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| Author(s): |
André Luiz de Oliveira
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: | 2007-02-23 |
| Examining board members: |
Marco Antonio Penalva Reali;
José Roberto Campos;
Antonio Eduardo Giansante;
Silvia Claudia Semensato Povinelli;
Milton Tomoyuki Tsutiya
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| Advisor: | Marco Antonio Penalva Reali |
| Abstract | |
This works assesses the performance of a floto-filtration pilot system, applied to the post-treatment of an anaerobic reactor effluent, under different superficial application rates, amount of air supplied to the process and filter beds. The work was divided in two phases: preliminary essays (phase 1), essays with the floto-filter without using filter bed (step 1 of phase 2) and essays with the floto-filter using filter beds (step 2 of phase 2). Phase 1, carried out with bench scale dissolved air flotation unit, presented satisfactory results regarding turbidity removal, color and Abs254nm for ferric chloride dosages between 40 - 80 mg/L in most of the essays. The data acquired from this phase were mainly used to determine and adopt the best operational parameters to be employed in the following phase. In step 1 of phase 2, the system was analyzed concerning the quality of the water produced in favorable conditions for ferric chloride dosages, time and flocculation gradient, recirculation gradient and superficial application rate. The following variables were analyzed from the collected samples: turbidity, temperature, conductivity, COD, TSS, pH, color, Abs254nm, metais, OD, \'P-PO IND.4\'POT.3-\', NTK and \'N-NH IND.4\'POT.+\'. Global efficiencies of 88 to 97% for turbidity removal (residual < 20 uT), 84 to 98% for TSS (residual 25 mg/L), 87 to 94% for COD (residual < 60 mg/L), 78 to 92% for CODF (residual < 40 mg/L), 85 to 96% \'P-PO IND.4\'POT.3-\' (residual < 2 mg/L) and less than 30% for NTK and \'N-NH IND.4\'POT.+\' were obtained. In step 2 of phase 2, besides the aforementioned analyses, BOD, total and fecal coliforms, sulphates, hardness, alkalinity, volatile acids and turbidity throughout the filter in addition to the measure of headloss during the filter run. In this phase, the floto-filtration pilot plant was assessed varying the superficial application and filter bed rate. The results were positive with the final effluent presenting mean turbidity below 2 uT and mean filter run time of 24 hours. Global efficiencies of 96 to 99% for turbidity removal (residual < 7 uT), 96 to 99% for TSS (residual < 6 mg/L), 93 to 96% for \'COD IND.B\' (residual < 40 mg/L), 89 to 97% for \'COD IND.F\' (residual < 34 mg/L), 93 to 98% for \'P-PO IND.4\'POT.3-\' (residual < 0,3 mg/L), less than 30% for NTK and \'N-NH IND.4\'POT.-\', 96 to 98% for color (residual < 50 uC) and 80 to 82% for Abs254nm (resisual < 0,198). Thus, due to the good results that were presented, it can be said that floto-filtration is an attractive alternative for the post-treatment of an anaerobic reactor effluent. (AU) | |