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Combined methods for the treatment of a typical hardwood soaking basin wastewater from plywood industry

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In this research, various combinations of physicochemical (coagulation, Fenton process and ozonation) and biological (aerobic oxidation) treatment methods were used to purify wastewater originating from wood soaking basins in plywood production industry. Although the wastewater has good biodegradability (92 %), there is a high fraction of organic material expressed as recalcitrant chemical oxygen demand (COD) of approximately 360 mg L−1. High fraction of organics is caused by wood-originating water-soluble material, i.e. extractives, including lignin and tannins. It was found that optimal treatment method for hardwood soaking basin wastewater is the combination of biological pre-treatment, chemical treatment with Fenton reagent and biological post-treatment. Under optimal conditions of combined process performance, up to 99 % removal of the organic loads, nitrogen and phenols was achieved. Besides achieving target discharge limits stated for industrial wastewater, the effluent met the requirements set for municipal wastewater treatment plants, making the treated water acceptable for subsequent discharge into natural water bodies: treated water COD = 90 ± 3 mg L−1; BOD7 = 10 ± 1 mg L−1. The main result of the present work was the establishment of sustainable, efficient and economically feasible process to treat the wastewater with minimised chemicals consumption. This differs considerably from approaches such as coagulation or wet oxidation, used to treat similar water types according to the literature, and is readily applicable for the production facilities of various scales, including small and medium enterprises, without the need to make changes in existing technological schemes.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to express their gratitude to the financial support of the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund project CHEMBIO (code 3.2.0802.11-0043) and the institutional research funding IUT1-7 and IUT20-16 of the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research. The authors would also like to thank Nadežda Vidinjova M.Sc. for her technical assistance.

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Tallinn University of Technology, Ehitajate tee 5, 19086, Tallinn, Estonia

    D. Klauson, E. Kattel, M. Viisimaa, N. Dulova & M. Trapido

  2. Department of Chemistry, University of Tartu, Ravila 14a, 50411, Tartu, Estonia

    K. Klein, A. Kivi, S. Velling & T. Tenno

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Klauson, D., Klein, K., Kivi, A. et al. Combined methods for the treatment of a typical hardwood soaking basin wastewater from plywood industry. Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. 12, 3575–3586 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-015-0777-2

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