Controlling various contaminants in wastewater effluent through membranes and engineered wetland

Abstract

For effective wastewater reclamation and water recovery, the treatment of natural and effluent organic matters (NOM and EfOM), toxic anions, and micropollutants was considered in this work. Two different NOM (humic acid of the Suwannee River, and NOM of US and Youngsan River, Korea), and one EfOM from the Damyang wastewater treatment plant, Korea, were selected for investigating the removal efficiencies of tight nanofiltration (NF) and ultrafiltration (UF) membranes with different properties. Nitrate, bromate, and perchlorate were selected as target toxic anions due to their well known high toxicities. Tri-(2-chloroethyl)-phosphate (TCEP), oxybenzone, and caffeine, due to their different K_ow and pK_a values, were selected as target micropollutants. As expected, the NF membranes provided high removal efficiencies in terms of all the tested contaminants, and the UF membrane provided fairly high removal efficiencies for anions (except for nitrate) and the relatively hydrophobic micropollutant, oxybenzon

Keywords

wastewater reclamation / natural organic matter (NOM) / effluent organic matter (EfOM) / membranes / wetlands

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Acknowledgements

This research was supported by the National Research Laboratory Program by the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (Grant No. R0A-2007-000-20055-0), and partially supported by the Basic Research Project through a grant provided by the GIST in 2008.

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