• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.123-130
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• 2020

Submerged Membrane bioreactor (SMBR) is one of the last techniques that allow a high quality of treated industrial effluents by coupling biological treatment and membrane separation. Thus, this research was an effort to evaluate performance of a SMBR treating a model textile wastewater (MTWW). Different SMBR operating parameters like mixed liquor suspended solids (MLSS) and Dissolved oxygen concentration, hydraulic retention time (HRT), and nutrients addition (N and P) have been investigated. MTWW (influent to the SMBR) was generated using the reactive azo-dye, Novacron blue FNG (100mg/L feed concentration). Results of MTWW treatment using SMBR under optimal operating conditions (MLSS, 4.2-13.3g/L; HRT, 4 days; pH, 6.9-7.2; conductivity, 400-900 μS/cm and temperature, 19.4-22.2 ℃) showed that COD and blue colour treatment performances are between 94-98% and 30-80%, respectively. It is concluded that SMBR can be used in large scale textile wastewater treatment plants to improve effluent quality in order to meet effluent discharge standards.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.131-138
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• 2014

While coupling wastewater treatment with microalgal bioenergy production is very promising, new approaches are needed to enhance microalgal growth and lipid accumulation in wastewater. Therefore, this study investigated the effect of iron on the growth, nutrient removal, and lipid accumulation of Scenedesmus sp. LX1 in both artificial wastewater and domestic secondary effluents. When increasing the iron concentration from 0 to 2 mg/l in the artificial wastewater, the biomass production of Scenedesmus sp. LX1 increased from 0.17 to 0.54 g/l; the nitrogen and phosphorus removal efficiency increased from 15.7% and 80.6% to 97.0% and 99.2%, respectively; and the lipid content was enhanced 84.2%. The relationship between the carrying capacity/maximal population growth rate of Scenedesmus sp. LX1 and the initial iron concentration were also in accordance with the Monod model. Furthermore, when increasing the iron concentration to 2 mg/l in four different domestic secondary effluent samples, the lipid content and lipid production of Scenedesmus sp. LX1 was improved by 17.4-33.7% and 21.5-41.8%, respectively.

• 생태와환경
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• 제50권2호
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• pp.238-253
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• 2017

하 폐수는 하천과 저수지의 부영양화와 녹조현상에 대한 주요 원인 중의 하나로 잘 알려져 있으며, 또한 잠재적인 열오염의 원인을 제공하지만 온배수 관점에서 연구는 거의 없었다. 본 연구는 2015년 12월부터 2016년의 2월까지 동계에 연접하는 하천에서 온배수의 거동 실태와 수질에 미치는 영향을 파악하고자 생활하수, 산업폐수 및 온천폐수를 대상으로 그 시공간적 특성을 조사하였다. 조사지점은 각 하천에서 상류, 방류구 및 하류의 4개씩 선정하였고, 온배수의 배출지점으로부터 유하거리에 따른 수온 변화를 모니터링 하였다. 하천에서 하 폐수의 온도 영향과 범위는 배출수 온도와 양뿐만 아니라 현장 기온, 수온 및 하천유량에 의존하였다. 하 폐수의 수온 영향은 하천 합류 후 $2.1{\sim}5.8^{\circ}C$ 증가와 1.0~5.5 km까지 관찰되었다. 특히, 온천폐수는 양적으로 적었으나 온도 영향은 가장 컸다. 하 폐수는 온도뿐만 아니라 유기물과 영양염의 증가에도 관련되었다. 산업폐수는 N 계열, 온천폐수는 P N 계열에서 각각 높은 농도로 방류되었다. 이에 대한 차이는 화학적 총인처리의 유 무에 의한 것이었다. 부착조류 Chl-a 함량은 온배수 방류구와 하류구간에서 높았고, 대부분 부영양 수준이었다. 이러한 생태학적 결과는 하천의 높은 수온과 P 농도 때문이었고, 하 폐수의 온배수가 그에 대한 주 원인을 제공하는 것으로 판단되었다. 본 연구의 결과는 하천수질(수온, 비옥도)에 대한 하 폐수의 온배수 영향을 보다 체계화된 시공간적 연구로서 평가할 필요성이 큼을 시사한다.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.353-361
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• 2005

전남지역에 존재하는 9개 하수종말처리장(A, B, C, D, E, F, H, I, J)의 방류수가 배출되는 하천에 대한 방류수의 영향을 알아보기 위해 하천에 대한 생 지표도 평가 및 전 방류수 독성 평가(Whole effluent toxicity test)를 실시하였다. WET 평가와 생지표도 평가는 U.S. EPA 시험 방법과 Ohio EPA wading method에 근거하여 수행하였다. 전 방류수 독성 평가를 위해 표준 시험 종인 S. capricornutum과 D. magna를 사용하였다. 전 방류수 독성 평가결과 모든 지점에서 S. capricornutum 독성이 나타났으며, D. magna 독성 평가 결과에서는 A지점과 J지점을 제외한 모든 지점에서 독성 효과를 보였다. 표준 시험 종의 독성 평가 결과에 따르면 D지점에서 가장 높은 독성을 나타내었고, E지점과 F지점에서도 높은 독성 결과를 나타내었다. 이들 지역에 대한 생지표도 분석 결과 C1과 D1, J1 지점에서 낮은 종의 수 분포를 나타내었으며, A1, C1, E1, H1, J1 지점에서는 대조군 지역이나 타 지역보다 낮은 개체수를 나타내어 방류수로부터 악영향을 받고 있는 것으로 판단되었다. A1, B1, C1, D1, J1지점에서는 낮은 종의 풍부도를 보였으며, 전 방류수 독성 평가 결과에서 가장 높은 독성을 나타내었던 D지점(D1)에서는 오염에 내성이 강한 종이 매우 우점 하는 것으로 나타났다. 전 방류수 독성 평가 및 생물지수 분석결과에 따르면 모든 하천지역에서 방류수에 의한 영향이 나타나고 있는 것을 알 수 있었으며, D. magna와 S. capricornutum의 독성이 같이 나타나는 지점에서는 생 지표도 분석 결과에서도 동일하게 생태계에 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났으며, S. capricornutum만의 독성이 나타나는 지점에서도 생태계의 변화가 나타나고 있었다.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.55-65
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• 1999

AF(anaerobic filter)/BAF(biological aerated filter) system and UASB(upflow anaerobic sludge blanket)/BAF system, of which system effluents were recirculated to the anaerobic reactors in each system, were operated in order to investigate the performance in simultaneous removal of organics and nitrogen in high-strength dairy wastewater. Advanced anaerobic treatment processes of AF and UASB were evaluated on applicability as pre-denitrification reactors, and BAF was also evaluated on the performance in oxidizing the remaining organics and ammonia nitrogen. At system HRTs of 4.0 to 4.5 days and recirculation ratios of one to three, the AF/BAF system could achieve more than 99% of organics removals and 64 to 78% of total nitrogen removals depending upon the recirculation ratio. Although the UASB/BAF system also showed more than 99% of organics removals, total nitrogen removals in the UASB/BAF system were 53 to 66% which are lower than those in the AF/BAF system at the corresponding recirculation ratios. Optimum recirculation ratios considering simultaneous removal of organics and nitrogen and cost-effectiveness, were in the range of two to three. The upflow AF packed with crossflow module media, as a primary treatment of the anaerobic reactor/BAF system, showed better performances in denitrification, SS removals, and gas production than the UASB. Higher loading rate of suspended solids from the UASB increased the backwashing times in the following BAF. Especially, at a recirculation ratio of three in the UASB/BAF system, the increase in head loss due to clogging in the BAF caused frequent backwashing, at least once d day. The BAF showed the high nitrification efficiency of average 99.2% and organics removals more than 90% at organics loading rate less than $1.4KgCOD/m^3/d$ and $COD/NH_3-N$ ratio less than 6.4. It was proved that the simplified anaerobic reactor/BAF system could maximize the organics removal and achieve high nitrogen removal efficiencies through recirculation of system effluents to the anaerobic reactor. The AF/BAF system can, especially, be a cost effective and competitive alternative for the simultaneous removal of organics ana nitrogen from wastewaters.

• 환경위생공학
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.119-130
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• 2007

Sea food wastewater including high concentration of organics and nutrients is hard to treat stably by established traditional activated sludge process. This research is aimed to obey more and more of strengthened the law and to secure stable effluents by using advanced treatment process applied membrane filter in aeration tank for treatment of wastewater from marine products. It must maintain pH of influent over 6.0 to keep up stably biological sludge of advanced treatment process. At 38hr of HRT, removal rates of TBOD and TCOD were 99.9% and 99.4% respectively and TSS also removed with high efficiency. Most organics in the effluent was constituted with soluble type materials, it caused that membrane filter installed aeration tank should remove minute suspended particles. The reactor was operated well to get stable treatment results for operation period, in spite of high loading of organics like that $0.67{\sim}1.67\;kgTBOD/m^3/day$ of organics loading and $0.10{\sim}0.21\;kgBOD_5/kgMLSS/day$ of F/M ratio. At $36{\sim}48hr$ of HRT, removal rates of T-N and T-P were $89.7{\sim}90.7%\;and\;91.5{\sim}96.0%$ respectively. It means this treatment process also work to remove nutrients of high concentration. Upon investigation of advanced treatment's operation factors, optimum SRT was about 30days and average SNR that showed tendency to increase according to increase water temperature was calculated 0.014 gN/g MLVSS/d. SDNR was risen in conformity to increase F/M ratio of Non-aeration tank and investigated as $0.038{\sim}0.051\;gN/gMLVSS/d$.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.943-951
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• 2006

Spatial distribution of water pollution in the Gap Stream was investigated from October to November, 2005. Sampling was conducted three times including effluents discharged from a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) and a dam reservoir during the low-flow period. As a typical urban stream, total nitrogen and inorganic nitrogen concentrations increased toward downstream. Ammonia concentration was the highest in the treated water of the wastewater treatment plant and the lowest nitrate concentration was found in the effluent of the dam reservoir. A part of soluble reactive phosphorous (SRP) in total phosphorous was 22~54% in the upstream reach of WWTP in the Gap Stream whereas 68~73% in the downstream reach. Mean chlorophyll-a concentration ranged from 1.6 to $11.0{\mu}g/L$ and it tends to increase toward downstream except for WWTP effluent. As expected, untreated wastewater and WWTP effluent were suggested as the major sources of water pollution in the Gap Stream. In this study, the water pollution of the Gap Stream is a significant undergoing typical eutrophication, caused by excessive phosphorus and nitrogen nutrients from WWTP located in the watershed. As a result, the critical factor for the water pollution was evaluated to dissolved inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus nutrients. Particularly, SRP is a most important for the eutrophication. It suggest that may occur in the most urban streams of Korean peninsula. Therefore, because the necessity of water pollution management in the urban stream, inorganic N and P nutrients should be included as an essential component of water quality criteria in the advanced water quality project of Korean Government by enforcing of water quality assessment and total maximum daily loads (TMDLs).

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.133-142
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• 2022

Natural organic matter (NOM) is a heterogeneous mixture of organic matter with various polarities and molecular weights in an aquatic environment. This study investigated the effects of separation conditions (resin volume, organic matter, etc.) and the repeated use of the resin for the fractionation of organic components in the DAX resin fractionation method. The distribution characteristics of the organic components ((hydrophilic [Hi], hydrophobic acid [HoA], and hydrophobic neutral [HoN]) under the derived fractionation conditions were also analyzed. Constant fractionation results (i.e. HoA/Hi ratio) were obtained in the column capacity factor (i.e. the packed resin volume) in the range of 50 to 100. The resin-packed column maintained constant separation efficiency for up to two repeated uses. The above conditions were applied to wastewater and stream water samples (before and after rainfall). The results showed that the concentration of organic matter in the wastewater effluent was 2-15 times lower with an increased ratio of hydrophilicity to hydrophobicity (i.e. Ho/Hi) compared to the influent depending on the industrial wastewater classification. Particularly, HoN was found to have a high content distribution, 10.2-50.4% of the total dissolved organic matter (DOM), in the effluents. For the stream water, the content of Hi or HoN increased significantly after rainfall, suggesting a correlation with the distribution characteristics of pollutants from the stream watershed. The results provide useful data to enhance the reliability of the DAX resin fractionation and its application to environmental samples.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.59-79
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• 2022

Conventional wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) do not fully remove micropollutants. Enhanced treatment of sewage effluents is being considered or implemented in some countries to minimize the discharge of problematic micropollutants from WWTPs. Representative enhanced sewage treatment technologies for micropollutant removal were reviewed, including their current status of research and development. Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) such as ozonation and UV/H₂O₂ and adsorption processes using powdered (PAC) and granular activated carbon (GAC) were mainly discussed with focusing on process principles for the micropollutant removal, effect of process operation and water matrix factors, and technical and economic feasibility. Pilot- and full-scale studies have shown that ozonation, PAC, and GAC can achieve significant elimination of various micropollutants at economically feasible costs(0.16-0.29 €/m³). Considering the current status of domestic WWTPs, ozonation and PAC were found to be the most feasible options for the enhanced sewage effluent treatment. Although ozonation and PAC are all mature technologies, a range of technical aspects should be considered for their successful application, such as energy consumption, CO₂ emission, byproduct or waste generation, and ease of system construction/operation/maintenance. More feasibility studies considering domestic wastewater characteristics and WWTP conditions are required to apply ozonation or PAC/GAC adsorption process to enhance sewage effluent treatment in Korea.

• 한국해안해양공학회지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.149-155
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• 2000

마산만의 오염물질 수지변화를 파악하여 하수처리장 건설 효과를 정량적으로 분석하였다. 하수처리장 건설에 의한 유역의 오염부하량 삭감효과는 명확한 것으로 추정되었으나, 해역의 수질개선에 미치는 영향은 그에 상응하는 오염부하량 증가로 인하여 뚜렷하게 효과를 보이고 있지 않은 것으로 추정되었다. 하수처리장 건설에 의한 마산만(I 영역)의 오염부하량 삭감효과는 COD, SS, TN, TP 항목의 경우 각각 17.6%, 68.9%, 66.7%, 38%에 해당된다. 반면, 진해만 북부 방류해역(II 영역)은 하수처리장 방류수의 직접적인 오염부하와 오염된 퇴적물에 의한 용출부하(간접적인 효과)가 가중되고 있다. 따라서, 하수처리장 건설로 인하여 방류해역의 환경은 오히려 악화되어 가고 있는 것으로 파악되었다.