title: Treatment of rainwater runoff in recovery and recycling companies: Lab and pilot-scale testing.
abstract: Wastewater released from the storage and/or processing of recycling and materials recovery can be characterised as rainwater runoff. Recuperation and recycling companies are confronted with wastewater that has a very fluctuating flow rate and composition. The flow rate mainly depends on the amount of rainfall while the composition additionally depends on what is currently stored on site. An analysis of possible physical-chemical treatment (coagulation/flocculation, sand filtration, activated carbon filtration and sedimentation) methods was performed at two different recycling companies in order to find a robust and economical feasible water treatment system that meets the discharge limits at all times. A violation of some measurement values (Cd, Cr, Ni and acenaphthene) after coagulation/flocculation occurred, which could be further reduced by using sand filtration. Good removal is achieved for common parameters as for mono- and poly-aromatic hydrocarbons (MAH and PAH) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB). Applying a coupled sand- and activated carbon filtration on runoff resulted in a removal of over 80% of several measurement values (suspended solids, heavy metals). This clearly indicates the applicability of the physical-chemical treatment techniques.
authors: Research Group EnBiChem, University College West Flanders, Kortrijk, Belgium.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Chys
authors: V
authors: V
authors: Depuydt
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Boeckaert
authors: S W H
authors: SW
authors: Van Hulle
mesh_terms: D005374:Filtration / Q000379:methods; D005427:Flocculation; D008670:Metals / Q000032:analysis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011078:Polychlorinated Biphenyls / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011084:Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011891:Rain; D059027:Recycling; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000032:analysis* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D018508:Water Purification / Q000379:methods*; D014934:Wood
chemical_list: D008670:Metals; D011084:Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical; D011078:Polychlorinated Biphenyls