Effect of External Carbon Source and Bed Turnover Rate on Denitrificaion.docVIP

Creative Education 2012. Vol.3, Supplement, 17-20 Published Online December 2012 in SciRes (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ce) DOI:10.4236/ce.2012.37B004 Effect of External Carbon Source and Bed Turnover Rate on Denitrificaion Jihee Song, Younghee Kim, Namjong Yoo RD Department, Ilshin Environmental Engineering Co., Ltd., Seoul, Korea Email: njyoo@okilshin.co.kr Received 2012 This study investigated the effect of external carbon source and bed turnover rate on biological denitrifi- cation in the pilot-scale IPNR (Ilshin Phosphorus and Nitrate Removal) process. IPNR process is an up-flow reactor filled with Si-media which removes phosphorus physically and nitrate nitrogen biologi- cally using secondary effluent from sewage treatment plant. Phosphorus (PO -P) was removed using HFO 4 (Hydrous ferric oxide) by adsorption as well as nitrate nitrogen (NO -N) was transformed to nitrogen gas 3 (N ) by denitrifying bacteria using external carbon source in the same reactor. Methanol was used as an 2 external carbon source for denitrification with various dosing concentration and Si-media bed turnover -1 rate was varied from 6.4 ~ 7.75 day . The concentrations of PO -P and NO -N in the secondary effluent 4 3 were from 0.1 to 1.75 mg/L and from 1.1 to 31.9 mg/L, respectively. The results demonstrated that high amount of NO -N removed from 31.9 to 1.2 mg/L, at the same time PO -P removed from 1.75 to 3 4 0.41mg/L using secondary effluent. Denitrification was found more stable with 6.4 bed turnover/day and 130% over dosing of theoretical methanol dose for denitrification. Keywords: Denitrification; Carbon Source; Bed Turnover Rate; Phosphorus Removal Introduction sources is well known in the world and it is shown below (3~6) [6]. Ammonia oxidation to nitrate requires 4.57 g O /g NH -N 2 4 One of the major concerns for wastewater treatment is removal of phosphorus and nitrogen which