The purpose of this thesis was to compare ethinylestradiol (EE2) and nitrogen removal in a conventional membrane bioreactor (C-MBR) and a simultaneous nitrification-denitrification membrane bioreactor (SND-MBR). Two MBRs were operated in parallel for 450 days; various MBR operating parameters, total nitrogen removal, and estrogenic activity removal (EA) were measured. The SND-MBR was able to remove 59% of influent TN with an additional 21% removed via sludge wasting; the C-MBR had a TN removal efficiency of only 31%. The C-MBR and SND-MBR removed 57% and 58% of influent EA, respectively. Biodegradation was the dominant removal mechanism for both reactors with KBIO coefficients of 1.5 ± 0.6 and 1.6 ± 0.4 days-1 for the C-MBR and the SND-MBR, respectively. Adsorption removed approximately 1% of influent EA in each reactor. This indicates that SND was able remove greater amounts of TN with no observable impact on EA reduction and membrane operations.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:MWU.1993/4519 |
| Date | 12 April 2011 |
| Creators | Paetkau, Michelle |
| Contributors | Cicek, Nazim (Biosystems Engineering), Gorczyca, Beata (Civil Engineering) Paliwal, Jitendra (Biosystems Engineering) |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
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