Degradation efficiency and molecular size alteration during the aerobic microbial treatment of lignite pyrolysis deposit water |
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Authors: | G G S Martius A Wießner U Stottmeister |
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Institution: | (1) UFZ Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle, Department of Remediation Research, PF2, D-04301 Leipzig, Germany. Fax: (0341) 235 2492, DE |
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Abstract: | Investigations into aerobic biological degrada-tion were carried out as part of an extensive programme designed to facilitate
the cheap remediation of a pyrolysis waste-water deposit. Attention was focused on the processes of carbon conversion by different
populations. The susceptibility of a body of lignite-processing deposit water to microbiological degradation was examined
in batch investigations in a Sapromat system and in continuous bench-scale fermenter cultivations, with respect to nutrient
supply, inoculation culture and molecular size distribution. It was found that degradation best occurs with an adapted mixed
culture. The autochthonous culture removes 30% less dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and has a 40% higher specific oxygen demand.
A shortage of phosphorus, investigated with a view to avoiding additional eutrophication problems in the open water in the
case of in situ remediation, causes reduced DOC degrada-tion and significantly higher specific oxygen demand. The biological
process is overlapped by abiotic oxidation. During aerobic treatment, a concentration of colour-giving aromatic substances
of between 0.5 kDa and 5 kDa was observed. This phenomenon is caused by the oxidation of low- and high-molecular-mass compounds.
The removal of DOC is limited to 65% and mainly occurs in the range below 0.5 kDa (30%) and in the 0.5–1 kDa range (12%);
the removal is negligible in the ranges 1–3 kDa (0.8%) and 3–5 kDa (2%) and a little higher in the ranges 5 kDa–0.3 μm (5%)
and above 0.3 μm (6%). In the investigations it was discovered that DOC removal causes in the ranges below 0.5 kDa, 0.5–1
kDa and 5 kDa–0.3 μm mainly as a result of degradation, but the range above 0.3 μm is chiefly caused by bioadsorption. Aerobic
microbiological treatment is able to remove most low-molecular-mass substances. In order to remove the macromolecular and
colour-giving part of the deposit water, an additional treatment stage, e.g. flocculation, is required.
Received: 10 October 1995/Received revision: 9 January 1996/Accepted: 15 January 1996 |
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