Device for Treating Wastewater Comprising Nitrogen and Phosphorus and a Method for the Same

a technology of wastewater and nitrogen, applied in the direction of membranes, filtration separation, separation processes, etc., can solve the problems of difficult control of treatment efficiency, low treatment efficiency of nitrogen and phosphorus, and inability to provide stable treatment of wastewater, so as to improve the removal efficiency of pollutants nitrogen, save the cost of microalgae culture medium preparation, and improve the effect of nitrogen removal efficiency

Inactive Publication Date: 2011-10-13
KOREA INST OF SCI & TECH
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[0013]The device and method for treating nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater provide the following advantageous effects.
[0014]Since wastewater is used as a culture medium instead of an artificial microalgal culture medium, the cost of microalgae culture medium preparation can be saved. Further, the pollutants nitrogen and phosphorus included in the wastewater can be treated as the microalgae are cultured.
[0015]Since only the treated water with decreased amount of nitrogen and phosphorus can be discharged selectively using the separation membrane, continuous culturing is possible whereby the microalgae are cultured while continuously supplying the wastewater. As a result, microalgal concentration in the culture tank can be maintained high. The continuous culturing of microalgae at high concentrations improves the removal efficiency of the pollutants nitrogen and phosphorus included in the wastewater and allows a stable treatment of the wastewater. Thus, water pollution can be minimized.
[0016]Moreover, since the microalgae which may be the source of feed and bioenergy are cultured at high concentrations, the efforts required to concentrate the recovered microalgae can be reduced.

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However, because they aim at cultivation of algae, they do not provide stable treatment of wastewater.
However, these techniques are restricted in that the water a river, lake, marsh, sewage treatment facility, or the like has to be used as it is, the treatment efficiency of nitrogen and phosphorus is low because algal growth cannot be controlled artificially, and it is very difficult to control the treatment efficiency.
Further, the use of periphytic algae or algae existing in given systems makes it difficult to stably produce and recover the microalgae which may be used as sources of feed or other useful materials such as biodiesel.

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[0058]The examples (and experiments) will now be described. The following examples (and experiments) are for illustrative purposes only and not intended to limit the scope of this disclosure.

[Example] Growth of Algae Using Device for Culturing Microalgae and Change in Water Quality

[0059]Experiment was carried out as follows in order to confirm the effect of culturing microalgae at high concentrations and improving water quality of the device for treating nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater shown in FIG. 1. Ankistrodesmus gracilis [SAG278-2: KCTC AG20745; acquired from Biological Resource Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)] and actual wastewater were used. Culturing was carried out under the condition: illumination intensity=580-600 Lx, temperature=25±5° C., air supply rate=10 L / min, HRT=12 hours, and SRT=25 days.

[0060]FIGS. 5 and 6 show changes of concentration of suspended solids (SS) and chlorophyll-a in the algal culture tank, and FIGS. 7...

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Abstract

Disclosed are a device for treating nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater, including: an algal culture tank for culturing microalgae capable of treating nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater; and a separation membrane for separating thus treated water from the microalgae, and a method for the same.According to the disclosed device and method, microalgae are cultured at high concentrations using wastewater, instead of an artificial culture medium, as a culture medium. As a result, nitrogen and phosphorus can be effectively treated from the wastewater, and the microalgae, which are useful as a biomass, may be cultured and recovered stably.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION[0001]This application claims priority to Korean Patent Application No. 10-2010-0031890, filed on 2010.04.07, and all the benefits accruing therefrom under 35 U.S.C. §119, the contents of which in its entirety are herein incorporated by reference.BACKGROUND[0002]1. Field[0003]This disclosure relates to a device and a method for treating nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater, more particularly to a device and a method for treating nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater whereby microalgae capable of treating nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater are continuously cultured at high concentrations without the need of supplying an artificial culture medium.[0004]2. Description of the Related Art[0005]Recently, with regard to the problem of global warming caused by carbon dioxide emission and the efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emission globally, microalgae are gaining a lot of attentions.[0006]Since microalgae can fix carbon dioxide biologically ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): C02F3/32B01D35/00
CPCA01H4/001B01D2311/04B01D2315/06C02F1/444C02F3/1273C12M29/04C02F2101/105C02F2101/16C02F2103/20C12M21/02C02F3/322Y02W10/37Y02W10/10
Inventor SONG, KYUNG GUENAHN, KYU HONGCHO, KANG WOOCHO, JIN WOOOH, HAE SEOKKI, DONG WON
Owner KOREA INST OF SCI & TECH
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