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Membrane fouling controlled by coagulation/adsorption during direct sewage membrane filtration (DSMF) for organic matter concentration

Journal

JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Volume 32, Issue -, Pages 1-7

Publisher

SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2015.01.002

Keywords

Wastewater; Direct sewage membrane filtration; Membrane fouling; Coagulation/adsorption; Sewage concentrating; Resource recovery

Funding

  1. Major Science and Technology Program for Water Pollution Control and Treatment of China [2012ZX07205-002]
  2. Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program [20121087922]
  3. Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University [IRT1152]

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Unlike the role of the membrane in a membrane bioreactor, which is designed to replace a sediment tank, direct sewage membrane filtration (DSMF), with the goal of concentrating organic matters, is proposed as a pretreatment process in a novel sewage treatment concept. The concept of membrane-based pretreatment is proposed to divide raw sewage into a concentrated part retaining most organics and a filtered part with less pollutant remaining, so that energy recovery and water reuse, respectively, could be realized by post-treatment. A pilot-scale experiment was carried out to verify the feasibility of coagulant/adsorbent addition for membrane fouling control, which has been the main issue during this DSMF process. The results showed that continuous coagulant addition successfully slowed down the increase in filtration resistance, with the resistance maintained below 1.0 x 10(13) m(-1) in the first 70 hr before a jump occurred. Furthermore, the adsorbent addition contributed to retarding the occurrence of the filtration resistance jump, achieving simultaneous fouling control and chemical oxygen demand (COD) concentration improvement. The final concentrated COD amounted to 7500 mg/L after 6 days of operation. (C) 2015 The Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Published by Elsevier B.V.

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