Device and method for treating nitrogen and phosphorus pollutants in mariculture wastewater

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12371356-B1
Application number	US-202519019450-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Jan 13, 2025
Priority date	Jul 15, 2024
Publication date	Jul 29, 2025
Grant date	Jul 29, 2025

Abstract

Disclosed is a device and method for efficiently treating nitrogen and phosphorus pollutants in mariculture wastewater, falling within the technical field of mariculture tailwater treatment. According to the method, in a nitrogen removal functional zone, modified agricultural waste is combined with elemental sulfur particles, and sulfur-reducing bacteria utilize carbon sources slowly released from the waste to reduce elemental sulfur to S 2− or S n 2− utilized by sulfur-oxidizing bacteria, achieving sulfur transformation. The present disclosure solves the problems that, during treating mariculture tailwater using sulfur autotrophic denitrification technology, the low solubility of elemental sulfur particles and high dissolved oxygen concentration in the tailwater result in low utilization rate of elemental sulfur and poor nitrogen and phosphorus removal efficiency.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A device for treating nitrogen and phosphorus pollutants in mariculture wastewater, comprising an inner cavity and an outer cavity;
the inner cavity comprising an influent water distribution zone ( 2 ) and a nitrogen removal functional zone ( 3 ) based on efficient sulfur autotrophic denitrification through sulfur transformation, the influent water distribution zone ( 2 ) and the nitrogen removal functional zone ( 3 ) being separated into upper and lower parts by a perforated partition plate ( 10 ), and
the outer cavity comprising a secondarily modified biochar zone ( 4 ) and an effluent water microporous aeration zone ( 7 ), arranged on two sides of the nitrogen removal functional zone ( 3 ), respectively, wherein
the nitrogen removal functional zone ( 3 ) comprises elemental sulfur particles, modified agricultural waste, and enriched sulfur-reducing bacteria and sulfur-oxidizing bacteria; the sulfur-reducing bacteria utilize carbon sources released from the modified agricultural waste to reduce the elemental sulfur particles into sulfide S 2− /polysulfide S n 2− ; and the sulfur-oxidizing bacteria reduce nitrate into nitrogen gas while utilizing the sulfide S 2− and the polysulfide S n 2− for sulfur oxidation, achieving nitrogen removal;
the secondarily modified biochar zone ( 4 ) is filled with secondarily modified biochar having sulfide and phosphorus adsorption capability; and the secondarily modified biochar is prepared by pyrolyzing alkali-modified agricultural waste at a temperature of 250° C.-550° C. to produce biochar, followed by secondary modification of the biochar with Fe 3+ and Al 3+ ; and
the effluent water microporous aeration zone ( 7 ) is arranged with a microporous aeration disk ( 6 ) at a water outlet ( 8 ), for removing sulfide and ammonia nitrogen byproducts present in tailwater after passing through a nitrogen and phosphorus removal functional zone and for minimizing the byproducts produced during mariculture tailwater treatment, the microporous aeration disk ( 6 ) being connected to an air pump ( 5 ).

2. The device for treating nitrogen and phosphorus pollutants in mariculture wastewater according to claim 1 , wherein the influent water distribution zone ( 2 ) is arranged with smooth filler materials formed by cone-shaped pebbles and gravel, for uniformly dispersing mariculture tailwater.

3. The device for treating nitrogen and phosphorus pollutants in mariculture wastewater according to claim 2 , wherein a particle size of the pebbles and gravel is 5 cm-8 cm.

4. The device for treating nitrogen and phosphorus pollutants in mariculture wastewater according to claim 2 , wherein a bottom of the influent water distribution zone ( 2 ) is connected to a water inlet pipe ( 1 ), and a sewage outlet ( 9 ) is mounted on a side, opposite to the bottom of the influent water distribution zone ( 2 ), of the water inlet pipe ( 1 ).

5. The device for treating nitrogen and phosphorus pollutants in mariculture wastewater according to claim 1 , wherein the secondarily modified biochar zone ( 4 ) is connected to a water inlet ( 11 ).

6. A method for treating nitrogen and phosphorus pollutants in mariculture wastewater, the method using the device for treating nitrogen and phosphorus pollutants in mariculture wastewater according to claim 1 , comprising:
in the nitrogen removal functional zone ( 3 ), combining the modified agricultural waste with the elemental sulfur particles; utilizing, by the sulfur-reducing bacteria, the carbon sources released from the waste to reduce elemental sulfur to S 2− or S n 2− utilized by the sulfur-oxidizing bacteria, achieving sulfur transformation; and converting, by the sulfur-oxidizing bacteria, nitrate into nitrogen gas at the same time, achieving nitrogen removal; and
in the secondarily modified biochar zone ( 4 ), preparing secondarily modified biochar with sulfide and phosphorus adsorption characteristics under seawater conditions by secondary modification of biochar, and utilizing aeration in the effluent water microporous aeration zone ( 7 ) to promote adsorption of sulfide and nitrification of ammonia nitrogen.

7. A method for treating nitrogen and phosphorus pollutants in mariculture wastewater, applied to the device for treating nitrogen and phosphorus pollutants in mariculture wastewater according to claim 2 , comprising:
in the nitrogen removal functional zone ( 3 ), combining the modified agricultural waste with the elemental sulfur particles; utilizing, by the sulfur-reducing bacteria, the carbon sources released from the waste to reduce elemental sulfur to S 2− or S n 2− utilized by the sulfur-oxidizing bacteria, achieving sulfur transformation; and converting, by the sulfur-oxidizing bacteria, nitrate into nitrogen gas at the same time, achieving nitrogen removal; and
in the secondarily modified biochar zone ( 4 ), preparing secondarily modified biochar with sulfide and phosphorus adsorption characteristics under seawater conditions by secondary modification of biochar, and utilizing aeration in the effluent water microporous aeration zone ( 7 ) to promote adsorption of sulfide and nitrification of ammonia nitrogen.

8. A method for treating nitrogen and phosphorus pollutants in mariculture wastewater, applied to the device for treating nitrogen and phosphorus pollutants in mariculture wastewater according to claim 3 , comprising:
in the nitrogen removal functional zone ( 3 ), combining the modified agricultural waste with the elemental sulfur particles; utilizing, by the sulfur-reducing bacteria, the carbon sources released from the waste to reduce elemental sulfur to S 2− or S n 2− utilized by the sulfur-oxidizing bacteria, achieving sulfur transformation; and converting, by the sulfur-oxidizing bacteria, nitrate into nitrogen gas at the same time, achieving nitrogen removal; and
in the secondarily modified biochar zone ( 4 ), preparing secondarily modified biochar with sulfide and phosphorus adsorption characteristics under seawater conditions by secondary modification of biochar, and utilizing aeration in the effluent water microporous aeration zone ( 7 ) to promote adsorption of sulfide and nitrification of ammonia nitrogen.

9. A method for treating nitrogen and phosphorus pollutants in mariculture wastewater, applied to the device for treating nitrogen and phosphorus pollutants in mariculture wastewater according to claim 4 , comprising:
in the nitrogen removal functional zone ( 3 ), combining the modified agricultural waste with the elemental sulfur particles; utilizing, by the sulfur-reducing bacteria, the carbon sources released from the waste to reduce elemental sulfur to S 2− or S n 2− utilized by the sulfur-oxidizing bacteria, achieving sulfur transformation; and converting, by the sulfur-oxidizing bacteria, nitrate into nitrogen gas at the same time, achieving nitrogen removal; and
in the secondarily modified biochar zone ( 4 ), preparing secondarily modified biochar with sulfide and phosphorus adsorption characteristics under seawater conditions by secondary modification of biochar, and utilizing aeration in the effluent water microporous aeration zone ( 7 ) to promote adsorption of sulfide and nitrification of ammonia nitrogen.

10. A method for treating nitrogen and phosphorus pollutants in mariculture wastewater, applied to the device for treating nitrogen and phosphorus pollutants in mariculture wastewater according to claim 5 , comprising:
in the nitrogen removal functional zone ( 3 ), combining the modified agricultural waste with the elemental sulfur particles; utilizing, by the sulfur-reducing bacteria, the carbon sources released from the waste to reduce elemental sulfur to S 2− or S n 2−

Assignees

• Ocean Univ China

Inventors

• Li Meng
• Wei Yuanrong
• Song Xiefa
• Zhang Min

Classifications

• C02F3/302 Primary

  Nitrification and denitrification treatment (C02F3/308 takes precedence) · CPC title

• C02F2101/16

  Nitrogen compounds, e.g. ammonia · CPC title

• C02F2101/101

  Sulfur compounds · CPC title

• C02F1/283

  using coal, charred products, or inorganic mixtures containing them · CPC title

• C02F2101/163

  Nitrates · CPC title