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Modification and Performance of a Rotating Biological Contactor for the Rectification of Synthetic Auramine O dye Wastewater

Khyati Kishorchandra Modi12 * and Kaushik krishnakumar Nath3

1 Department of Environmental Engineering, Government Engineering College, Valsad, Gujarat India

2 Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat India

3 Department of Chemical Engineering, G H Patel College of Engineering and Technology, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat India

Corresponding author Email: drkaushiknath2013@gmail.com

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.18.3.15

The disposal of domestic and industrial wastewater into the drainage/atmosphere without treatment is a major source of pollution that endangers the health of the population and needs to be controlled. Despite long been used as a secondary treatment strategy for wastewater, conventional rotating biological contactor (RBC) suffers from the drawbacks of limited surface area for the growth of biofilms. There are persistent problems of less oxygenation capacity, and inefficient mixing resulting in inadequate mass transfer. To address these issues conventional RBC has been modified in the present study by replacing a bank of discs using a rotating drum. The use of a rotating drum in RBC enhanced the biofilm attachment surface area up to 2.29 m2 (?108.2% higher than conventional RBC), thereby improving the working performance. To prevent the dissolved oxygen as a limiting factor, four small aerators were placed as supplement aeration system in the wastewater collection tank of modified RBC. To prevent the influence of atmospheric temperature on biological process, a blast-proof aquarium glass heater was placed in the tank. For experimental work, a 700 ppm pretreated synthetic solution of Auramine-O dye as wastewater was utilized. A constant level of percentage variation in biological oxygen demand (BOD) removal efficiency was observed after 15 days of the experiment. After day-15, the MLSS concentration increased to 2960 mg/L, and the BOD concentration reduced to 12.85 mg/L, resulting in a reduction of 89.86% in BOD, indicating the meeting of effluent discharge standards.

Biofilm; Biological oxygen demand; Chemical Oxygen demand; Dissolved Oxygen; Rotating biological contactor

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Modi K. K, Nath K. K. Modification and Performance of a Rotating Biological Contactor for the Rectification of Synthetic Auramine O dye Wastewater. Curr World Environ 2023;18(3). DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.18.3.15

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