title: Studies on the integration of nanofiltration and soil treatment for municipal effluent reclamation as a groundwater supplement.
abstract: Water shortage leads to increasing attention to artificial groundwater recharge by reclaimed water. An injection well is the most common recharge approach. In this paper, a new kind of integrated technology-short-term vadose soil treatment followed by nanofiltration-is recommended as pretreatment for artificial groundwater recharge by an injection well. Laboratory-scale experiments demonstrate that the short-term vadose soil can remove approximately 30% of the total dissolved organic carbon (DOC) content and 40% of dissolved organic matter with a molecular weight less than 1 kDa. As a compensatory process of soil treatment, nanofiltration offers a favorable desalination and additional organics removal. The removal efficiencies for total dissolved solids and conductivity amount to 45 and 48%, respectively. The residual DOC in the final effluent is below 1.0 mg/L. In addition, short-term vadose soil offers effective elimination of aromatic protein-like and polysaccharide-like substances, which are detected as components of the membrane foulant.
authors.affiliation: Division of Environmental Science & Technology, Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, PR China.
authors.forename: Wu
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Linlin
authors.forename: Zhao
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Xuan
authors.forename: Zhang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Meng
mesh_terms: D005374:Filtration; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D012987:Soil / Q000032:analysis*; D013997:Time Factors; D014865:Waste Disposal, Fluid / Q000379:methods*; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry*; D018508:Water Purification / Q000379:methods; D014881:Water Supply
chemical_list: D012987:Soil; D014867:Water