Membrane separation type activated sludge treatment method and membrane separation type activated sludge treatment system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2018111096-A1
Application number	US-201615562948-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Apr 19, 2016
Priority date	May 7, 2015
Publication date	Apr 26, 2018
Grant date	—

Abstract

A membrane separation type activated sludge treatment method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a step of performing biological treatment on waste water; and a step of performing membrane separation after the biological treatment step, wherein the membrane separation step is performed with a plurality of filtration modules including a plurality of hollow fiber membranes arranged adjacent to one another and oriented in one direction and a pair of holding members fixing both ends of the plurality of hollow fiber membranes, and a number of the filtration modules operated is changed in accordance with variations in an inflow rate of waste water in the biological treatment step.

First claim

1 . A membrane separation type activated sludge treatment method comprising: a step of performing biological treatment on waste water; and a step of performing membrane separation after the biological treatment step,
wherein the membrane separation step is performed with a plurality of filtration modules including a plurality of hollow fiber membranes arranged adjacent to one another and oriented in one direction and a pair of holding members fixing both ends of the plurality of hollow fiber membranes, and a number of the filtration modules operated is changed in accordance with variations in an inflow rate of waste water in the biological treatment step.

2 . The membrane separation type activated sludge treatment method according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of filtration modules are provided as a plurality of filtration blocks each including filtration modules that share a suction system, and
a number of the filtration blocks operated is changed in accordance with variations in the inflow rate of waste water in the biological treatment step.

3 . The membrane separation type activated sludge treatment method according to claim 1 , wherein the membrane separation step employs a plurality of cleaning modules supplying air bubbles from beneath the filtration modules, and
of the plurality of cleaning modules, only one or more cleaning modules beneath one or more filtration modules that are being operated are operated.

4 . The membrane separation type activated sludge treatment method according to claim 1 , wherein a daily minimum inflow rate of waste water in the biological treatment step is equal to or higher than 0.2 times a daily average inflow rate of waste water in the biological treatment step, and a daily maximum inflow rate of waste water in the biological treatment step is equal to or lower than 2 times the daily average inflow rate of waste water in the biological treatment step.

5 . A membrane separation type activated sludge treatment system comprising: a tank configured to perform biological treatment on waste water, and an apparatus configured to perform membrane separation on water having been treated in the biological treatment tank,
wherein the membrane separation apparatus includes a plurality of filtration modules including a plurality of hollow fiber membranes arranged adjacent to one another and oriented in one direction and a pair of holding members fixing both ends of the plurality of hollow fiber membranes, and the membrane separation apparatus comprises a device configured to change a number of the filtration modules operated, in accordance with variations in an inflow rate of waste water in the biological treatment tank.

6 . The membrane separation type activated sludge treatment system according to claim 5 , not comprising a tank configured to adjust the inflow rate of waste water in the biological treatment tank.

Assignees

• Sumitomo Electric Industries

Inventors

• Tanaka Hiromu
• Miki Hiroko
• Yoneda Tomoyuki
• Morita Toru

Classifications

• B01D2317/04

  Elements in parallel · CPC title

• B01D63/02

  Hollow fibre modules · CPC title

• C02F1/44

  by dialysis, osmosis or reverse osmosis {(general membrane separation processes B01D61/00, membrane modules B01D63/00, electrodialysis C02F1/4693, combination of membrane modules and bioreactors C02F3/1268)} · CPC title

• B01D2321/185

  Aeration · CPC title

• C02F3/12

  Activated sludge processes · CPC title