JP2009220020A - Wastewater treatment system and its operation method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for preventing the blocking of a separation membrane caused by a return flow of the separated water from a dehydrator to an activated sludge tank without providing expensive facilities for decomposing propagated excess sludge. <P>SOLUTION: This wastewater treatment apparatus includes an adjusting tank for adjusting water to be treated, an aeration tank for subjecting the water to be treated to aeration treatment and a membrane separator for subjecting activated sludge provided in the aeration tank to membrane separation, and includes a dehydrator for dehydrating the excess sludge from the aeration tank and a treatment tank for subjecting the separated liquid produced from the dehydrator by the dehydration treatment to preset a predetermined treatment without returning the same to the adjusting tank or aeration tank. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to wastewater treatment for purifying raw water such as factory wastewater and domestic wastewater. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for treating water to be treated by activated sludge treatment in which a separation membrane is installed.

  Biological treatment is performed as a method of treating organic wastewater such as factory wastewater and domestic wastewater. As a typical biological treatment method, there is an activated sludge method in which microorganisms are aerobically grown while supplying air to an aeration tank to remove pollutants in wastewater. In this activated sludge method, a method of removing not only organic substances but also pollutants such as nitrogen and phosphorus by combining an anaerobic tank is widely performed.

Furthermore, a membrane separation activated sludge method in which treated water is separated from activated sludge by a membrane has begun to be used. The membrane-separated activated sludge method can be operated with a high concentration of MLSS, the volume of activated sludge tanks such as aeration tanks and anaerobic tanks can be reduced, and SS outflow to treated water can be almost completely prevented.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2007-160147

  In the treatment of activated sludge, the excess sludge extracted from the activated sludge tank is concentrated in the sludge concentration tank, and after this concentrated sludge is stored in the sludge storage tank, a flocculant is added and then dehydrated by a dehydrator, followed by dehydration treatment. In some cases, the separation liquid separated by the above is returned to the adjustment tank or the activated sludge tank.

However, in the membrane separation activated sludge method, if the dewatering separation water returned to the adjustment tank or the activated sludge tank contains a flocculant, the flocculant circulates in the denitrification tank, aeration tank, and dehydrator. There is a problem that the concentration of the flocculant increases and the separation membrane of the submerged membrane separation device is blocked. Moreover, the sludge stored in the sludge storage tank becomes anaerobic and produces metal sulfides such as iron sulfide, and the sludge that has become anaerobic is returned as separated water. Such sulfides coat the membrane surface and cause rapid membrane clogging. Alternatively, there has been a problem that the separation membrane is clogged by being oxidized in an aeration tank to generate simple sulfur.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and in the case where the surplus sludge thus proliferated is dehydrated by a dehydrator without providing an expensive facility for decomposing the surplus proliferated sludge, the separated water from the dehydrator is activated sludge. It aims at providing the method of preventing the blockage | separation of the separation membrane which arises by returning to a tank.

  In the present invention, in order to solve the above-mentioned problem, an adjustment tank for adjusting the water to be treated, an aeration tank for aeration treatment of the water to be treated, and a membrane separation apparatus provided in the aeration tank for membrane separation of activated sludge A wastewater treatment apparatus equipped with a dehydrator for dewatering excess sludge from an aeration tank, and a predetermined process set in advance without returning the separation liquid generated by the dehydration process by the dehydrator to the adjustment tank or the aeration layer It is a waste water treatment apparatus characterized by having a processing tank which performs.

  According to the above configuration, the flocculant added to the activated sludge before dehydration by the dehydrator and the dehydrator separation liquid containing sulfide are not returned to the treatment process before the separation process by the membrane separation device. Can prevent clogging of the separation membrane.

  Further, in the present invention, a wastewater treatment apparatus further comprising a sludge agglomeration tank that directly takes out and agglomerates excess sludge from the aeration tank, and the dehydrator dehydrates the activated sludge agglomerated in the sludge agglomeration tank. It is.

  According to the above configuration, the activated sludge obtained from the aeration tank is directly led to the sludge agglomeration tank, and the flocculant is added to agglomerate, so there is no decay of sludge, the dehydration efficiency by the dehydrator is improved, and the separation liquid Can prevent sludge from flowing out. Furthermore, since there is no sludge decay, the soluble BOD concentration, the soluble phosphorus concentration, or the soluble nitrogen concentration in the separation liquid does not increase. Therefore, clear treated water can be obtained by separating a small amount of sludge that has flowed into the separation liquid.

  In the present invention, the separation tank for separating the sludge that has flowed into the separation liquid from the dehydrator, the path for discharging the clarified water separated in the separation tank, and the path for re-directing the separated sludge separated in the separation tank to the dehydrator Is a wastewater treatment apparatus characterized by further comprising:

  In the present invention, the treatment tank is a wastewater treatment apparatus characterized by being a sedimentation tank for precipitating sludge in the separation liquid or a pressurized floating tank for pressurizing and floating the sludge being separated.

  Furthermore, in the present invention, a method for operating a wastewater treatment apparatus comprising an adjustment tank for adjusting treated water, an aeration tank for aeration treatment of treated water, and a membrane separation device provided in the aeration tank for membrane separation of activated sludge And it has a dehydration process which dehydrates surplus sludge from an aeration tank, and a processing process which performs predetermined processing set up beforehand without returning separation liquid generated by dehydration to an adjustment tank or an aeration layer This is a method for operating a wastewater treatment apparatus characterized by the following.

  According to the above configuration, the flocculant added to the activated sludge before dehydration by the dehydrator and the dehydrator separation liquid containing sulfide are not returned to the treatment process before the separation process by the membrane separation apparatus. The clogging of the separation membrane can be prevented.

  The present invention further includes a sludge aggregating step for directly taking out and aggregating excess sludge from the aeration tank, and the dewatering step dehydrates the activated sludge agglomerated in the sludge aggregating step. This is the driving method.

  The present invention also provides a separation step for separating sludge that has flowed into the separation liquid obtained in the dehydration step, a discharge step for discharging the clarified water separated in the separation step, and a separation sludge separated in the separation step to the dehydration step again. And a deriving step for guiding the waste water treatment apparatus.

  In the present invention, the treatment step includes at least one of a precipitation step for precipitating the sludge in the separation liquid and a pressure levitation step for pressurizing and floating the sludge being separated. It is a driving method.

  According to the present invention, the separated water from the dehydrator is returned to the activated sludge tank in the case where the surplus sludge thus proliferated is dehydrated by the dehydrator without providing an expensive facility for decomposing the proliferated surplus sludge. Thus, it is possible to provide a method for preventing the dehydrating performance of the dehydrator from being lowered and the separation membrane from being blocked.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

  In the membrane separation activated sludge method, sludge is separated by membrane separation instead of sedimentation. Examples of membranes used for membrane separation include MF membranes and UF membranes, and the membrane materials are organic materials such as polyethylene, PVDF, cellulose acetate, Teflon (registered trademark), polyethersulfone, polysulfone, polyacrylonitrile, and polyvinyl alcohol. Alternatively, an inorganic material such as ceramic is used.

  Separation membrane is immersed in the aeration tank and the sludge is separated by suction filtration. The separation membrane is installed outside the aeration tank to separate the sludge, and the separated sludge is returned to the aeration tank. There is. FIG. 1 shows an outline of a wastewater treatment apparatus using a submerged membrane separation apparatus according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the wastewater treatment apparatus according to the present invention has an adjustment tank 1, an aeration tank 2, and a membrane permeate water storage tank, and water to be treated 14 is pumped between the tanks by pumps 8 and 10. Moving. A submerged membrane separation device 3 is disposed in the aeration tank 2.

  In addition, the wastewater treatment apparatus according to the present invention draws out the surplus activated sludge generated in the aeration tank 2, adds a flocculant, and flakes into the sludge aggregation tank 5 that aggregates sludge, the dehydrator 6, and the separation liquid 18 from the dehydrator 6. It has the sludge concentration tank 7 which is a separation tank which isolate | separates sludge. Moreover, it has the path | route which discharges the clarified water isolate | separated with the sludge concentration tank 7 as a treated water. Furthermore, it has the path | route which guides the sludge isolate | separated from the separation liquid 18 by the concentrated sludge extraction pump 12 to the dehydrator 6 through the sludge aggregation tank 5.

  The treated water 14 flows into the adjustment tank 1 and is then sent to the aeration tank 2 by the adjustment tank pump 8. The activated sludge mixed solution in the aeration tank 2 is filtered by the submerged membrane separation device 3, and the membrane permeated water sucked and filtered by the suction pump 10 is stored in the membrane permeated water storage tank 4 and then discharged as treated water 15. . The submerged membrane separation device 3 performs back pressure washing by causing the membrane permeated water stored in the membrane permeated water storage tank 4 to flow backward by the back washing pump 11 at regular intervals. Furthermore, in-line cleaning is periodically performed by injecting membrane permeate added with sodium hypochlorite, citric acid or oxalic acid. When clogging further progresses, the immersion film 3 is pulled up and chemical immersion cleaning is performed. The chemical used is the same as that used for in-line cleaning.

  The MLSS of the activated sludge in the aeration tank 2 is maintained at an appropriate concentration by extracting the excess sludge 17 by the excess sludge extraction pump 9. The activated sludge extracted as the excess sludge 17 is sent to the sludge agglomeration tank 5, where an inorganic flocculant or a polymer flocculant is added and agglomerated, and then dehydrated by the dehydrator 6, and the dehydrated sludge 13 is removed from the field. It is carried out.

The flocculants used are inorganic flocculants such as polyaluminum chloride, aluminum sulfate, ferric chloride, ferric sulfate, polyiron, slaked lime, (and / or) anionic polymer flocculants, or cationic high flocculants A molecular flocculant is used.

  Examples of the dehydrator include a belt press, a screw press, a centrifugal dehydrator, and a filter press, but are not limited thereto. The dewatering performance of the dehydrator is determined by the state of sludge aggregation, and the selection of a flocculant used for sludge aggregation is very important.

  A dehydrator separation liquid 18 which is a separated liquid from the dehydrator 6 is sent to a sludge concentration tank 7 (for example, a sedimentation tank or a pressure levitation tank), and the sludge that has been settled and concentrated is sludge aggregated again by a concentrated sludge extraction pump 12. Returned to the tank 5, the supernatant water 16 of the sludge concentration tank is discharged as treated water 15.

  Hereinafter, detailed examples of the present invention will be described.

  Fig. 2 shows an outline of the waste liquid treatment equipment in which four external pressure PVDF precision hollow fiber membrane modules (manufactured by Asahi Kasei Co., Ltd.) (membrane area 100m2) are used as one unit, and a four-unit immersion membrane separator is immersed in the aeration tank 2. Shown in Using this apparatus, vegetable juice manufacturing factory wastewater was treated.

  The processing apparatus shown in FIG. 2 has the same configuration as the waste liquid processing apparatus shown in FIG. 1 except that a denitrification tank 19 is installed in the previous stage of the aeration tank 2.

  As raw water quality, treated water 14 of BOD 1500 mg / L and nitrogen 80 mg / L was stored in the adjustment tank 1 and transferred from the adjustment tank 1 to the denitrification tank 19 by the adjustment tank pump 8.

  The mixed liquid that has flowed into the aeration tank 2 (nitrification tank) is decomposed by MLSS in the aeration tank 2, the oxidation of ammonia nitrogen to nitrite nitrogen by ammonia oxidizing bacteria, and the nitrite state by nitrate bacteria An oxidation treatment of nitrogen to nitrate nitrogen is performed. The amount of air used for the oxidation treatment was an aeration amount that kept the dissolved oxygen concentration in the aeration tank 2 at about 1 mg / L.

  Further, the surplus sludge extraction pump 9 directly draws out the mixed liquid in the aeration tank to the sludge agglomeration tank 5 so that the MLSS concentration becomes 8000 to 15000 mg / L, and the extracted excess sludge uses polyiron in the agglomeration tank 5. Then, they were agglomerated and dehydrated with a belt press type dehydrator 6.

  A part of the mixed liquid flowing into the aeration tank 2 from the denitrification tank 19 is processed in the aeration tank 2 and then suction filtered by the suction pump 10 connected to the submerged membrane separation device 3 to be a membrane permeated water storage tank. 4 was stored as treated water 15. The remaining influent was returned to the denitrification tank as overflow water as an aeration tank mixture.

  In the denitrification tank 19, nitrate nitrogen contained in the mixed solution returned from the aeration tank 2 (nitrification tank) is reduced to nitrogen gas by denitrifying bacteria and denitrified. The denitrification tank mixed liquid denitrified is sent to the aeration tank 2 (nitrification tank) by the denitrification tank pump 20. As a result, the amount of liquid circulated and returned from the aeration tank 2 (nitrification tank) to the denitrification tank 19 was 2 to 6 times the amount of liquid flowing from the adjustment tank 1 into the denitrification tank 19.

  As water quality of the treated water 15, BOD was less than 10 mg / L, nitrogen concentration was less than 10 mg / L, and SS was almost less than 1 mg / L. Further, the membrane differential pressure after one month of operation was 20 kPa or less with respect to the initial suction membrane differential pressure of 15 kPa of the membrane separator 3, and stable operation was possible.

The water content of the dewatered sludge 13 dehydrated by the belt press type dehydrator 6 was 80% or less, and good dewatering was performed by pulling out the excess sludge directly from the aeration tank and dewatering it.
Moreover, there is no decay of sludge by retaining sludge in the sludge storage tank, and the SS of the separation liquid 18 from the dehydrator 6 is about 500 mg / L, and the sludge concentration tank supernatant water 16 treated in the sludge concentration tank 7b. The water quality was less than 50 mg / L for SS, less than 20 mg / L for BOD, and less than 10 mg / L for nitrogen concentration, and could be discharged.
<Comparative example>

  FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing a comparative experiment in which the separation liquid 18 of the dehydrator 6 is returned to the adjustment tank 1. Compared with FIG. 2, the excess sludge in the aeration tank 2 is temporarily stored in the sludge storage tank 21, and then sent to the sludge aggregation tank 5 by the transport pump 22, and the separation liquid 18 exiting from the dehydrator 6. Is returned to the adjustment tank 1.

  In the comparative example of FIG. 3, the excess sludge extracted by the excess sludge extraction pump 9 is stored in the sludge storage tank 21, sent to the sludge agglomeration tank 5 by the sludge transport pump 22, aggregated by polyiron, and then dehydrated by the dehydrator 6. The separation liquid 18 from the dehydrator was returned to the adjustment tank 1. Other operating conditions are the same as in the embodiment of FIG.

  About 1 week after the start of operation, the suction membrane differential pressure of the membrane separator exceeded 27 kPa, and in-line cleaning with sodium hypochlorite was performed using the backwash pump 11, but the suction membrane differential pressure was about 10%. Only showed recovery. Subsequently, in-line cleaning with citric acid was performed, but the suction film differential pressure showed only a recovery of about 20 to 25%, and the suction film differential pressure after in-line cleaning was about 23 kPa. The surface of the clogged hollow fiber membrane was covered with iron sulfide.

The preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above. However, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications may be made within the scope of the gist of the present invention described in the claims. It can be changed.

It is a flowchart which shows the membrane separation activated sludge apparatus used for this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the Example of the membrane separation activated sludge apparatus using this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the comparative example of a membrane separation activated sludge apparatus.

Explanation of symbols

1 Adjustment tank 2 Aeration tank (or nitrification tank)
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 3 Submerged membrane separator 4 Membrane permeated water storage tank 5 Sludge coagulation tank 6 Dehydrator 7 Sludge concentration tank 8 Adjustment tank pump 9 Excess sludge extraction pump 10 Suction pump 11 Backwash pump 12 Concentrated sludge extraction pump 13 Dehydrated sludge 14 Processed Water 15 Treated water 16 Sludge concentration tank supernatant water 17 Surplus sludge 18 Dehydrator separation liquid 19 Denitrification tank 20 Denitrification tank pump 21 Sludge storage tank 22 Sludge transfer pump

Claims (8)

A wastewater treatment apparatus comprising an adjustment tank for adjusting the water to be treated, an aeration tank for aeration treatment of the water to be treated, and a membrane separation device provided in the aeration tank for membrane separation of activated sludge,
A dehydrator for dewatering excess sludge from the aeration tank;
A wastewater treatment apparatus comprising: a treatment tank configured to perform a predetermined treatment set in advance without returning the separation liquid generated by the dehydration treatment by the dehydrator to the adjustment tank or the aeration layer. Further comprising a sludge flocculation tank that directly takes out and agglomerates excess sludge from the aeration tank;
The waste water treatment apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the dehydrator dehydrates the activated sludge aggregated in the sludge aggregation tank. A separation tank for separating sludge flowing out into the separation liquid from the dehydrator;
A path for discharging the clear water separated in the separation tank;
The wastewater treatment apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a path that guides the separated sludge separated in the separation tank to the dehydrator again. The said processing tank is a pressurization levitation tank which pressurizes and raises the sludge in the said separation liquid which precipitates the sludge in the said separation liquid, or the said separation liquid. The wastewater treatment apparatus as described. A method for operating a wastewater treatment apparatus comprising an adjustment tank for adjusting treated water, an aeration tank for aeration treatment of the treated water, and a membrane separation device provided in the aeration tank for membrane separation of activated sludge,
A dehydration step of dewatering excess sludge from the aeration tank;
And a processing step of performing a predetermined process set in advance without returning the separation liquid generated by the dehydration process to the adjustment tank or the aeration layer. Further comprising a sludge agglomeration step for directly taking out and aggregating excess sludge from the aeration tank;
The operation method of the wastewater treatment apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the dewatering step dehydrates the activated sludge aggregated in the sludge aggregation step. A separation step of separating sludge that has flowed into the separation liquid obtained in the dehydration step;
A discharge step of discharging the clear water separated in the separation step;
The operation method of the wastewater treatment apparatus according to claim 5 or 6, further comprising a derivation step for re-directing the separated sludge separated in the separation step to the dehydration step. 7. The process according to claim 5, wherein the treatment step includes at least one of a sedimentation step for precipitating sludge in the separation liquid and a pressure levitation step for pressurizing and floating the sludge being separated. The operation method of the waste water treatment apparatus in any one.

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