Study of treatment of waste water by activated sludge in the reactor air-lift of concentric tubes

Author(s)

Tania Maria Alberte

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Engenharia de Alimentos
• Defense date: 2003-03-13

Examining board members

Ranulfo Monte Alegre; Ana Claudia Barana; Carlos Gomes da Nave Mendes; Fernando Antonio Cabral

• Advisor: Ranulfo Monte Alegre

Abstract

Air lift reaetors are a speeial elass of bubble eolumns and are been reeently used in ehemieal and bioehemical processes, as well as in wastewater treatment. In this work, it was studied the performanee of aeoneentrie tube air lift reaetor in the synthetie wastewater treatment by aetivated sludge. The reaetor was eonstrueted of stainless steel, 1.2 m high of riser and 1.5 m high of downeomer. It was fed with synthetie wastewater and the sludge was separeted in a sedimentator in the top of reaetor and reeyeled. The manometrie pressure varied from O to 1.2 kgf.em'2, the air flow rate from 200 to 1,600 mL.min-1 and the feed solution from 200 to 400 mL.h -1. To eaeh feed solution of synthetie wastewater rate, air flow rate and pressure, the reaetor was operated in eontinuous form until the hidraulie and mierobiologieal steady-state was reaehed. The samples were eolleeted in the half of the reaetor. Chemieal oxygen demand (COO) and volatils solids eoneentration (VSS) was determinated aceording to ín Standard Methods for the Examínation of Water and Wastewater (1985). Feed solution rate, air flow rate and pressure rangedgradually, as well as eoneentration of feed synthetie wastewater (1,100 of 8,600 mgCOO.L- (AU)