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Com o intuito de viabilizar, ambiental e economicamente, a degradação de algumas substâncias perigosas e recalcitrantes, presentes em águas e efluentes, foi desenvolvido um sistema para estudar a tratabilidade dessas substâncias, utilizando Processos Oxidativos Avançados POAs. As espécies escolhidas foram o fenol (C6H5OH) a 50 mg L-1 e o cianeto de potássio (KCN) a 20 mg L-1. Os resíduos químicos foram submetidos a tratamentos com diferentes doses de O3 (0, 2,4 e 4,8 g h-1), H2O2 (0, 150 e 300 mg L-1 para o fenol e 0, 60 e 120 mg L-1 para o cianeto) e UV (0, 8 e 32 watts), pois tais combinações promovem a geração de radicais hidroxila (OH), cujo potencial de oxidação é superior ao de cada oxidante individualmente. O sistema desenvolvido funciona em batelada com recirculação, possibilitando todas as combinações de interesse entre os oxidantes, com capacidade máxima de 300 mL de resíduo, volume adotado para todos os testes deste trabalho. O sistema é composto por uma coluna cilíndrica disposta na posição vertical, ligada a um reator UV. Outros equipamentos instalados são a bomba para a circulação do resíduo, o concentrador de O2, o ozonizador (0-24 g h-1), cujo gás é insuflado pela base da coluna, e seu excesso passa pelo destruidor de O3, composto por uma coluna preenchida com carvão ativado. A solução de H2O2 é adicionada ao sistema com o auxílio de uma seringa. A eficiência do processo de mineralização do fenol, foi avaliada através de 27 tratamentos (combinações) nos tempos de 15 e 30 minutos e pH 6,5. As amostras coletadas foram analisadas em equipamento Shimadzu TOC-5000A, obtendo-se a concentração de carbono orgânico total. Os dados foram submetidos à análise estatística (Fatorial e teste de Tukey, p<0,05). As combinações com os melhores resultados foram utilizadas para uma segunda etapa de testes, variando os tempos em 5, 15, 30 e 45 minutos. Os novos dados foram submetidos à análise estatística e, novamente, as combinações com melhores resultados foram utilizadas para avaliação do efeito do pH (6,5 e 9,5) na mineralização do fenol. A combinação O3 (4,8 g h-1) / UV (32 watts) / H2O2 (300 mg L-1), em pH 9,5, apresentou a melhor condição de tratamento em 30 minutos, proporcionando 99,7% de mineralização do fenol. O delineamento experimental do cianeto foi baseado nas melhores razões oxidante/resíduo obtidas para o fenol. Foi preparada solução 8,13 mg L-1 de CN previamente alcalinizada (pH 11,0). Os tempos estudados foram 1, 2, 4, 5 e 10 minutos e as amostras foram submetidas à análise de N-NO3 por espectrofotometria em sistema por análise em fluxo. Neste caso a combinação O3 (4,8 g h-1) / UV (32 watts), proporcionou 97,6% da oxidação do cianeto à NO3 em 7 minutos de tratamento. Os custos dos tratamentos nas melhores condições foram de R$ 11,08 por litro de fenol tratado e R$ 4,20 por litro de cianeto tratado. Concluiu-se que o sistema proposto foi eficiente no tratamento de ambos resíduos químicos (fenol e cianeto) em um curto período de tempo / In order to facilitate, environmentally and economically, the degradation of some hazardous and recalcitrant substances, presented in waters and wastewaters, a system was developed to study the treatability of chemical substances using Advanced Oxidative Processes AOPs. The substances chosen were phenol (C6H5OH) at 50 mg L-1 and potassium cyanide (KCN) at 20 mg L-1. The chemical residues were submitted to treatments with different combinations and doses of O3 (0, 2.4, and 4.8 g h-1), H2O2 (0, 150 and 300 mg L-1 for phenol and 0, 60 and 120 mg L-1 for cyanide) and ultraviolet radiation (0, 8 and 32 watts), as these combinations promote the generation of hydroxyl radicals (OH), whose oxidation potential is greater than of each oxidant individually. The developed system works in batch treatments with recirculation, allowing all combinations of interests among the oxidants, with a maximum capacity of 300 mL of waste, adopted for all tests of this work. The system consists of a cylindrical column disposed in the vertical position and connected to a UV reactor. Other installed equipments are the pump for residual recirculation, the O2 concentrator, the ozonator (0-24 g h-1), which gas is blown from the base of the column and its excess is destroyed by the equipment composed of a glass column filled with granulate activated carbon. The solution of H2O2 is added to the system with the aid of a syringe. The efficiency of the mineralization of phenol was evaluated in 27 treatments in 15 and 30 minutes and pH 6.5. The collected samples were analyzed in Shimadzu TOC 5000A equipment, obtaining the concentration of total organic carbon (TOC). The obtained data were submitted to statistical analysis (Factorial and Tukey test, p<0.05). The combinations with the best results were used for a second phase of tests, varying the time at 5, 15, 30, and 45 minutes. The new data were submitted to statistical analysis and the best performing combinations were used to evaluate the effect of pH (6.5 and 9.5) in the mineralization of phenol. The combination of O3 (4.8 g h-1) / UV (32 watts) / H2O2 (300 mg L-1) at pH 9.5 showed the best treatment condition in 30 minutes, providing 99.7% of phenol mineralization. The experimental design of cyanide was based on the best oxidant/residue reasons obtained for phenol. A solution with 8.13 mg L-1 of CN previously alkaline (pH 11.0) was prepared. The treatment times were 1, 2, 4, 5 and 10 minutes and the samples were submitted to N-NO3 analysis by spectrophotometry system in flow injection analysis. In this case the combination O3 (4.8 g h-1) / UV (32 watts) provided 97.6 % of oxidation of the cyanide to NO3 in 7 minutes of treatment. The costs of treatments in the best conditions were R$ 11,08 per litter of phenol treated and R$ 4,20 per litter of cyanide treated. It can be concluded that the proposed system was effective in the treatment of both chemical residues (phenol and cyanide) in a short period of time

The Wood River, located in the Old Wives Lake watershed in southern Saskatchewan, is an important water resource for people living in this area. Agriculture dominates land use in the basin, while the river receives waste water effluent from the town of Gravelbourg twice yearly. Both land usage in the basin and the dumping of municipal waste water effluent have the potential to degrade water quality in the river. To date however, the water quality of the Wood River has been relatively unstudied. <p> The purpose of this study was threefold. First, to evaluate the water quality of the Wood River and compare it to similar river systems. Then, to evaluate the effects of nutrients on the pelagic phytoplankton in the river to determine the biological responsiveness to nutrient additions which might occur as a result of agricultural land use and municipal waste water effluent. Lastly to propose mitigative measures that could help to reduce the potential threat of increased nutrients. <p> To determine the effect that agricultural land use and municipal waste water effluent was having on river water quality, nutrient and chlorophyll a (a measure of algal biomass) levels in the river were examined. Five sites, having different land use patterns, were chosen for this purpose. These included a reference site at a regional park not directly affected by agriculture, a site where agricultural land use dominated, a site utilized by cattle, a reservoir within the river system used for drinking water and surrounded by agriculture and finally, a site just downstream from where Gravelbourg's municipal waste is released.<p>Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) levels were high in the Wood River when compared to similar systems. The mean TP concentration for the Wood River over the two years of this study was 474 Ýg/L (¡Ó 246 STD) while the mean ammonia concentration was 223 Ýg/L (¡Ó 993 STD). These concentrations exceeded water quality guidelines. Algal biomass and nutrient concentrations were higher at sites where nonpoint source pollution from agriculture or point source pollution from sewage effluents was present. Nutrient enrichment bioassays also indicated that the algal population in the Wood River was responsive to additions of nutrients, therefore, increases in nutrients will increase algal biomass in the river. The bioassays also revealed that at the sites where agriculture and municipal waste water were present, the algal population was N limited indicating an excess of P in the river. The municipal point source of pollution had a great effect on algal biomass and these effects lasted for about three weeks after the release. Different land use patterns and municipal waste water effluent were potentially having a negative effect on the water quality of the Wood River. <p>An examination of mitigative strategies available in the Old Wives Lake area revealed that land management tools including the implementation of soil conservation practices and riparian management could be useful in protecting the Wood River from degradation. Neither soil conservation practices nor riparian management are used extensively in the watershed, and both of these practices could help improve the water quality of the Wood River.

The Wood River, located in the Old Wives Lake watershed in southern Saskatchewan, is an important water resource for people living in this area. Agriculture dominates land use in the basin, while the river receives waste water effluent from the town of Gravelbourg twice yearly. Both land usage in the basin and the dumping of municipal waste water effluent have the potential to degrade water quality in the river. To date however, the water quality of the Wood River has been relatively unstudied. <p> The purpose of this study was threefold. First, to evaluate the water quality of the Wood River and compare it to similar river systems. Then, to evaluate the effects of nutrients on the pelagic phytoplankton in the river to determine the biological responsiveness to nutrient additions which might occur as a result of agricultural land use and municipal waste water effluent. Lastly to propose mitigative measures that could help to reduce the potential threat of increased nutrients. <p> To determine the effect that agricultural land use and municipal waste water effluent was having on river water quality, nutrient and chlorophyll a (a measure of algal biomass) levels in the river were examined. Five sites, having different land use patterns, were chosen for this purpose. These included a reference site at a regional park not directly affected by agriculture, a site where agricultural land use dominated, a site utilized by cattle, a reservoir within the river system used for drinking water and surrounded by agriculture and finally, a site just downstream from where Gravelbourg's municipal waste is released.<p>Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) levels were high in the Wood River when compared to similar systems. The mean TP concentration for the Wood River over the two years of this study was 474 Ýg/L (¡Ó 246 STD) while the mean ammonia concentration was 223 Ýg/L (¡Ó 993 STD). These concentrations exceeded water quality guidelines. Algal biomass and nutrient concentrations were higher at sites where nonpoint source pollution from agriculture or point source pollution from sewage effluents was present. Nutrient enrichment bioassays also indicated that the algal population in the Wood River was responsive to additions of nutrients, therefore, increases in nutrients will increase algal biomass in the river. The bioassays also revealed that at the sites where agriculture and municipal waste water were present, the algal population was N limited indicating an excess of P in the river. The municipal point source of pollution had a great effect on algal biomass and these effects lasted for about three weeks after the release. Different land use patterns and municipal waste water effluent were potentially having a negative effect on the water quality of the Wood River. <p>An examination of mitigative strategies available in the Old Wives Lake area revealed that land management tools including the implementation of soil conservation practices and riparian management could be useful in protecting the Wood River from degradation. Neither soil conservation practices nor riparian management are used extensively in the watershed, and both of these practices could help improve the water quality of the Wood River.

Abstract Constructed wetlands can be treated as a imulated natural treatment system,which use solar adiation as the source of energy. By analogy with some removalmechanisms in natural wetlands, constructed wetlands are able to transform and remove pollutants from the wastewater. Other features provided by the constructed wetland include wildlife support, hydrologic odification, erosion protection, and open space and aesthetics. It has been applied for domestic wastewater purification for decades. The goal of this study was to evaluate the ffectiveness of using constructed wetlands on industrial wastewater treatment. In this study, grit chamber and furnace waste from steel-making were used as the media for plant growth. Two -tank (dimension for each tank: 4L ¡Ñ1W ¡Ñ1H) system was designed and constructed to simulate the constructed wetland. Reed and cattail were planted in the first and second tanks, respectively. In the system, media in the first and second tanks were filled to a height of 0.4 m (furnace waste from steel-making) and 0.1 m (waste grit), respectively. The depth of water was maintained at 0.3 m. The hydraulic retention time was approximately 5 days. The following parameters were analyzed during the operational period: nutrients, chemical oxygen demand (COD), suspended solids (SS), and biochemical oxygen demand (BOD). The calculated removal rates (g/m2/day) in the first tank were¡GCOD 5.92¡Ó0.64¡BBOD 3.48¡Ó0.95¡BSS (suspended solids) 3.42¡Ó1.44¡BTKN (total kjedal nitrogen, TKN) 0.94¡Ó0.26¡BTP (total phosphorus) 1.33¡Ó0.2¡CThe removal rates (g/ m2/day) in the second tank were: COD 5.17¡Ó0.62¡BBOD 3.21¡Ó0.92¡B SS 2.92¡Ó1.29¡BTKN 0.59¡Ó0.21¡BTP 0.66¡Ó0.15. Results from this study indicate that the media and plants in both tanks created a biofiltration system for microbial growth and pollutant removal. Sorption and biodegradation were the two major pollutant removal mechanisms in the system. During the operational period, the average removal efficiencies (%) in the first tank were: COD 55~62, BOD 73~90, SS 66~84, TKN 36~66, TP 28~39. The average removal efficiencies (%) in the first tank were: COD 49~54, BOD 73~83, SS 45~69,TKN 15~43, TP 9~24.

Efficient reuse of waste water requires removal of micro-pollutants from waste water streams by affordable and sustainable methods. Activated carbon is considered a powerful adsorbent due to its high surface area and low cost of treatment, compared to other expensive methods such as membrane filtration. Producing activated carbon with larger mesoporosity (>2nm) is of particular interest in industry in the removal of larger molecular sized pollutants. This study reports the synthesis of mesoporous activated carbons from a nonsoluble biomass precursor (date-pits) along with chemical activation using ZnCl2. Thus, produced activated carbon showed high surface area and large mesopore volume up to 1571 m2/g and 2.00 cm3/g respectively. In addition, the pore size of the product was as high as 9.30 nm. As a method of verification, HRTEM (Highresolution transmission electron microscopy) was used to directly authenticate the pore size of the synthesized activated carbons. Tannic acid and atrazine were used as model waste water pollutants and the adsorption capability of the produced activated carbon for these pollutants were evaluated and compared to a commercial mesoporous carbon: G60 from Norit. The results showed that the sorption capacity of produced activated carbon for tannic acid was 2 times that of G60 while the sorption capacity of produced activated carbon for atrazine was lower than that of G60. The activated carbon was also evaluated for adsorption of real secondary effluent municipal wastewater and the results suggest that the produced activated carbon was able to sorb a greater amount of biopolymers than G60. These results demonstrate that the thus-produced activated carbon may be a promising sorbent for waste water treatment.

Total organic carbon (TOC) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) are two methods used for measuring organic pollutants in wastewater. Both methods are widely used but the COD method results in production of hazardous wastes, including mercury.The purpose of this study was to validate the method TOC that will replace COD and find a factor to convert TOC to COD. In this study 26 samples were analyzed from four sewage treatment plant in the municipality of Enköping.The results show that the COD method could be replaced by the TOC method.The factor for COD/TOC was between 3.1 - 3.3. Both methods will be used in parallel until 2013 when it will be forbidden to use the COD analysis.

No abstract available. / Thesis (M.Sc.Eng.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2006.

Dyes are often recalcitrant organic molecules that produce a colour change and contribute to the organic load and toxicity of textile industrial wastewater. Untreated effluent from such sources is harmful to aquatic life in the rivers and lakes due to reduced light penetration and the presence of highly toxic metal complex dyes. The use of alum as flocculant/coagulant in wastewater treatment is not encouraged as it induces Alzheimer’s disease in humans and results in the production of large amounts of sludge. Therefore, the development of safe and biodegradable flocculating agents that will minimize environmental and health risks may be considered as an important issue in wastewater treatment. Bioflocculants are extracellular polymers synthesized by living cells. In this study, bacterial bioflocculants were assessed for their ability to remove dyes from textile wastewater as well as reducing the microbial load in untreated river water. The bacteria were isolated from a wastewater treatment plant and identified using standard biochemical tests as well as the analysis of their 16S rDNA gene sequences. Six bacterial isolates were identified viz. Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas plecoglossicida, Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes, Exiguobacterium acetylicum, Bacillus subtilis, and Klebsiella terrigena. The flocculating activities of the bioflocculants produced by these isolates were characterized. The effect of temperature, pH, cations and bioflocculant concentration on the removal of dyes, kaolin clay and microbial load was also determined. The amount of bioflocculants produced by the bacterial isolates ranged between 5 and 27.66 g/l. According to the findings of the present study, bacterial bioflocculants were composed of carbohydrates, proteins, uronic acid, and hexosamine in varying quantities. The bioflocculants were effective to varying degrees in removing the dyes in aqueous solution, in particular whale dye, medi-blue, fawn dye and mixed dyes, with a decolourization efficiency ranging between 20-99.9%. Decolourization efficiency was influenced by the bioflocculant concentration, pH, temperature, and cations. The bacterial bioflocculants were also capable of reducing both the kaolin clay and the microbial load from river water. The flocculating activity ranged between 2.395–3.709 OD-1 while up to 70.84% of kaolin clay and 99% of the microbial load from the river water was removed. The efficiency of kaolin clay flocculation increased with higher concentration of bacterial bioflocculants. The optimum pH for the flocculating activity was observed between 6 and 9. The best flocculating activity was observed at 28oC. Divalent cations such as Mg2+ and Mn2+ improved the flocculation while salts such as K2HPO4, CH2COONa, and Na2CO3 did not. The findings of this study strongly suggest that microbial bioflocculants could provide a promising alternative to replace or supplement the physical and chemical treatment processes of river water and textile industry effluent. / Thesis (M.Sc.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2008.

District heating has a long standing tradition in Sweden and today it is the most common way of producing and transporting heat. A District heating system (DH system) is divided into three parts: a production facility, distribution network (DH network) and one more heat stations. The heat produced in the facilities is distributed to the customers via a heat transfer medium, usually water (DH water), in piping networks that make up the DH network. The heat is transferred to the customers via the heat exchanger at which point they can use it as heated tap water or for heating purposes. The DH networks are often constructed in steel as it is cheap and a relatively resistant material. However it has the disadvantages of corrosion and expansions when it is exposed high temperatures which lead to damages in the DH network resulting in loss of the DH water, this is an unavoidable occurrence in any DH network. This results in addition of pollutants by leakages into the DH network or with the water that is used to compensate for the losses. The pollutants cause further corrosion, leading to metal contamination, and more damages on the DH network meaning there is a continuous degradation. Therefore various treatments are used to clean and ascertain an acceptable chemical environment in the DH systems. These treatments are effective but not at a level which is required so many chemicals are used to enhance the treatment of the water. Some of these are known to be toxic to humans and water ecosystems. As leakages are abundant and often end up in the WWTPs of the concerned municipality, which often have troubles with disturbances of the biological treatment, it was decided that an assessment of the toxic effects that DH water pose on activated sludge was to be investigated. This was done by testing water from two DH networks, Växjö and Kalmar, on the same activated sludge obtained from Tegelviken WWTP in Kalmar. A respirometric bioassay approach established by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), OECD standard 209; OECD Guidelines for the Testing of Chemicals was used with changes made to exposure and measuring time as this decrease the risk of misinterpretation of the results. A dilution series using different concentrations (6.25%, 25% and 100%) of DH water was tested and compered to a blank control samples containing only activated sludge. Assessment of toxicity on total oxidation, oxidation carbon and oxidation of nitrogen was made. To get some idea of what might cause toxic effect samples of the waters was sent to outside laboratories for analyses of metals. The result from the bioassay and metal analysis was used to formulate risk factors associated with a DH water spill and exposure to WWTPs. It was found that both DH waters have a significant inhibition on nitrification in WWTPs. The DH water from Kalmar exhibited similar toxicity dynamics, roughly 20% inhibition, despite large differences in concentration. The DH water from Växjö showed a negative correlation between an increase in concentration of DH water and toxicity, 74% for the lowest concentration and 11% for the highest. The metal analysis concluded that there was no abundance of metal contamination which led to the inference that toxicity is probably caused by the chemicals used for treatment. This poses a great risk for the Baltic Ocean as many WWTPs release their treated water directly into water courses with a short detention time before reaching the sea.