Wastewater treatment device and wastewater treatment method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12060288-B2
Application number	US-202217670444-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 12, 2022
Priority date	Jul 28, 2016
Publication date	Aug 13, 2024
Grant date	Aug 13, 2024

Abstract

A wastewater treatment device has: an ozone generator which supplies ozone; a mixer which mixes ozone supplied from the ozone generator with wastewater and supplies ozone mixed wastewater; an ozone oxidation unit which progresses ozone oxidation in the ozone mixed wastewater while passing the ozone mixed wastewater therethrough and discharges wastewater in which the ozone has been consumed; a biological treatment unit which performs biological treatment on the wastewater discharged from the ozone oxidation unit using microorganisms; and an adjusting device which adjusts the amount of ozone to be mixed with the wastewater by the mixer so that ozone in an amount that inhibits the microorganisms of the biological treatment unit does not remain in the wastewater discharged from the ozone oxidation unit.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A wastewater treatment device, comprising:
an ozone generator which supplies ozone;
a mixer which mixes ozone supplied from the ozone generator with wastewater and supplies ozone mixed wastewater;
an ozone oxidation unit which progresses ozone oxidation in the ozone mixed wastewater while passing the ozone mixed wastewater therethrough and discharges, through a flow channel under pressure, wastewater in which the ozone has been consumed to generate oxygen, thereby supplying wastewater having a dissolved oxygen concentration that is higher than a dissolved oxygen concentration of the ozone mixed wastewater in the mixer;
a biological treatment unit which has microorganisms for biological treatment including aerobic microorganisms, and performs the biological treatment on the wastewater discharged through the flow channel from the ozone oxidation unit using the microorganisms with the dissolved oxygen in the wastewater; and
an adjusting device which adjusts the amount of ozone to be mixed with the wastewater by the mixer so that ozone in an amount that inhibits the microorganisms of the biological treatment unit does not remain in the wastewater discharged from the ozone oxidation unit.

2. The wastewater treatment device according to claim 1 , wherein the adjusting device includes:
a measuring device which measures the amount of ozone in the wastewater discharged from the ozone oxidation unit; and
a regulating valve capable of regulating the amount of ozone to be mixed with the wastewater by the mixer, and
the regulating valve is adjusted based on measurement by the measuring device in such a manner that the amount of ozone in the wastewater is lower than a level at which the microorganisms are inhibited.

3. The wastewater treatment device according to claim 2 , further comprising:
a release passage for avoiding the supply of the wastewater to the biological treatment unit when the ozone remains in the wastewater discharged from the ozone oxidation unit; and
a control valve which stops the supply of the wastewater to the biological treatment unit when the amount of ozone in the wastewater is equal to or higher than the level at which the microorganisms are inhibited, based on the measurement by the measuring device.

4. The wastewater treatment device according to claim 3 , wherein
the release passage is a return passage capable of supplying the wastewater discharged from the ozone oxidation unit to the mixer, and
the wastewater flows through the return passage when the supply of the wastewater to the biological treatment unit is stopped by the control valve.

5. The wastewater treatment device according to claim 1 , wherein
the mixer includes a bubble generator, and
ozone is dispersed in the ozone mixed wastewater in a state of bubbles.

6. The wastewater treatment device according to claim 5 , wherein the bubble generator is a microbubble generator which generates fine bubbles having a bubble diameter of 10 to 50 μm.

7. The wastewater treatment device according to claim 1 , wherein the ozone oxidation unit is configured of an airtight pressure resistant container to progress the ozone oxidation under pressure, and has a catalyst that promotes an ozone oxidation reaction.

8. The wastewater treatment device according to claim 7 , wherein the ozone oxidation unit is configured in a multistage structure in which a plurality of catalyst beds on which the catalyst is supported are stacked in a vertical direction, and is configured so that the ozone mixed wastewater sequentially passes through the plurality of catalyst beds while being introduced from a bottom part of the ozone oxidation unit and rising toward a top part of the ozone oxidation unit.

9. The wastewater treatment device according to claim 7 , wherein
a difference in height between the biological treatment unit and the ozone oxidation unit is provided so that a water level in the biological treatment unit is lower than that in the ozone oxidation unit, and
the wastewater of the ozone oxidation unit is supplied to the biological treatment unit using a gravity action due to the difference in height.

10. The wastewater treatment device according to claim 2 , further comprising:
an ozone decomposing device which decomposes ozone remaining in the wastewater discharged from the ozone oxidation unit when ozone remains in the wastewater discharged from the ozone oxidation unit.

11. A wastewater treatment method, comprising:
ozone generation that supplies ozone;
mixing preparation for mixing the ozone supplied by the ozone generation with wastewater to supply ozone mixed wastewater;
ozone oxidation treatment in which ozone oxidation is allowed to proceed in the ozone mixed wastewater, to discharge the wastewater under pressure in which the ozone has been consumed to generate oxygen, thereby supplying wastewater having a dissolved oxygen concentration that is higher than a dissolved oxygen concentration of the ozone mixed wastewater supplied by the mixing preparation; and
biological treatment including aerobic treatment, in which the wastewater after the ozone oxidation treatment is biologically treated with aerobic microorganisms using the dissolved oxygen in the wastewater, wherein
an amount of ozone mixed with the wastewater in the mixing preparation is adjusted so that ozone in an amount that inhibits the microorganisms of the biological treatment does not remain in the wastewater discharged from the ozone oxidation treatment.

12. The wastewater treatment method according to claim 11 , wherein a ratio of ozone to be mixed with the wastewater is adjusted according to a flow rate of the wastewater supplied to the ozone oxidation treatment and water quality of the wastewater so that an appropriate amount of ozone is mixed with the wastewater in the mixing preparation.

13. The wastewater treatment method according to claim 11 , which is applied to an advanced treatment for treating industrial wastewater containing a persistent organic substance.

Assignees

• Ihi Corp

Inventors

• Kubota Nobuhiko
• Yoshida Yuka
• Huang Xia
• Liu Chun
• Zhang Jing
• Zhou hong zheng
• Chen xiao xuan
• Zhang Lei

Classifications

• C02F2301/046

  Recirculation with an external loop · CPC title

• C02F2209/235

  in the gas phase · CPC title

• C02F2201/782

  Ozone generators · CPC title

• C02F2101/16

  Nitrogen compounds, e.g. ammonia · CPC title

• C02F2101/101

  Sulfur compounds · CPC title