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| Author(s): |
Romeu Francisco Gadotti
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Carlos. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2003-12-11 |
| Examining board members: |
Luiz Antonio Daniel;
Sidney Seckler Ferreira Filho;
Flávio Rubens Lapolli;
Jurandyr Povinelli;
Marco Antonio Penalva Reali
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| Advisor: | Luiz Antonio Daniel |
| Abstract | |
This work had as purpose the assessment of the technical and economical viability of ozonization process\' use followed by submerged aerated biofilter, for improvement of the quality of effluent of anaerobic baffed reactor, to attend the environmental legislation in what it refers to the emission pattern and reuse guidelines. The research was divided in three faces. In the first face it was evaluated the concentration of ozone applied and its time of contact through a factorial planning and response surface methodology. In the second face, tests of isotherms were made as choice criterion for the type of granulate activated carbon used as material support of the submerged aerated biofilter. In the third face the post-treatment system composed by ozone - submerged aerated biofilter was operated for assessment of your performance and a comparison with the patterns and reuse criteria. In the first face two conductions of greater performance were found: one with 10 mg O3/L and 30 min and other with 30 mg O3/L and 10 min. The second face was prejudiced in function of the effluent ozonizated to have floculated, with that interfering in the isotherm test. In the third faces two submerged aerated biofilters were built, one with granulate activated carbon and other with polyurethane foam as material supports. The BFs presented effluent with excellent final quality. The BFs with GAC demonstrated to be the most efficient among the two, it had faster stabilization and it produced final effluent with COD of the order of 14,3 mg/L and TSS of 6,8 mg/L. The cost of the post-treatment was around in R$ 0,25 for cubic meter for 10.000 persons and R$ 0,16 for 200.000 persons, demonstrating viable technique and economically of process. The agricultural reuse becomes interesting, because the final effluent presents phosphorus and nitrate that can be consumed by the plants. (AU) | |