Process to treat industrial wastewater
AssigneeYara International Asa
InventorsTim Corben, Wolfram Franke, Marina Ettl, Jan Hilmers
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Abstract
The present invention concerns a process for treatment of industrial waste water containing both easy biodegradable and heavy biodegradable matter wherein the process comprises the two steps of first treating the waste water in a bioreactor wherein a nitrate solution is added and secondly treating the waste water in a chemical oxidation step wherein an oxidizer, permanganate, is added.
Claims16
A process for the treatment of industrial waste water comprising organic matters, the process comprising:
- first conducting a biological treatment step by treating the waste water in an anaerobe bioreactor by adding a nitrate solution in an amount of between 0.4 kg/m3 and 0.8 kg/m3 to the waste water, and optionally, removing sludge formed in the biological treatment step,
- wherein signals of probes for pH and oxygen reduction potential (ORP) in the anaerobe bioreactor are used to control and monitor the biological treatment step and modify the amount of the nitrate solution added to the waste water, and
- second conducting a chemical oxidation step by treating the waste water in a second reactor by adding an amount of a permanganate oxidizer to the waste water to reduce an amount of non-biological degradable compounds in the waste water,
- wherein signals of probes for organics in an effluent of the second reactor are used to control and monitor the chemical oxidation step and modify the amount of the permanganate oxidizer added to the waste water,
- wherein the process is controlled via an integrated controlling system that is capable of handling remote sensors and is programmable, and wherein the system is part of a network, and incorporates a database server and a web server to communicate with a human.
The process according to 8, wherein the network based control system comprises a wireless network to establish communication between control units, the data base server, and an interactive interfaced.
An integrated controlling system suitable for controlling the treatment of industrial waste water comprising organic matters,
- wherein the treatment comprises a process of:
- first conducting a biological treatment step by treating the waste water in an anaerobe bioreactor by adding a nitrate solution in an amount of between 0.4 kg/m3 and 0.8 kg/m3 to the waste water, and optionally, removing sludge formed in the biological treatment step,
- wherein signals of probes for pH and oxygen reduction potential (ORP) in the anaerobe bioreactor are used to control and monitor the biological treatment step and modify the amount of the nitrate solution added to the waste water, and
- second conducting a chemical oxidation step by treating the waste water in a second reactor by adding an amount of a permanganate oxidizer to the waste water to reduce an amount of non-biological degradable compounds in the waste water,
- wherein signals of probes for organics in an effluent of the second reactor are used to control and monitor the chemical oxidation step and modify the amount of the permanganate oxidizer added to the waste water,
- wherein the process is controlled via an integrated controlling system that is capable of handling remote sensors and is programmable, and wherein the system is part of a network and incorporates a database server and a web server to communicate with a human.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.