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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2019
Cockerill Maintenance & Ingenierie S.a., Seraing, BE;
Centre Belge D'etude ET DE Documentation DE L'eau, En Abrege Cebedeau Asbl, Liege, BE;
List—luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Esch-sur-Alzette, LU;
COCKERILL MAINTENANCE & INGENIERIE S.A., Seraing, BE;
CENTRE BELGE D'ETUDE ET DE DOCUMENTATION DE L'EAU, EN ABREGE CEBEDEAU ASBL, Liege, BE;
LIST—LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Esch-sur-Alzette, LU;
Abstract
A completely biological method for removing a first group of micropollutants of pharmaceutical origin and a second group of micropollutants of pharmaceutical origin from raw wastewater includes: providing a first buffer tank upstream of a bioreactor; providing a moving bed membrane bioreactor (MB-MBR) for developing biomass growth both on a fixed support and in suspension in a form of flocs, and on mobile supports, the bioreactor obtaining an effluent with a COD concentration of organic matter of less than 50 mg land a total nitrogen concentration of less than 15 mg l; providing a biofiltration tank, separate from the first buffer tank of the bioreactor, that includes one or more biologically activated carbon (BAC) columns containing activated carbon; supplying the first buffer tank upstream of the bioreactor with raw wastewater containing micropollutants of pharmaceutical origin; pretreating the wastewater by passing the wastewater through a fine mesh sieve.