Membrane aerated anaerobic granular sludge reactor with efficient nitrogen removal and greenhouse gas mitigation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10604430-B2
Application number	US-201816228911-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 21, 2018
Priority date	Dec 29, 2017
Publication date	Mar 31, 2020
Grant date	Mar 31, 2020

Abstract

The present invention discloses a novel membrane aerated anaerobic granular sludge reactor, belonging to the technical field of sewage treatment. The reactor solves the problems of low solubility of gas substances in an aqueous solution, large gas-liquid mass transfer resistance and low mass transfer rate. The top of a reactor body is provided with a water outlet, and the middle side wall of the reactor body is provided with a middle water outlet; the middle water outlet of the reactor body is connected with an water inlet of a membrane module; an water outlet of the membrane module is connected with a bottom water inlet of the reactor body through a circulating pump, a water inlet is connected with the bottom water inlet of the reactor body through a feed pump, a high pressure or pressurized gas cylinder outputs high pressure or pressurized gas to the membrane module, and a gas pressure regulating valve is arranged between the high pressure or pressurized gas cylinder and the membrane module. The novel membrane aerated anaerobic granular sludge reactor improves the content of a gas substrate therein, and shortens the formation time of granular sludge. The efficient nitrogen removal and greenhouse gas emission reduction method has higher nitrate and ammonia removal rates and a higher dissolved methane removal rate within a shorter time.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A novel membrane aerated anaerobic granular sludge reactor, comprising a feed pump, a reactor body, a membrane module, a circulating pump, a gas pressure regulating valve and a pressurized gas cylinder, wherein a top of the reactor body is cylindrical, a diameter of the top of the reactor body is greater than that of a middle of the reactor body, a joint of the top of the reactor body and the middle of the reactor body is in a circular truncated cone shape, and a bottom of the reactor body is conical;
wherein the bottom of the reactor body is provided with a bottom water inlet, the top of the reactor body is provided with a water outlet, and a middle side wall of the reactor body is provided with a middle water outlet;
wherein the membrane module is provided with a water inlet and a water outlet, and the middle water outlet of the reactor body is connected with the water inlet of the membrane module;
wherein the water outlet of the membrane module is connected with the bottom water inlet of the reactor body through the circulating pump, a water inlet is connected with the bottom water inlet of the reactor body through the feed pump, the pressurized gas cylinder outputs pressurized gas to the membrane module, and the gas pressure regulating valve is arranged between the pressurized gas cylinder and the membrane module.

2. The novel membrane aerated anaerobic granular sludge reactor of claim 1 , wherein gas in the pressurized gas cylinder is a pressurized mixed gas of 95% of methane and 5% of carbon dioxide.

3. A method for efficient nitrogen removal and greenhouse gas mitigation using the novel membrane aerated anaerobic granular sludge reactor of claim 1 , comprising the following steps:
(a) inoculating in the novel membrane aerated anaerobic granular sludge reactor by putting enriched flocculent sludge containing denitrifying anaerobic methane oxidation bacteria, denitrifying anaerobic methane oxidation archaea and anaerobic ammonia oxidation functional microorganisms, and anaerobic granular sludge into the reactor, and regulating concentrations of nitrate and ammonium in the reactor by adding nitrate concentrate and ammonium concentrate in proportion to volume of the novel membrane aerated anaerobic granular sludge reactor into the novel membrane aerated anaerobic granular sludge reactor, concentrations of the nitrate and the ammonium in the reactor being respectively improved by 25 mg-N/L by 1 ml of nitrate and ammonium concentrates; controlling pressure of pressurized mixed gas of 95% of methane and 5% of carbon dioxide by a gas pressure regulating valve, and connecting the pressurized mixed gas to a membrane aerated device, the pressurized mixed gas being rapidly dissolved into a liquid phase of the anaerobic granular sludge reactor through the membrane module to provide a growth substrate for the denitrifying anaerobic methane oxidation microorganisms;
(b) reducing, by the denitrifying anaerobic methane oxidation archaea in the granular sludge, the nitrate into nitrite by using a dissolved methane generated by membrane aerated as electron donors, for the anaerobic ammonia oxidation and denitrifying anaerobic methane oxidation bacteria to use; reducing, by the denitrifying anaerobic methane oxidation bacteria, the nitrite into nitrogen by using methane as a reducing agent; generating, by the anaerobic ammonia oxidation microorganisms, nitrate and nitrogen by using ammonium and the nitrite; wherein nitrate generated in the anaerobic ammonia oxidation process is capable of being used by the denitrifying anaerobic methane oxidation archaea;
(c) controlling operating temperature of the novel membrane aerated anaerobic granular sludge reactor to 30-352° C., maintaining pH value at 7.08, controlling gas pressure in the novel membrane aerated anaerobic granular sludge reactor to 0.02-0.1 MPa, taking a liquid phase sample from the novel membrane aerated anaerobic granular sludge reactor every day, detecting the sample to obtain a concentrations of nitrate and ammonia in the novel membrane aerated anaerobic granular sludge reactor, and when the concentration of nitrate is less than 100 mg-N/L, adding nitrate and ammonium concentrates to the reactor to keep the concentration of nitrate in the reactor to 300 mg-N/L or more;
(d) after the novel membrane aerated anaerobic granular sludge reactor is operated for 50 days, enriching the denitrifying anaerobic methane oxidation bacteria and anaerobic ammonia oxidation bacteria that have gradually become dominant strains in a system, wherein the functional microorganisms in the novel membrane aerated anaerobic granular sludge reactor mainly exist in the form of flocculent sludge, at this time, consumption rate of the nitrate is capable of reaching about 90 mg-N/L/day and consumption rate of the ammonia is 60 mg-N/L/day, and removal effect of the dissolved methane is capable of reaching 42 mg/L/day;
(e) after the reactor is operated for 100 days, starting to granulate sludge containing denitrifying anaerobic methane oxidation bacteria and anaerobic ammonia oxidation bacteria to form mostly circular or elliptic sludge that is obvious in regular shapes and has a grain diameter of 500-1000 μm in the novel membrane aerated anaerobic granular sludge reactor, wherein at this time, the consumption rate of the nitrate is capable of reaching about 1240 mg-N/L/day and the consumption rate of the ammonia is 200 mg-N/L/day, and the removal effect of the dissolved methane is capable of reaching about 95 mg/L/day; and
(f) after 100 days of continuous operation, a grain diameter of the sludge becoming larger, granular sludge having been formed, the grain diameter of the sludge reaching 800-2000 μm, the consumption rates of the nitrate and the ammonia being significantly increased, a final consumption rate of the nitrate reaching 400 mg-N/L/day or more, the consumption rate of the ammonia reaching 300 mg-N/L/day or more, removal effect of the dissolved methane in water reaching about 170 mg/L/day or more, nitrate and ammonium carrying capacity of the novel membrane aerated anaerobic granular sludge reactor being enhanced, tolerant concentration of the nitrate reaching 800 mg-N/L or more, and a tolerant concentration of the ammonium reaching 800 mg-N/L or more.

Assignees

• Harbin Inst Technology

Inventors

• Xie Guojun
• Fan Shengqiang
• Ren Nanqi
• Liu Bingfeng
• Xing Defeng
• Ding Jie

Classifications

• C02F2209/15

  N03-N · CPC title

• C02F3/006

  Regulation methods for biological treatment · CPC title

• C02F2305/06

  Nutrients for stimulating the growth of microorganisms · CPC title

• C02F2209/02

  Temperature · CPC title

• C02F2209/225

  in the gas phase · CPC title