Full text
| |
| Author(s): |
Sandro Xavier de Campos
Total Authors: 1
|
| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Carlos. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2004-12-10 |
| Examining board members: |
Eny Maria Vieira;
Luiz Di Bernardo;
Eduardo Fausto de Almeida Neves;
Ana Maria de Guzzi Plepis;
André Henrique Rosa
|
| Advisor: | Eny Maria Vieira |
| Abstract | |
The present thesis deals with the influence of humic substances (HS) on coagulation, flocculation and sedimentation tests for water treatment. These substances were extracted from peat, had different molecular weight and were used for the preparation of water with 100 ± 5 uH color. Characterizations of HS were performed by the following techniques ultra filtration (UF), elemental analysis (EA), ultraviolet/ visible (UV/Vis), infrared (IF), C13 nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR of C13) and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR). Such characterizations showed that fractions of smaller molecular weight (30 - 100 kDa and < 30 kDa) obtained by UF presented a higher concentration of groups containing oxygen, while the fraction with the largest molecular weight (>100 kDa) and the one containing all the molecular weight together (filtered only in membrane with pore size of 0,45 μm) presented a higher concentration of aromatic groupings. It was also possible to verify that in the fractions with smaller molecular weight (30 - 100 kDa e <30 kDa) the percentage of fulvic acids was higher than the one of humic acids . However the opposite occurred of larger molecular weight (>100 kDa and filtered in membrane with pore size of 0,45 μm). The tests of coagulation, flocculation and sedimentation conducted with waters prepared with different fractions of different molecular weight showed that the larger the molecular weight, the easier the coagulation, flocculation and sedimentation, resulting in higher efficiency in the removal of the apparent color. The coagulation diagrams obtained for aluminum sulphate (Al2(SO4)3 .14,3 H2O) showed that independently of the molecular weight, the region with optimum pH for coagulation was between 6 and 7 and the removal of the apparent color increased with the decrease in the sedimentation velocity (Vs= 3,0, 1,5 e 0,5 cm/min). Due to the decrease in the molecular weight there was as increase in the dosage of Al2(SO4)3 .14,3 H2O necessary to obtain curves of the removal of the apparent color similar to the ones obtained with the water prepared with the fraction of the largest molecular weight (> 100 kDa). Tests of coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation and filtration showed good reproducibility in relation to the results of removal of apparent color, obtained for the construction of coagulation diagrams. After filtration it was possible to verify that the values of apparent color were not detected by the technique of color measurement utilized for all the waters studied, except for the water prepared with the fraction of the smallest molecular weight (< 30 kDa). It was possible concluded that the smaller the molecular weight, the higher the percentage of present fulvic acids and the higher the concentration of groupings with bond oxygen. Thus a higher dosage of coagulant Al2(SO4)3 .14,3 H2O will be necessary for an efficient removal of color. (AU) | |