Wastewater treatment by means of advanced oxidation processes at basic pH conditions: a review.

Photocatalytic oxidation of organic dyes and pollutants in wastewater using different modified titanium dioxides: A comparative review

Photocatalytic degradation of pollutants in petroleum refinery wastewater by TiO2- and ZnO-based photocatalysts: Recent development

Statistical Design and Analysis of Experiments

Effect of particle size and viscosity on thermal conductivity enhancement of graphene oxide nanofluid

Process modeling and kinetic evaluation of petroleum refinery wastewater treatment in a photocatalytic reactor using TiO2 nanoparticles

The hydraulic characteristic of an anaerobic rotating biological contactor (AnRBC) were studied by changing two important hydraulic factors effective in the treatment performance: the hydraulic retention time (τ) and rotational disk velocity (ω). The reactor hydraulic performance was analyzed by studying hydraulic residence time distributions (RTD) obtained from tracer (Rhodamine B) experiments. The experiments were conducted based on a central composite face-centered design (CCFD) and analyzed using response surface methodology (RSM). The region of exploration for the process was taken as the area enclosed by τ (60, 90 and 120 min) and ω (0.8 and 16 rpm) boundaries. Four dependent parameters, deviation from ideal retention time (Δτ), dead volume percentage and dispersion indexes (Morrill dispersion index (MDI) and dispersion number (d)), were computed as response. The maximum modeled Δτ and dead volume percentage was 43.03 min and 37.51% at τ and ω 120 min and 0 rpm, respectively. While, the minimum predicted responses (2.57 min and 8.08%) were obtained at τ and ω 60min and 16 rpm, respectively. The interaction showed that disk rotational velocity and hydraulic retention time played an important role in MDI in the reactor. The AnRBC hydraulic regime was classified as moderate and high dispersion (d=0.09 to 0.253). As a result, in addition to the factors studied, the reactor geometry showed significant effect on the hydraulic regime.

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Hydraulic characteristics analysis of an anaerobic rotatory biological contactor (AnRBC) using tracer experiments and response surface methodology (RSM)

In this study, kinetics of biological carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorous removal from a synthetic wastewater in an integrated rotating biological contactor-activated sludge system was investigated. The experimental data obtained from varying four significant independent factors viz., hydraulic retention time, chemical oxygen demand for nitrogen to phosphorus ratio, internal recirculation from aerobic to anoxic zone and disks rotating speed were used for the process kinetic modeling. In order to obtain the bioprocess kinetic coefficients, Monod, first-order and Stover–Kincannon models were employed. As a result, Monod and Stover–Kincannon models were found to be the appropriate models to describe the bioprocess in the rotating biological contactor-activated sludge system as the determination coefficient for the first-order model obtained less than 0.79. According to the Monod model, growth yield, microbial decay rate, maximum specific biomass growth rate, and half-velocity constant coefficients were found to be 0.712 g VSS/g COD, 0.008/d, 5.54/d and 55 mg COD/L, respectively. From Stover–Kincannon model, the maximum total substrate removal rate constant and half-velocity constant were determined as 15.2, 10.98, 12.05 g/L d and 14.78, 7.11, 6.97 mg/L for chemical oxygen demand, nitrogen and phosphorus removal, respectively. The kinetic parameters determined in this study can be used to improve the design and operation of the biological contactor-activated sludge system in full scale.

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Yadollah Mansouri

Papers

Process modeling and kinetic evaluation of petroleum refinery wastewater treatment in a photocatalytic reactor using TiO2 nanoparticles

Hydraulic characteristics analysis of an anaerobic rotatory biological contactor (AnRBC) using tracer experiments and response surface methodology (RSM)

Kinetic modeling of carbon and nutrients removal in an integrated rotating biological contactor-activated sludge system