title: Tertiary treatment of textile wastewater with combined media biological aerated filter (CMBAF) at different hydraulic loadings and dissolved oxygen concentrations.
abstract: An up-flow biological aerated filter packed with two layers media was employed for tertiary treatment of textile wastewater secondary effluent. Under steady state conditions, good performance of the reactor was achieved and the average COD, NH(4)(+)-N and total nitrogen (TN) in the effluent were 31, 2 and 8mg/L, respectively. For a fixed dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration, an increase of hydraulic loading resulted in a decrease in substrate removal. With the increase of hydraulic loadings from 0.13 to 0.78m(3)/(m(2)h), the removal efficiencies of COD, NH(4)(+)-N and TN all decreased, which dropped from 52 to 38%, from 90 to 68% and from 45 to 33%, respectively. In addition, the results also confirmed that the increase of COD and NH(4)(+)-N removal efficiencies resulted from the increase of DO concentrations, but this variation trend was not observed for TN removal. With the increase of DO concentrations from 2.4 to 6.1mg/L, the removal efficiencies of COD and NH(4)(+)-N were 39-53% and 64-88%, whenas TN removal efficiencies increased from 39 to 42% and then dropped to 35%.
authors.affiliation: College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Dongying, PR China. liufangfw@163.com
authors.forename: Fang
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Chao-Cheng
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Dong-Feng
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Guo-Hua
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D017666:Deuterium Oxide / Q000737:chemistry; D005374:Filtration; D007220:Industrial Waste / Q000032:analysis*; D009584:Nitrogen / Q000737:chemistry; D010100:Oxygen / Q000737:chemistry*; D000644:Quaternary Ammonium Compounds / Q000737:chemistry; D013783:Textile Industry; D014865:Waste Disposal, Fluid
chemical_list: D007220:Industrial Waste; D000644:Quaternary Ammonium Compounds; D017666:Deuterium Oxide; D009584:Nitrogen; D010100:Oxygen