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Combination of Fenton oxidation and sequencing batch membrane bioreactor for treatment of dry-spun acrylic fiber wastewater

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Dry-spun acrylic fiber (DAF) is typically synthesized by the polymerization of acrylonitrile (AN) monomers under high-temperature conditions. DAF manufacturing factories produce DAF polymerization and AN manufacturing wastewaters that are complex, toxic and bio-refractory. In this study, a bench-scale combined Fenton-sequencing batch membrane bioreactor (SBMBR) process was developed for DAF wastewater treatment. Fenton oxidation was used for the pretreatment of DAF polymerization wastewater, with which the COD removal efficiency exceeded 47.0 % under the optimum conditions of H2O2 90.0 mM, Fe2+ 20.0 mM, pH value 3.0, and reaction time 120 min. The pretreatment increased the BOD5/COD ratio of DAF polymerization wastewater from 0.35 to 0.69 and observably decreased the toxicity (assessed with the Vibrio fisheri bacteria light loss) from 92.0 to 32.0 %. As for the biological treatment, the mixture liquor of Fenton effluent and AN manufacturing wastewater was fed to a bench-scale SBMBR system. Under the designed operation conditions, the average COD, NH4 +–N and TN removal efficiencies reached 82.5, 98.4 and 74.6 %, respectively. The final effluent of SBMBR could steadily meet the National Discharge Standard of China of Grade I (GB8978-1996). The polyvinylidene fluoride flat-plate membranes used in this study showed excellent anti-fouling performance throughout the operation period.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by The National Key Scientific and Technological Project for Water Pollution Control and Management (2012ZX07202-002 and 2012ZX07202-005) and the Sino-French International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Project for Petrochemical and Pharmaceutical Industrial Water Conservation and Pollution Reduction Cooperative Research (2010DFB90590-03). The authors also thank the French National Agency for Research (ANR) for financial funding through the grant ANR-10-ECOT-0011.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Dayangfang 8, Anwai Beiyuan, Beijing, 100012, China

    Jian Wei, Yonghui Song & Xiaoguang Meng

  2. Scientific and Technological Innovation Base of Urban Water Environmental Research, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China

    Jian Wei, Yonghui Song & Xiaoguang Meng

  3. Université de Toulouse, LISBP, INSA, 135 Avenue de Rangueil, 31077, Toulouse, France

    Jian Wei & Jean-Stéphane Pic

  4. Center for Environmental Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, 07030, USA

    Xiaoguang Meng

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Wei, J., Song, Y., Meng, X. et al. Combination of Fenton oxidation and sequencing batch membrane bioreactor for treatment of dry-spun acrylic fiber wastewater. Environ Earth Sci 73, 4911–4921 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-015-4091-6

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