Feasibility of Sludge Ozonation for Stabilization and Conditioning

A pilot-scale sludge treatment plant was built to investigate the feasibility of ozonation processes for waste activated sludge treatment. Ozonation of wastewater sludge resulted in mass reduction by mineralization as well as by supernatant and filtrate recycle. Another advantage of sludge ozonation is a significant improvement of settleability and dewaterability. Experimental results showed that mass reduction of 70% and volume reduction of 85% compared with the control sludge was achieved through the sludge ozonation at a dose of 0.5?gO₃/gDS. It is also interesting to note that the filterability deteriorates up to ozone dose of 0.2?gO₃/gDS and then improves considerably at a higher ozone dose. The filterability could be improved by chemical conditioning even at a low ozone dose. The economic feasibility by cost analysis reveals that ozonation processes can be more economical than other alternative processes for sludge treatment and disposal at small-sized wastewater treatment plants.     

Effect of Media on Biofilter Performance Following Ozonation of Secondary Treated Municipal Wastewater Effluent: Sand vs. GAC

Ozone has been shown to be effective in the transformation of several chemicals of emerging concern that escape the wastewater treatment process, but there is concern whether toxic transformation products are formed. Two parallel biofilter columns with granular activated carbon (GAC) and filter sand following a pilot-scale ozone unit to treat secondary treated municipal wastewater were studied. Results show reduced wastewater genotoxicity following ozonation and further reduction following biofiltration. The BAC biofilter outperformed the sand biofilter in terms of reduction in both organics and genotoxicity. Biofilter performance correlated with biological indicators (dissolved oxygen reduction and effluent E. coli counts) but not with ATP bioactivity measurements. Limited bacterial (E. coli) regrowth was observed in treated effluent from both biofilters.     

The Study on the Ceramic Membrane Wastewater Reuse System with Pre-Ozonation and Coagulation

A new wastewater reuse system using ozonation, coagulation and MF ceramic membrane (0.1 μm) filtration was developed. The testing was performed using secondary effluent treated at the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Tokyo, Japan. The volume of treated water by the pilot study equipment is about 90 m³/day. The combination of pre-ozonation and coagulation processes achieves continuous stable membrane filtration with flux of 4m³/m²/day (167 LMH). A stable membrane filtration could be maintained by controlling ozone dosing rate depending on secondary effluent (raw water) quality fluctuation. The COD (Mn) removal ratio in raw water was 50 to 60%, and the color removal ratio satisfied 80% or higher. The quality of the treated water that was obtained from our pilot study was better than the California's standards.     

基于微滤膜和撞击流的臭氧氧化废液反应器的优化设计

优化设计了基于微滤膜和撞击流技术的臭氧氧化废液的反应器,提高了臭氧氧化废液的利用率。利用微滤膜管的孔径和压力特点,优化了反应器内部互为撞击的两相物质的运动轨迹。在撞击前使两相物质变成微米级颗粒,实现臭氧与废液的全方位充分接触,从而提高氧化效果和臭氧的利用率,降低了废液的处理成本。实验表明,在短时间内降解率可达95%。     

Improvement of Biodegradability of Oil Field Drilling Wastewater Using Ozone

The possibility of improving the biodegradability of drilling wastewater using ozone was investigated following coagulation pretreatment. The biodegradability of wastewater was improved significantly following the start of ozonation, and the molecular weight of organic compounds decreased continuously with the progress of oxidation. It is interesting that minimum biochemical oxygen demand, total organic carbon (BOD/TOC) ratio (0.4 g/g) was observed when wastewater was treated with ozone continuously for 15 min. The combination of ozonation for 5 min (ozone consumption ratio of 2.6 g ozone/g TOC) followed by biological degradation produced a total TOC removal rate of 54.3%, which was comparable to direct ozonation for 30 min under the same conditions (TOC removal rate of 54.9%; ozone consumption ratio of 8.7 g ozone/g TOC). It is clear that biological treatment following short-term ozonation was very efficient in TOC removal. A process of successive coagulation-precipitation, ozone oxidation, and biodegradation seemed to be a good option for drilling wastewater treatment.     

臭氧处理硅清洗废水的研究

探讨了臭氧应用于硅清洗废水的处理中,单独臭氧氧化及协同氧化预处理硅清洗废水的试验方法,对不同清洗废水的处理效果。结果表明,臭氧对硅清洗废水的COD_(Cr)降低有良好的效果。单独臭氧氧化时,COD_(Cr)的去除率达54.69%;臭氧与H_2O_2协同氧化时,COD_(Cr)的去除率达72.3%。     

Sludge Ozonation and its Application to a New Advanced Wastewater Treatment Process with Sludge Disintegration

The applicability of sludge ozonation on wastewater treatment processes was investigated to reduce the amount of excess sludge without losing phosphorus removal efficiency. Solubilization degree per ozone consumption for general sludge was in the range from 2.4 to 5.8 gSS/O₃ and from 4.1 to 7.7 gCOD/gO₃. Around 80 to 90% of solubilized organics was biodegradable at a solubilization degree of 0.3. Based on the experimental results, a lab-scale plant with sludge ozonation and phosphorus crystallization was constructed to investigate the treatment performance. Amount of excess sludge was reduced by 93% with almost complete removal of soluble BOD and phosphorus removal efficiency of more than 80%. The percentage of the effluent COD_Cr discharge increased from 10% to 14–17% after installing ozonation and crystallization because of the formation of non-biodegradable organic substances in ozonation process. Energy consumption of the innovative advanced process is comparable or can be even smaller than that of the conventional anaerobic/oxic (A/O) process in spite of the installation of ozonation and crystallization.     

A comparison between catalytic ozonation and activated carbon adsorption/ozone-regeneration processes for wastewater treatment

Two methods based on the use of granular activated carbon (GAC) and ozone to remove organic compounds from water have been investigated. Both methods have been applied to degrade an aqueous solution of gallic acid and a secondary effluent from a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). One of the methods, namely catalytic ozonation, implies simultaneous ozonation and adsorption onto GAC. This process takes advantage of the oxidizing power of ozone and the adsorption capacity of GAC but also of the catalytic transformation of ozone into secondary oxidants on the GAC surface. The efficiency of catalytic ozonation was compared to those of single adsorption and single ozonation. It was found that the catalytic process highly improves the conversion of total organic carbon (TOC) and makes a more efficient use of ozone than the single ozonation process. To illustrate the reusability of the catalyst, the GAC was reused four times through a series of consecutive experiments. No loss of catalytic activity was observed when treating the WWTP effluent but some deactivation could be appreciated when treating the aqueous solution of gallic acid. This deactivation could be attributed to some porosity destruction and surface oxidation produced as a result of reactions of aqueous ozone on the GAC surface. The other method investigated is an adsorption-regeneration process (namely GAC/O₃-regeneration) that comprises two steps: dynamic adsorption onto GAC and further regeneration of the spent GAC with gaseous ozone. The adsorption stage of the GAC/O₃-regeneration experiments was carried out in a continuous flow adsorption column and breakthrough curves were obtained. It was observed that the GAC used in this work adsorbed gallic acid very efficiently but exhibited limited capacity to remove chemical oxygen demand (COD) from the WWTP effluent. The optimum ozone dose to regenerate the spent GAC after gallic acid adsorption was found to be about 0.4 g O₃/g GAC, with results showing around 90% regeneration efficiency. As a result of incomplete regeneration, the GAC adsorption capacity progressively decreased with the number of adsorption–regeneration cycles. The GAC/O₃-regeneration method was not successful at treating the WWTP effluent as low adsorption uptake was observed. Moreover, the GAC became damaged after regeneration because of excessive oxidation of its surface.     

Improving the Biodegradation of Organic Pollutants with Ozonation during Biological Wastewater Treatment

Pre-ozonation is often used to enhance the biodegradability of recalcitrant compounds prior to biological treatment of wastewater. A usual shortcoming of such an approach is wasting ozone on other compounds that are already biodegradable. This research followed a groundbreaking approach of degrading a recalcitrant substance with ozone during biological treatment. Two parallel bench-top activated sludge processes were fed a synthetic wastewater containing typical biodegradable substances and also methylene blue at 5 mg/L. Ozone was applied continuously and directly into one of the activated sludge units at 17 mg/L based on inflow rate. The methylene blue was removed by 95%?in the ozonated process compared with just 40%?removal in the non-ozonated control. The removal in the activated sludge without ozonation was demonstrated to be mainly due to biosorption. The ozone oxidation reaction by-products were analyzed using GC-MS on volatile substances collected in the headspace above ozonated samples of methylene blue and most found to be biodegradable. These by-products are expected to be degraded and assimilated in the same process unit together with the other biodegradables in the feed stream by the activated sludge process. The reaction rate with organic substances depleted the dissolved ozone at such a rate that the inactivation of the treatment bacteria (and protozoa) was minimal, mostly affecting the filamentous bacteria. A concern that ozone, as a powerful disinfectant, could inhibit or kill the beneficial bacteria in the activated sludge process was proven to be incorrect.     

Ozonation of Animal Wastes Containing Oxytetracycline

The efficiency of ozonation on the degradation of oxytetracycline, a veterinary antibiotic, has been investigated in both cow manure and synthetic animal feeding operation wastewater at varying experimental conditions. With a rapid degradation of antibiotic in synthetic wastewater, ozonation improved its biodegradability and eliminated bacterial toxicity caused by oxytetracycline. The degradation rate of oxytetracycline depended on pH and applied ozone dose, but not initial antibiotic concentration in wastewater. In the case of manure treatment, ozonation efficiency in terms of oxytetracycline degradation was negatively affected by moisture and antibiotic content of manure. The degradation rate of oxytetracycline in manure slowed down upon the extension of treatment time since ozone could not react with strongly adsorbed antibiotic on manure. Increase in humic and fulvic acid carbon and mineral nitrogen content was an indicator for the improvement of fertilizing value of manure by ozonation.     

Ozone as a Pretreatment Method for Antibiotic Contaminated Wastewater and Sludge

ABSTRACT

The capability of ozone to reduce the hazardous impact of environmentally persistent antibiotic tiamulin in term of toxicity reduction and enhancement of biodegradability was investigated. Different ozone doses were applied but ozonation was not effective enough to increase the biodegradability of tiamulin in the aqueous phase. The opposite effect was observed in anaerobic digestion experiments, where ozonation as a pretreatment step of antibiotic-contaminated sludge detoxify tiamulin and improves biogas production for 75%. As confirmed by ¹H NMR and HPLC-HRMS analyses, the tiamulin molecule completely reacts with ozone at low ozone/COD molar ratio of 0.03, primarily attacking the vinyl double bond with further oxidation of sulfur and nitrogen atom, and gradual decomposition of tiamulin skeleton.     

Removal of Dissolved Organic Carbon and Color from Dyeing Wastewater by Pre-Ozonation and Subsequent Biological Treatment Using Test-Scale Plant

The effects of pre-ozonation and subsequent biological treatment process on the decrease in dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and color were investigated in a test-scale plant of 5 m³/d capacity using actual raw wastewater (RW) from a dye works. Ozone dosage rate and contacting time were around 70 mg/L on average and 30 min, respectively. The DOC concentration was gradually decreased from 36.1 to 19.3 mg/L on average through the process and the DOC removal rates were 24.4% after ozonation and 46.5% after subsequent biological treatment. The average color value was rapidly decreased from 1.75 to 0.20 after ozonation, and the color removal rate was 88.6%. The values of adsorbable organic halide formation potential (AOXFP) and trihalomethane formation potential (THMFP) were gradually decreased by each treatment process, indicating the increased safety of the treated water. Slight morphological differences due to decomposition of the predominant bacteria by residual ozone were observed. The DOC removal rate brought about by pre-ozonation was slightly higher than that by the process consisted of biological treatment and post-ozonation, although no obvious difference in the color removal was observed between them.     

Wastewater Ozonation in the U.S.A. – History and Current Status - 1989

Wastewater ozonation has achieved its widest application in the United States of America in the past ten years. Many U.S. facilities designed in the 1970s have manifested significant operational and maintenance problems with the first generation application of ozone technology to wastewater treatment. These problems are reviewed and solutions recommended. The second generation facilities of the 1980s demonstrate higher levels of efficiency, reliability, and operability. The broad application of ozonation to wastewater treatment in the United States of America (U.S.) in the 1970s was carried out with little or no reference to the prior experience of the applications of ozone in the field of drinking water treatment attained in Europe.     

臭氧技术处理化学镀镍废水的研究

采用臭氧技术处理化学镀镍废水。研究了废水初始pH值、通气流量、臭氧发生器电流、反应时间、废水中初始镍的质量浓度等因素对臭氧化处理效果的影响,并探索了臭氧-离子交换树脂组合工艺的处理效果。结果表明:臭氧处理可有效地降低化学镀镍废水中镍的质量浓度;在臭氧投加量为2.17 g/L的条件下,镍的去除率可达99.5%;采用臭氧-离子交换树脂组合工艺处理化学镀镍废水,出水中残余镍的质量浓度低于0.1 mg/L,满足排放标准的要求。     

城市污水处理厂的污泥臭氧化减量技术

针对城市污水处理厂产生大量的污泥,综述了臭氧化污泥减量技术的国外研究成果,介绍并讨论了臭氧化污泥减量的原理、污泥减量效率与臭氧剂量的关系、臭氧化污泥回流对污水处理运行效果及对污泥沉降脱水性能的影响,对臭氧化污泥减量技术进行经济评估,表明臭氧化污泥减量技术具有广泛的应用价值。     

Ozone treatment process for the removal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in wastewater

This study investigated the degradability of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) by ozonation for the treatment of secondary effluent of a municipal wastewater treatment plant. A set of experiments were conducted in a laboratory using a pilot-scale process consisting of three flow-through reactors in series, by varying the ozone dose (1–9 mg L^?1), the hydraulic retention time (5–15 min), and the concentration of ozone injected into the reactors (14–42 mg L^?1). Thirty-seven PPCPs were detected in the secondary effluent, which belongs to the use categories of antibiotics, analgesics, antiarrhythmic agents, anticonvulsants, vasodilators, lipid modifying agents, anti-itch drugs, anti-psychotic drugs, insect repellents, bronchodilators, diuretics, peptic ulcer drugs, NMDA receptor antagonists, antifungal drugs, antimicrobial drugs, and antineoplastic agents. These PPCPs were broadly classified into five groups ranging from “sensitive” to ozone (O₃) or “unstable” in the ozonation process, to the group of “insensitive” to O₃ or “very stable” in the ozonation process. These groups are based on the PPCP concentrations after the ozone treatment and their limit of detection (LOD). Furthermore, this study examined comparatively the effects of the ozone dose, the retention (reaction) time, and the concentration of O₃ supplied to the reactors on the degradability of the PPCPs.     

The Effects of Ozonation,Biological Filtration and Distribution on the Concentration of Easily Assimilable Organic Carbon (AOC) in Drinking Water

The concentration of easily assimilable organic carbon (AOC) as determined with growth measurements using wo bacterial cultures, increased linearly with ozone dosage at values below 1 mg O₃/mg of C. Moreover, a linear relationship was found between AOC increase and the decrease of UV absorbance of water after ozonation with various dosages. Biological filtration in water treatment reduced AOC concentrations, but the remaining values were above the AOC concentration before ozonation. This AOC removal was attended with an increased colony count in the filtrate. The AOC concentration of drinking water produced by the application of ozone in water treatment decreased during distribution. The greatest decrease was observed with the highest AOC concentration. Also in this situation, the highest colony counts were found. To date, ozonation is applied in seven water treatment plants in the Netherlands.     

Comparative Study of Ozonation Conditions in Wastewater Tertiary Treatment

A great number of studies have been performed dealing with the use of ozone in the tertiary treatment of wastewaters in both laboratory and pilot plant scales. As each study had its own particular experimental conditions, the use of ozone is one of the only common parts of these studies. Some of the different results obtained may be explained upon examination of the phenomena. A standard pilot plant adapted to ozonation purposes is described so that the study of parameters for guide–lines for process automatization becomes easier. Generally, the choice of feed gas for the ozone generators has been determined on the basis of economics. However, it is interesting to note the influence of such gas not only on the ozone concentration but also on the classical wastewater parameters. Since comparisons are possible, a better understanding of the reactions and a better economical point of view are obtained in the treatment of wastewaters with ozone.     

OZONATION TREATMENT OF 2-NITROPHENOLIC WASTEWATER USING A NEW GAS-INDUCING REACTOR

Ozonation is a potential chemical process for the treatment of nitrophenolic wastewater. However, due to the low solubility and utilization rate of ozone, a conventional gas-inducing reactor for ozonation treatment has limited app-lication for treating phenolic wastewater. In this study, 2-nitrophenol wastewater ozonation was conducted in a new gas-inducing reactor that has been investigated in our laboratory over the past few years. The ozonation conducted in this reactor can be operated with a higher ozone utilization rate and lower power consumption than a conventional gas-liquid reactor. The ozone utilization rate increases with increasing pH value and can be maintained at over 95%. Kinetic studies show that a pseudo first-order reaction model derived from a two-film theory can describe the ozonation of 2-nitrophenol. Kinetic study of 2-nitrophenol ozonation shows that there are two stages in 2-nitrophenol ozonation. The observed rate constant in the second stage of 2-nitrophenol ozonation is higher than the first stage. A change in the 2-nitrophenol concentration is responsible for the change in the observed rate constant. Below pH 7, the oxidation rate of 2-nitrophenol increases with increasing pH and increasing ozone inlet concentration. This new gas-inducing reactor can improve the ozone utilization rate. The ozonation of 2-nitrophenol can be effectively conducted in this reactor.     

Investigation into Ozonation of Coal Coking Processing Wastewater for Cyanide,Thiocyanate and Organic Removal

A laboratory investigation was carried out to establish whether ozonation could be used to oxidize cyanides, thiocyanates and color in wastewater from a coal coking plant to supplement biological and activated carbon treatment (GAC). Ozonation was found to be capable of oxidizing cyanide and cyanate to sufficiently low levels at relatively high stoichiometric ratios as a result of competitive ozone consumption by organic substances in the wastewater. While good color removal was also achieved with ozonation, organic removal could not match GAC in overall organic removal. Ozonation was not found to be economical for the remaining nine years of a build, own, operate and transfer (BOOT) contract period. Ozonation would be competitive over longer operational periods and more environmentally friendly than presently used technology.