injection(8.1 %) < inverse injection(9.6 %); the TOC removal efficiency grew in the order of single injection (84.3 %) < inverse injection (86.2 %) < consecutive injection (88.6 %) < simultaneous injection (89.1 %); the turbidity removal efficiency grew from single injection (99.7 %) < consecutive injection (99.8 %) ${\fallingdotseq}$ inverse injection (99.8 %) < simultaneous injection (99.9 %). These results show that the simultaneous inorganic coagulant-polymer coagulant injection method was more efficient than the consecutive injection method (inorganic coagulant ${\rightarrow}$ polymer coagulant).

폐수수탁처리업에 반입되는 산업폐수의 원수 성상이 매일 달라짐에 따라 전처리 공정인 응집침전공정의 효율적 운전이 어려운 실정이며, 이로 인해 후처리공정인 증발농축 및 대체 공정인 membrane 공정의 부하원인이 되고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 산업폐수의 효율적 처리를 위해 응집제 주입 방법별(단독주입, 동시주입, 순차주입, 역주입) 응집특성을 비교하기 위해 NaOH 주입 전 후 폐수 원수를 채수하여 실험하였다. 응집실험은 Jar-tester를 이용하여 진행하였다. 응집제주입방법별 TDS 제거효율은 순차주입(2.8 %) < 단독주입(3.9 %) < 동시주입(8.1 %) < 역주입(9.6 %) 순으로, TOC 제거효율은 단독주입(84.3 %) < 역주입(86.2 %) < 순차주입(88.6 %) < 동시주입(89.1 %) 순으로, 탁도 제거효율은 단독주입(99.7 %) < 순차주입(99.8 %) ${\fallingdotseq}$ 역주입(99.8 %) < 동시주입(99.9 %) 순으로 각각 나타내어, 이를 종합적으로 고려하여 판단한 결과 순차주입방법(무기응집제${\rightarrow}$고분자응집제)보다 무기응집제 및 고분자응집제를 동시에 주입하는 방법이 더 효율적인 것으로 나타났다.