Treatment of regenerated papermaking wastewater by sequencing batch moving bed biofilm reactor and kinetics study
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Abstract This study evaluated the use of three Sequencing Batch Moving Bed Biofilm Reactors (SBMBBR) with Mutag biochip 30™ (MB) carriers for treating regenerated papermaking wastewater. The reactors operated at filling ratios of 15 % (MB15), 30 % (MB30), and 45 % (MB45). Biomass stabilized after 30 days, reaching 2.26 g/L, 4.01 g/L, and 5.58 g/L, respectively. The process parameters of the reactors were optimized using Response Surface Methodology (RSM). Under conditions of a C/N ratio of 21:1, an aeration rate (AR) of 2.65 L/min, a hydraulic retention time (HRT) of 9 h, and a 45 % filling ratio, the chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal efficiency of the wastewater achieved the highest value of 68.28 ± 2.03 %, with the average effluent COD reduced to approximately 170 mg/L while ammonia nitrogen and total nitrogen were below 10 mg/L and 15 mg/L, meeting the discharge standards for recycled paper mill wastewater in China. Kinetic analysis using an improved Stover-Kincannon model showed good fitting (R 2 > 0.93) and the highest degradation rate (U max ) of 2.6413 g/Lday in the MB45 reactor. These results support SBMBBR’s potential for treating papermaking wastewater and addressing challenges in other industrial wastewater treatments.
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OpenAlex topics: Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal · Recycling and Waste Management Techniques · Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment
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College of Light Industry Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, South China University of Technology , Guangzhou 510640 , China
Department of Resources and Environment , Guizhou Engineering Research Center for Comprehensive Utilization of Distillers’ Grains, Moutai Institute , Renhuai 564507 , China
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Lirong Lei · Liu Xiaoming
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