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Biological treatment of Grand Forks Energy Technology Center slagging fixed-bed coal gasification process wastewater. Eleventh quarterly report

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5368799

A wastewater biological treatability study was performed with effluent from the Grand Forks Energy Technology Center slagging fixed-bed coal gasification process. Bench-scale air activated sludge reactors were used to determine minimum dilution requirements, maximum acceptable loadings, biological treatment kinetic coefficients, and other performance characteristics. It was found that ammonia stripped wastewater could be processed reliably at 33% strength at substrate removal rates less than approximately 0.6 mg COD removed/mg MLVSS-day. The wastewater when diluted to 33% strength contained highest reported concentration of organic contaminants in coal conversion effluents processed successfully by air activated sludge. The bacterial yield coefficient for treatment of 33% strength stripped wastewater was 0.29 COD basis, the endogenous respiration rate coefficient was 0.038 day/sup -1/, COD basis. Raw wastewater with no ammonia removed could be processed at 40% strength. Nitrification was feasible with both stripped and unstripped wastewater. COD removal rates which impaired nitrification were dependent on ammonia loading, as nitrification could be sustained at higher values of substrate rate with unstripped wastewater than was observed with stripped wastewater.

Research Organization:
Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (USA). Center for Energy and Environmental Studies
DOE Contract Number:
EX-76-S-01-2496
OSTI ID:
5368799
Report Number(s):
FE-2496-42
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English