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Advanced treatment of wastewater from an ethylene chemical enterprise by a biological aerated filter-ultrafiltration-reverse osmosis process

  • Harbin Institute of Technology
  • Liaoning Academy of Environmental Sciences
  • University of Science and Technology Liaoning

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Abstract

This work focused on the advanced treatment of the secondary treated ethylene chemical plant effluent, which contained high conductivity and high organic concentration. To reduce the cost and improve operation stability, a biological aerated filter-ultrafiltration-reverse osmosis (BAF-UF-RO) process was proposed. The feasibility and effectiveness of the BAF loaded with a novel non-sintered fly-ash ceramsite (NSFC) as pretreatment method were investigated in detail. The results showed that the COD, turbidity, NH3-N and SDI15 in the effluent from the BAF were reduced largely. The BAF-UF-RO process was stable with the recovery rate of 75%, and the desalination rate was up to about 97.5%. Moreover, the operating pressure and backwash frequency of RO maintained 0.94-0.98 MPa and 2 times/d, respectively. After continuous operation for four months, there appeared to be no need for chemical cleaning of the RO membrane.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Environmental Technologies
Pages1673-1678
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event2013 2nd International Conference on Energy and Environmental Protection, ICEEP 2013 - Guilin, China
Duration: 19 Apr 201321 Apr 2013

Publication series

NameAdvanced Materials Research
Volume726-731
ISSN (Print)1022-6680

Conference

Conference2013 2nd International Conference on Energy and Environmental Protection, ICEEP 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityGuilin
Period19/04/1321/04/13

Keywords

  • Biological aerated filter
  • Desalination rate
  • Non-sintered fly-ash ceramsite
  • Reverse osmosis

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