Effectiveness of fluidized pellet bed for removing soluble contaminants
WANG Xiaochang , LI Zhihua , WANG Zhen , LI Jinrong , LI Jiayu , CHEN Rong
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Received ,Revised , Accepted , Available online
Volume 21,2009,Pages 13-17
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Fluidized pellet bed (FPB) has been successfully applied in water and wastewater treatment. However, the removal mechanism of
contaminants especially the soluble ones, is still unclear. This study aimed to evaluate the e ectiveness of FPB reactor for removing
soluble contaminants from synthetic wastewater. By only coagulation through jar test operation with addition of polyaluminium chloride
(PACl) as primary coagulant and polyacryamide (PAM) as coagulant-aid, the removals of soluble chemical oxygen demand (COD),
total phosphorus (TP), and NH4
+-N were found to be only 2.2%–7.5%, 5.7%–25.5%, and 9.9%–18.5%, respectively. However, by FPB
operation under the same dosage of coagulants, these values increased to 82.7%, 37.2%, and 50%, indicating that the formation of
pellets in the FPB e ectively enhanced the removal of soluble contaminants. By careful comparison of the settleablility and filterability
of the pollutants after coagulation, the originally soluble contaminants could be divided into three groups, namely: (1) coagulated-andsettleable,
(2) coagulated-but-nonsettleable, and (3) uncoagulable. It was found that not only the first two groups but also a large part of
the third group could be e ectively removed by FPB operation. However, the mechanism for the removal of the uncoagulable pollutants
by FPB operation still needs further investigation.
