Removal of pharmaceuticals in conventionally treated wastewater by a polishing moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) with intermittent feeding.

Abstract:

:Previous studies have demonstrated that aerobic moving bed biofilm reactors (MBBRs) remove pharmaceuticals better than activated sludge. Thus we used a MBBR system to polish the effluent of an activated sludge wastewater treatment plant. To overcome that effluent contains insufficient organic matter to sustain enough biomass, the biofilm was intermittently fed with raw wastewater. The capacity of pharmaceutical degradation was investigated by spiking pharmaceuticals. Actual removal during treatment was assessed by sampling the inlets and outlets of reactors. The removal of the majority of pharmaceuticals was enhanced through the intermittent feeding of the MBBR. First-order rate constants for pharmaceutical removal, normalised to biomass, were significantly higher compared to other studies on activated sludge and suspended biofilms, especially for diclofenac, metoprolol and atenolol. Due to the intermittently feeding, degradation of diclofenac occurred with a half-life of only 2.1h and was thus much faster than any hitherto described wastewater bioreactor treatment.

journal_name

Bioresour Technol

journal_title

Bioresource technology

authors

Tang K,Ooi GTH,Litty K,Sundmark K,Kaarsholm KMS,Sund C,Kragelund C,Christensson M,Bester K,Andersen HR

doi

10.1016/j.biortech.2017.03.159

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2017-07-01 00:00:00

pages

77-86

eissn

0960-8524

issn

1873-2976

pii

S0960-8524(17)30441-8

journal_volume

236

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