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Bioresource Technology 108 2012 45–54 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Bioresource Technology journal home Anionic polymer compound bio?occulant as a coagulant aid with aluminum sulfate and titanium tetrachloride Y.X. Zhao a, B.Y. Gao a,?, H.K. Shon b, Y. Wang a, J.-H. Kim c, Q.Y. Yue a, X.W. Bo a a School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, No. 27 Shanda South Road, Jinan 250100, Shandong, People’s Republic of China b School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology, Sydney UTS , P.O. Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia c School of Applied Chemical Engineering and The Institute for Catalysis Research, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 500-757, South Korea a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The objectives of this study are to investigate the impacts of anionic polymer compound bio?occulant Received 19 November 2011 CBF as a coagulant aid on coagulation performance and ?oc characteristics with titanium tetrachloride Received in revised form 4 January 2012 TiCl and aluminum sulfate Al SO . The effect of dosing sequence was also investigated. Floc size, 4 2 4 3 Accepted 4 January 2012 breakage, regrowth and ?oc fractal dimension were examined using a laser diffraction instrument. The Available online 10 January 2012 results showed that CBF with TiCl or Al SO coagulants exhibited synergistic effects by promoting 4 2 4 3 dissolved organic carbon DOC removal. For both TiCl and Al SO , the ?oc recoverability was 4 2 4 3 Keywords: improved by CBF addition, and the ?ocs formed by TiCl4 and the corresponding dual-coagulants showed Titanium tetrachloride weaker recovery ability than those by Al SO and the corresponding dual-coagulants. Fractal dimen- Anionic polymer compound bio?occulant 2 4 3 Aluminum sulfate sion analysis demonstrated that the ?oc fractal dimension values increased with