title: Evaluation of membrane bioreactor for advanced treatment of industrial wastewater and reverse osmosis pretreatment.
abstract: The evaluation of a membrane bioreactor (MBR) for pretreatment of reverse osmosis (RO) in order to reuse and reclamation of industrial town wastewater treatment plant was investigated in this study. Performance of MBR effluent through water quality in term of parameters such as chemical oxygen demand (COD), total suspended solids (TSS), total nitrogen (TN) and total coliform (TC) were measured. Also Silt density index (SDI) was used as indicator for RO feed water. The results of this study demonstrated that MBR produce a high quality permeate water. Approximately 75%, 98%, 74% and 99.9% removal of COD, TSS, TN and TC were recorded, respectively. Also SDI of the permeate effluent from membrane was below 3 for most of the times. It means that pilot yield a high quality treated effluent from the membrane module which can be used as RO feed water.
authors.affiliation: Graduate Faculty of Environment, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. hosseinzadeh_m@ut.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Majid
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hosseinzadeh
authors.forename: Gholamreza Nabi
authors.initials: GN
authors.lastname: Bidhendi
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Torabian
authors.forename: Naser
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mehrdadi