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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 1986
Filed:
Mar. 21, 1985
Wei-chi Ying, Grand Island, NY (US);
Stanley A Sojka, Buffalo, NY (US);
Occidental Chemical Corporation, Niagara Falls, NY (US);
Abstract
Combinations of physicochemical and biological treatment processes are capable of removing dioxins, polychlorobiphenyls (PCB's) and other halogenated organic compounds from wastewaters. The dioxins and PCB's are removed by at least 90 percent in the pretreatment steps of neutralization, oxidation, and sedimentation; the residual amounts are removed in a powdered activated carbon enhanced sequencing batch reactor (PAC-SBR) operating at a high mixed liquor suspended solids concentration (>5000 mg/L). Powder activated carbon (PAC) is supplemented to the bioreactor to ensure complete removal of the dioxins (<0.8 ppt) and PCB's (<2 ppb). The PAC-SBR enhanced biological treatment process is capable of meeting stringent effluent limits on not only on dioxins and PCB's but also on other toxic halogenated organic compounds. The treatment cost of this process is substantially less than either the conventional granular activated carbon adsorption technology or two stage treatment of biodegradation and carbon absorption.