title: Removal of organic compounds during treating printing and dyeing wastewater of different process units.
abstract: Wastewater in Shaoxing wastewater treatment plant (SWWTP) is composed of more than 90% dyeing and printing wastewater with high pH and sulfate. Through a combination process of anaerobic acidogenic [hydraulic retention time (HRT) of 15h], aerobic (HRT of 20h) and flocculation-precipitation, the total COD removal efficiency was up to 91%. But COD removal efficiency in anaerobic acidogenic unit was only 4%. As a comparison, the COD removal efficiency was up to 35% in the pilot-scale upflow anaerobic sludge bed (UASB) reactor (HRT of 15h). GC-MS analysis showed that the response abundance of these wastewater samples decreased with their removal of COD. A main component of the raw influent was long-chain n-alkanes. The final effluent of SWWTP had only four types of alkanes. After anaerobic unit at SWWTP, the mass percentage of total alkanes to total organic compounds was slightly decreased while its categories increased. But in the UASB, alkanes categories could be removed by 75%. Caffeine as a chemical marker could be detected only in the effluent of the aerobic process. Quantitative analysis was given. These results demonstrated that GC-MS analysis could provide an insight to the measurement of organic compounds removal.
authors.affiliation: College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China. wangjin100@sjtu.edu.cn
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Long
authors.forename: Z J
authors.initials: ZJ
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: L N
authors.initials: LN
authors.lastname: Chi
authors.forename: X L
authors.initials: XL
authors.lastname: Qiao
authors.forename: H X
authors.initials: HX
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Z F
authors.initials: ZF
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D004396:Coloring Agents / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D007220:Industrial Waste; D009930:Organic Chemicals / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000302:isolation & purification*
chemical_list: D004396:Coloring Agents; D007220:Industrial Waste; D009930:Organic Chemicals; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical