Journal
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 171, Issue 3, Pages 897-903Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2011.04.033
Keywords
Destruction mechanisms; Dissolved organic matter (DOM); Excitation-emission matrix (EEM); Fluorescence spectroscopy; Sludge treatment
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Funding
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [JUSRP11113]
- Science and Technology Support Program (Social Development) of Jiangsu Province [BE2009636]
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Three-dimensional excitation-emission matrix (EEM) fluorescence spectroscopy and gel filtration chromatography (GFC) were employed to characterize dissolved organic matter (DOM) in a hybrid membrane process for simultaneous sludge thickening and digestion (MSTD). The MSTD process was operated under a sequencing batch mode, and the operating time of each cycle was 15 d from the initial fresh sludge to the final thickened and digested sludge. Results showed that the molecular weight (MW) distribution of DOM in sludge supernatant became broader after the MSTD process, and three main peaks including Peak A and Peak B related to protein-like substances and Peak C associated with humic acid-like substances could be identified from the EEM fluorescence spectra of all DOM samples in the MSTD process. The quantitative analysis of the fluorescence spectra of DOM in sludge supernatant showed that the fluorescence intensity (FI) of Peak A and Peak B in sludge supernatant correlated well with the concentration of soluble protein, MLSS destruction efficiency and mean particle size, suggesting that the variations of EEM fluorescence spectra of DOM in sludge supernatant could be used to evaluate the floc destruction mechanisms of the MSTD process. It was also found that the FI of Peak A slightly increased before 8 d but rapidly went up after 8 d, and the FI of Peak B changed slightly before 8 d but increased after 8 d, which implied that the floc destruction mechanisms were varied in one cycle of the MSTD process. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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