Constructing a multistage food chain biofilm system enhanced by electrochemistry and its application in pharmaceutical wastewater

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2024308896-A1
Application number	US-202418678934-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 30, 2024
Priority date	Nov 20, 2023
Publication date	Sep 19, 2024
Grant date	—

Abstract

The present invention belongs to the technical field of environmental engineering and provides a method for constructing a multistage food chain biofilm system enhanced by electrochemistry and an application in pharmaceutical wastewater. A flow-through electrochemical degradation module is constructed based on P/F—TiO 2-n porous membrane electrodes, and a multistage flow-through composite electrochemical-biological submerged fixed film reactor is constructed jointly with the PA-N-rGO fixed fiber carrier and applied to deep purification of high-risk substances in pharmaceutical wastewater. The flow-through electrochemical degradation module can also effectively degrade antibiotics resistance genes and refractory organics in the water, improve the biodegradability of the wastewater and improve the degradation performance and load of shock resistance of the system, so the multistage flow-through composite electrochemical-biological submerged fixed film reactor can realize the high-efficiency low-consumption treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater and effectively reduce the yield of excess activated sludge.

First claim

1 . A method for constructing a multistage food chain biofilm system enhanced by electrochemistry, comprising the following steps:
step 1: preparing a nylon 66 (PA66) material; step 2: preparing an N-doped reduced graphene oxide (N-rGO) material; step 3: treating the N-rGO material obtained in step 2 by ball milling, taking out the N-rGO material for ultrasonic dispersion with deionized water, conducting suction filtration of the dispersion liquid, taking out black filtrate, and carrying out freeze drying to obtain a few-layer N-rGO nanosheet material; and heating the PA66 material obtained in step 1, adding the few-layer N-rGO nanosheet material in a molten state, conducting stirring in the molten state, forming PA-N-rGO fibers by an extruder, and fixing both ends of the PA-N-rGO fibers on a frame composed of polypropylene pipes by a textile machine to form a plurality of fixed fiber curtains composed of the PA-N-rGO fibers to be used as fixed fiber curtain carriers for carrying microorganisms; step 4: pre-treating porous Ti plates by heating in potassium hydroxide and oxalic acid solutions successively, removing impurities from the surfaces, and forming titanium oxide films in situ on the surfaces of the porous Ti plates; then, conducting repeated dip-coating on the oxidized porous Ti plates in a 0.5-3 mol/L potassium fluoride aqueous solution, and loading potassium fluoride on the surfaces of the Ti plates; and putting the Ti plates into a corundum porcelain boat and then into a tube furnace, placing the porcelain boat with sodium hypophosphite at a distance of 100 mm from the porous Ti plates upwind of the tube furnace, carrying out gradient heating in a nitrogen atmosphere, conducting isothermal reactions for 1-2 h respectively at temperatures of 350° C. and 450° C., carrying out natural cooling to room temperature, and finally performing electrochemical reduction treatment of the porous Ti plates, thus obtaining the P/F co-doped titanium suboxide porous membrane electrode material; step 5: constructing a flow-through electrochemical degradation module with anodes made of the obtained P/F co-doped titanium suboxide porous membrane electrode material and cathodes made of 4-30-mesh stainless steel meshes, wherein the cathodes and the anodes are spaced 10-30 mm apart; putting the fixed fiber curtain carriers obtained in step 3 into a microbial reactor, with the fixed fiber curtains spaced 200-500 mm apart, so as to form a biological submerged fixed film reactor; and dividing the biological submerged fixed film reactor into 3-12 cells by the flow-through electrochemical degradation module to construct a multistage flow-through composite electrochemical-biological submerged fixed film reactor, applying a constant current of 0.5-5 mA/cm 2 for operation, and adding activated sludge to the microbial reactor for culture, which enables fiber surfaces to carry a large number of functional microorganisms in a short time.

2 . The method for constructing a multistage food chain biofilm system enhanced by electrochemistry according to claim 1 , wherein in step 3, the N-rGO material is treated by dry ball milling at a revolving speed of 3000-5000 rpm for 30-60 min.

3 . The method for constructing a multistage food chain biofilm system enhanced by electrochemistry according to claim 1 , wherein in step 3, the PA66 material is heated to 230-280° C. and added with the few-layer N-rGO nanosheet material in a molten state at a mass ratio of 7:3-99:1, which are stirred in the molten state for 30 min.

4 . The method for constructing a multistage food chain biofilm system enhanced by electrochemistry according to claim 1 , wherein in step 3, the length range of the PA-N-rGO fibers is 50-2000 mm.

5 . The method for constructing a multistage food chain biofilm system enhanced by electrochemistry according to claim 1 , wherein in step 4, the number of times of dip-coating is 3-20.

6 . The method for constructing a multistage food chain biofilm system enhanced by electrochemistry according to claim 1 , wherein in step 4, the heating rate is 5° C./min.

7 . An application of a multistage food chain biofilm system enhanced by electrochemistry constructed by the method of claim 1 , wherein the multistage food chain biofilm system enhanced by electrochemistry is suitable for treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater by an aerobic process, an anaerobic process, an anaerobic-aerobic process and an anaerobic-anoxic-aerobic process.

Assignees

• Univ North China Electric Power

Inventors

• Niu Junfeng
• Yu Mingchuan

Classifications

• C02F2101/16

  Nitrogen compounds, e.g. ammonia · CPC title

• C02F2001/46133

  characterised by the material · CPC title

• C02F1/4672

  by electrooxydation · CPC title

• C02F9/00 Primary

  Multistage treatment of water, waste water or sewage · CPC title

• C02F2203/006

  details of construction, e.g. specially adapted seals, modules, connections · CPC title