Demonstrating scale-up of a novel water treatment process using super-bridging agents

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作者
Blancho, Florent [1 ]
Lapointe, Mathieu [2 ]
Quevedo, Ana C. [1 ]
Kannan, Krishnaveni [1 ]
Tufenkji, Nathalie [1 ]
机构
[1] McGill Univ, Dept Chem Engn, Quebec City, PQ H3A 0C5, Canada
[2] Univ Quebec, Ecole Technol Super, Dept Construct Engn, Quebec City, PQ H3C 1K3, Canada
基金
加拿大创新基金会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
Water treatment; Floc removal; Cellulose; Separation methods; Screening; Settling; ACTIVATED STARCH; FLOCCULATION; COAGULATION; POLYACRYLAMIDE; ADSORPTION; POLYMER;
D O I
10.1016/j.watres.2024.121301
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Fiber -based materials have emerged as a promising option to increase the efficiency of water treatment plants while reducing their environmental impacts, notably by reducing the use of unsustainable chemicals and the size of the settling tank. Cellulose fiber -based super -bridging agents are sustainable, reusable, and versatile materials that considerably improve floc separation in conventional settling tanks or via alternative screening separation methods. In this study, the effectiveness of fiber -based materials for wastewater treatment was evaluated at labscale (0.25 L) and at pilot -scale (20 L) for two separation methods, namely settling and screening. For the fiberbased method, the performance of floc separation during settling was slightly affected by an 80x upscaling factor. A small decrease in turbidity removal from 93 and 86 % was observed for the jar and pilot tests, respectively. By contrast, the turbidity removal of the conventional treatment, i.e., no fibers with a settling separation, was largely affected by the upscaling with turbidity removals of 84 and 49 % for jar and pilot tests, respectively. Therefore, results are suggesting that fiber -based super -bridging agents could be implemented in full-scale water treatment plants. Moreover, the tested fibers increase the robustness of treatment by providing better floc removal than conventional treatment under several challenging conditions such as low settling time and screening with coarse screen mesh size. Furthermore, at both lab -scale and pilot -scale, the use of fiber -based materials reduced the demand for coagulant and flocculant, potentially lowering the operational costs of water treatment plants and reducing the accumulation of metal -based coagulants and synthetic polymers in sludge. Acute toxicity tests using the model organism Daphnia magna show that the cellulose fibers introduce insignificant toxicity at the optimized fiber concentration. Although dedicated mechanistic studies are required at various scales to understand in detail the influence of fibers on water treatment (coagulation/flocculation time, floc formation, floc size distribution velocity gradient, etc.), the efficacy and scalability of the fiber -based approach, along with its minimal environmental impact, position it as a viable and sustainable option for existing and future wastewater treatment plants.
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