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У результатi лабораторних експериментiв показана можливють бюочистки розчинних у водi газоподiбних ырководню, дюксиду Ырки та амшку. На основi отриманих емтричних залеж-ностей та теоретичних уявлень щодо неста-цiонарностi процесу розроблено математичну модель бюдеструкци газоподiбних водорозчинних забруднювачiв. Алгоритм враховуе стан дина-мiчноi рiвноваги мiж безперервною абсорбщею забруднювачiв та iх бюокисненням у водi шару бюреактору, що омиваеться. Отримат залежно-стi дозволяють адекватно описувати процес бю-очистки та розраховувати його параметри
Ключовi слова: очистка викидiв, процес бюочистки, Ырководень, дюксид Ырки, бюреактор
В результате лабораторных экспериментов показана возможность биоочистки растворимых в воде газообразных сероводорода, диоксида серы и аммиака. На основании полученных эмпирических зависимостей и теоретических представлений о нестационарности процесса разработана математическая модель биодеструкции газообразных водорастворимых загрязнений. Алгоритм учитывает состояние динамического равновесия между непрерывной абсорбцией загрязнений и их биоокислением в воде омываемого слоя биореактора. Полученные зависимости позволяют адекватно описывать процесс биоочистки и рассчитывать его параметры
Ключевые слова: очистка выбросов, процесс биоочистки, сероводород, диоксид серы, биореактор
UDC 504.06+577.1
|DOI: 10.15587/1729-4061.2017.98675|
DEVELOPMENT OF THE MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF THE BIOTREATMENT PROCESS OF WATER-SOLUBLE GASEOUS EMISSIONS
A. Bakharev8
PhD, Associate Professor Department of occupational safety and environmental** E-mail: [email protected]
0. Shestopalov PhD, Associate Professor*
E-mail: [email protected] O. F i l e n k o PhD, Associate Professor* E-mail: [email protected]
1. Novozhylova PhD, Associate Professor*
E-mail: [email protected] B. Kobilyansky PhD, Associate Professor Department of occupational safety and ecological safety Teaching and Research Professional Pedagogical Institute of Ukrainian Engineering and Pedagogical Academy Nosakova str., 9 a, Bakhmut, Ukraine, 84500 E-mail: [email protected] *Department of chemical technique and industrial ecology** **National Technical University «Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute» Kyrpychova str., 2, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 61002
1. Introduction
Environmental protection against gaseous pollutants takes a leading place in ensuring the environmental safety of cities. A special position in this class of pollutants belongs to hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide and ammonia, which are foul-smelling degradation products of organic matter. Their sources are utilities in general and sewer networks, in particular. The low concentration of these pollutants makes traditional physicochemical or thermal treatment methods ineffective and economically unsound.
An effective and environmentally friendly method of treatment of low-concentration gaseous emissions is biodegradation. Sizing and design of industrial plants require
the study and mathematical description of processes in a bioreactor. The biotreatment process of hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide and ammonia, due to their good water solubility, occurs in the trickling water layer. Data on the kinetics of such a stationary process can be obtained only experimentally. The combination of continuous absorption and biooxidation in a water layer causes non-stationarity of the biotreatment process of the specified pollutants. The process non-stationarity complicates pollution control equipment sizing and requires additional empirical data. The foregoing shows the urgency of experimental studies and the need to develop an adequate mathematical model of the biotreatment process of water-soluble gaseous substances. Development of a mathematical model of the biodetoxification process of
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gaseous emissions is an important stage of sizing and design of biotreatment plants.
2. Literature review and problem statement
Biological methods are based on the ability of microorganisms to degrade a huge amount of harmful substances to harmless products like water and carbon dioxide under aerobic conditions [1]. Their feature is that biochemical processes do not require expensive reagents and proceed at ambient temperature and pressure, which makes them economically viable. At present, biofilters, bioscrubbers and trickle-bed bioreactors are used for biotreatment [2]. These units are based on the following principle: gaseous harmful substances, absorbed by the aqueous medium, are absorbed by microorganisms and then undergo biodegradation. Microorganisms utilize water-dissolved pollutants as a nutritious substrate to meet their energy needs and for biomass build-up [3].
The biodetoxification method of gaseous emissions is commonly used for air deodorization from a mixture of organic matter [4], and also the accompanying inorganic odorants, such as hydrogen sulfide H2S on livestock farms [5]. At the same time, biodetoxification is also applied to specific emissions that contain benzene, toluene, ethylene benzene [6], carbon disulfide CS2 [7], methyl- and dimethyl mercaptans [8], styrene [9], and organochlorine pollutants, for example, dichloromethane [10].
Application of the biotreatment method of gaseous emissions is particularly effective at low concentrations of pollutants and relatively low performance, typical for sewage networks [11].
Among modern gas treatment units, biofilters [12, 13] and trickle-bed bioreactors are in general use [14]. Many modern studies are devoted to the determination of kinetic parameters and mathematical description of the biotreat-ment process. The paper [15] considers the kinetic characteristics of the degradation process in biofilms of gas treatment units. According to the production data [16], the hydrogen sulfide removal kinetics have been determined. Mathematical descriptions of processes in the trickle-bed biofilter based on statistical evaluation of experimental data [17] and understanding of mass transfer [18] have been performed. The mathematical description of the laboratory stationary biodegradation process adequate for a wide class of pollutants has been proposed in the research [19]. The mathematical models of biotreatment of water-soluble methane [20] and water-dissolved formaldehyde [21], considering the non-stationarity of processes in real industrial plants have been developed.
Literature review confirms both the development of bio-detoxification methods, and insufficient research of specific biotreatment processes of gaseous hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide and ammonia that are well absorbed by water. This class of pollutants requires a comprehensive experimental and theoretical study with the aim of developing a mathematical model to describe biotreatment of water-soluble gaseous pollutants in the trickle-bed bioreactor.
3. Goal and objectives
The goal of the paper is to develop a mathematical model of the non-stationary biotreatment process of gaseous
emissions, including water-soluble hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide and ammonia.
To achieve this goal, it is necessary to accomplish the following objectives:
- to determine experimentally the kinetic parameters of the stationary biodegradation process of water-dissolved hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide and ammonia;
- to develop a mathematical model of biooxidation of water-soluble gaseous emissions, taking into account the real non-stationarity of processes in the bioreactor.
4. Materials and methods of the research of the biotreatment process of water-soluble gaseous pollutants
4. 1. Experimental materials and equipment
The biooxidation process parameters of water-dissolved H2S, NH3 and SO2 were studied in a 5 dm3 acrylic glass column installation (Fig. 1).
Fig. 1. Schematic diagram of a laboratory installation for biotreatment of an aqueous medium from dissolved H2S, NH3 and SO2: 1 — lavsan brush attachment with immobilized specialized microbiocenosis; 2 — dispersant; 3 — compressor
The vessel was filled with the water, containing nutrient salts, as well as sulfur and nitrogen compounds, simulating the H2S, NH3 and SO2 water dissolution products. The installation included the system of air supply through the dispersant providing fine-bubble dispersion. The attachment (lavsan brushes) with the packaging density of 150-200 mm/dm3, at which specialized immobilized micro-biocenosis was formed by autoselection, was placed in the installation. The bioreactor was inoculated with an enrichment culture of ammonium-oxidizing and thionic bacteria. The biomass concentration was 1.0 g/dm3 of the installation volume. The enrichment culture was prepared in the Soriano and Walker nutrient medium with the addition of 5 g/dm3 of Na2S2O3 (the compound used in elective media for isolation of S2--oxidizing thiobacilli). The material for accumulation of thiobacilli and ammonium-oxidizing bacteria was concrete of the crest part of the sewers. After the bioreactor was inoculated, nutrient salts at the concentrations used in the Soriano and Walker medium with 400 mg/dm3 of Na2S2O3 were added to the aqueous medium. After the biofilm formed
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on the bed (about 0.06 g/g of the bed) and oxidation of NH4+ and S2O3- stabilized, experiments were performed to determine the removal process parameters of dissolved H2S, NH3 and SO2: specific oxidation rate of S2-, SO3- and NH+; the bacteria microbiocenosis mass; the half-saturation concentration of oxidized substrates; the mass of the feed material. The experiments were carried out in the aqueous medium with the addition of phosphorus, magnesium, and iron salts according to the composition of the Soriano and Walker medium and, depending on experimental purposes, compounds simulating the dissolution products of any of H2S, NH3 or SO2 gases - Na2S, Na2SO3 and NH4OH respectively. The concentrations of S2-, SO3- and NH4+ in the aqueous medium were determined: S2- - by the methylene blue formation reaction, SO3- - by the iodine solution titration in the presence of formaldehyde, NH4+ - with the Nessler's reagent.
Since S2- and SO3- are oxidized by bacteria of the same ecological-trophic group, it can be assumed that H2S and SO2 in an aqueous medium may compete for thiobacilli oxidases. Therefore, water, in which these two S-containing substrates were in equal concentrations, was treated in a special experiment.
4. 2. Assumptions of the model of the non-stationary biotreatment process of water-absorbed pollutants
The bioreactor that purifies air from water-soluble gaseous compounds can be called countercurrent. Removal of harmful matter in such a bioreactor occurs in the water absorbing it, moving in the direction opposite to the movement of the gas-air mixture to be purified.
As a result of continuous spraying of water into the bio-reactor, according to the laws of adhesion, surface tension and gravity, it will be on the bed while moving along it. The combined effect of these laws should obviously lead to dynamic balance, that is, the constancy of water on the bed at any time. This is also required by the condition of balance of supplied and discharged water.
The bioreactor of this type combines the functions of an absorber and the trickle-bed bioreactor. Simultaneously with absorption, the harmful matter biodegradation process takes place in water.
The attached gas-air mixture layers of infinitesimal thickness dy, moving upward the bioreactor from its inlet to the outlet, transferring pollution to the water trickling the bed are considered. In turn, the attached water layers of infinitesimal thickness dy move downward the biore-actor from the outlet to the inlet and absorb pollution. The idea of a moving conditional horizontal water layer of infinitesimal thickness is equivalent to the assumption that the rate of movement of any infinitesimal volume of water in the considered horizontal section of the bioreac-tor is constant.
The horizontal section of the bioreactor is not solid. Most of its area is occupied by the gas-air mixture, against the background of which there are separate regions, including lavsan filaments in the section, biomass and water, constantly residing on the bed. Pollution absorption and biodegradation occur horizontally, successively from the gas-air mixture to water, and then from water to biomass.
Each upwardly moving gas-air mixture can have the initial concentration of pollution equal to its time-varying concentration in the sewer. Harmful matter continuously flows from the gas-air mixture to the downwards-moving infinitesimal water layer due to absorption. Besides, in case
of water reuse for the bioreactor trickling and given incomplete treatment, variation of initial pollution concentration in water with time is possible. Thus, a process in the countercurrent bioreactor is always non-stationary.
Processes in the bioreactor include:
- upward movement of the gas-air mixture in the bioreactor, partially filled with the water-trickled bed;
- downward movement of water held on the bed;
- pollution arrival from the gas-air mixture into water as a result of absorption;
- biochemical destructuring of harmful matter in water.
In the calculations, complete absorption of the pollution
entering the bioreactor and the specific pollution transfer rate, constant by the bioreactor height were assumed. Then, the background concentration prt - pollution concentration in the downward moving conditional infinitesimal water layer without considering the biotreatment process, is determined as:
Prt =Po +Prmt,
(1)
where prm is the maximum background pollution concentration in the water layer at the initial value equal to zero, g/m3; p0 is the initial harmful matter concentration in the water layer, g/m3; td is the biotreatment duration (time of water residence in the bioreactor), h.
5. Results of the research of kinetic characteristics of biodegradation of water-soluble gaseous pollutants
Experimental data [19] show that the oxidation rate changed from 12 mg/g-h to 40 mg/g-h in the range of H2S concentrations in water of 15-120 mg/dm3. Similar results of concentration changes were also obtained for the rate of SO2 oxidation in water. In the range of NH3 concentrations in water of 2.5-20 mg/dm3, the oxidation rate varied from about 1.5 mg/g-h at the minimum concentrations to the maximum value of 5 mg/g-h.
It follows from the experimental research data that the maximum specific oxidation rate of S-containing substrates of 80 mg/g-h is almost twice the specific oxidation rates of H2S and SO2. It can be argued that the oxidation of H2S and SO2 is made by various thiobacilli, which do not compete with each other for sulfur-containing substrates. Otherwise, the specific oxidation rate of S-containing substrates would be about 40 mg/g-h.
The analysis of experimental data indicates that the dependences of specific biochemical oxidation rate of H2S, SO2 and NH3 in water on their concentrations exist and have the form of a peaked curve. The developed macrokinetic mathematical model of the stationary process [22] quantifies the relation between the specific oxidation rate Vp and the concentration of the removed matter p for the considered pollutants:
Vp = a pb e-
(2)
where a, b, c are the empirical coefficients determined in the course of statistical processing of the experimental data.
The considered bioreactor combines the processes of absorption and biodegradation of harmful matter. Therefore, a continuous change of the full pollution mass balance in time
in a moving conditional water layer of infinitesimal thickness can be written as:
Gt+1 = G0 +SGrt -SGW (3)
The structure of the formula for Vpt does not make it possible to get a closed analytical solution of Eq. (9). Therefore, we apply the numerical integration algorithm, proceeding from differentials to finite increments:
where Gt is the pollution mass in the water layer at the time t, g; SGVt is the change in the pollution mass in the water layer at the time t due to biodegradation, g; G0 is the pollution mass in the water layer at the time t=0, g; SGrt is the pollution mass increase in the water layer at the time t due to absorption, g.
The components of (3) are:
Gt = Pt ^
SGvt =-mb ■ ^ J Vptdt, H 0
dRw = Fw ■ dy,
SGrt = -mk ■ dy Jv ■ dy ■ dt,
(4)
(5)
(6) (7)
APi =APri +APv,,
Pi+i = Pi + Api, tw = ti + At,
APri = pM At,
1
APi = — (e110ViAt -1),
. b 4 =--c,
Pi
Vpj = a■Pib ■ e-cPi.
(11) (12)
(13)
(14)
(15)
(16) (17)
where pt is the harmful matter time-varying concentration in the water layer, g/m3; mb is the amount of biomass, g; Vpt is the specific biooxidation rate calculated by (2) for the variable concentration pt of the non-stationary process, g/gb-h; dRw is the volume of the moving infinitesimal water layer, m3; H is the bioreactor height, m; Fw is the water layer area, m2; v is the specific absorption rate per unit height of the bioreactor, g/m h.
In (5), uniform biomass distribution along the bioreactor is assumed.
Upon proceeding to concentrations, (3) can be transformed to the following form:
Due to resizing, in comparison with the experiment, recalculation of the coefficient is necessary:
a = 10-3 ■ a*,
(18)
Pt =Prt -„J VptdL
(8)
where a* is the empirical coefficient, determined directly from the experimental data.
The numerical integration algorithm (11)-(17) is convergent, but requires a much smaller integration step (At=0.0002 h) to achieve high accuracy in comparison with a stationary process [1].
The results of calculations of the hydrogen sulfide biotreat-ment process depending on the initial pollution concentration in the trickling water po, the maximum background concentration prm and the initial biomass concentration |0 are shown in Fig. 2, 3.
where | is the biomass concentration in the volume of the space occupied by water, gb/m3.
By differentiating (8) in time, we get:
éPL=den-„V dt dt „v
(9)
The expression (9) is the basic differential equation of the non-stationary biotreatment process in the bioreactor of the considered type. In comparison with the basic differential equation of a stationary process, there is an additional term, which considers non-stationarity as a result of the continuous absorption process. In the form of total differentials, Eq. (9) can be represented as:
dPt = dPrt + dPV
(10)
o 'g 0,6
S s 04 3 S
0,1 0,15
t - process duration, h
where dPVt is the differential of the concentration change due to the biooxidation process, g/m3.
The relation (10) shows that the differentially small change in the harmful matter concentration in water at each timepoint is equal to the algebraic sum of the differentially small concentration changes due to absorption and biodegradation processes. The expression (10) is, in fact, a differential analog of the mass balance of the given non-stationary process.
Fig. 2. Process duration effect on the hydrogen sulfide
concentration in the moving water: water movement time in the bioreactor tm=0.2 h; initial hydrogen sulfide concentration in the trickling water p0=1 g/m3; initial biomass concentration in the bioreactor |Jo=1000 g/m3; the maximum background hydrogen sulfide concentration in water prm=5 g/m3; curve — numerical integration results; points — calculations by the approximate formula
The obtained data confirm the achievement of a final stage of the non-stationary process after a certain period of time, characterized by constant pollution concentration in water. Let's call it equilibrium concentration pe since it
u
0,8
0,2
0
0
0,05
0,2
0,25
corresponds to the onset of dynamic balance in the non-stationary process. The value of equilibrium concentration does not depend on the initial pollution concentration, increases with the pollution volume increase and decreases with the biomass concentration increase. In the examples, the dynamic balance was reached approximately at the water layer outflow from the bioreactor (tm=0.2 h).
0,6
0,4
0,2
0,1
0,05
0,1 0,15
t - process duration, h
0,25
Fig. 3. Process duration effect on the hydrogen sulfide
concentration in the moving water: water movement time in the bioreactor tm=0.2 h; initial hydrogen sulfide concentration in the trickling water p0=0.2 g/m3; initial biomass concentration in the bioreactor |j0= 1000 g/m3; the maximum background hydrogen sulfide concentration in water prm=5 g/m3; curve — numerical integration results; points — calculations by the approximate formula
Dynamic balance is determined by the condition:
¿Pit + dpvt = 0 (19)
or in the finite increments:
dpri +dpVi =0. (20)
Let the mass of harmful matter, absorbed by water per unit of time per unit of biomass be called the specific rate of pollution arrival to the bioreactor Vg:
Vg=— >
8 m.
(21)
where g0 is the intensity of pollution arrival to the bioreactor, g/h, or
(22)
V = "" 8>td-
Given At^O, we assume:
that dynamic balance is achieved at lower specific rates of pollution arrival into the bioreactor than the maximum specific biooxidation rates, that is, under the condition:
V s b.
(25)
Failure to comply with (25) leads to an unlimited increase in the harmful matter concentration in the water withdrawn from the bioreactor. We can state that (25) determines the boundary of implementation of effective biotreatment, process. As for hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide, this boundary virtually corresponds to the specific pollution arrival rate Vg=0.04 g/gb-h. Thus, equilibrium concentrations do not reach the values of 90 and 60 g/gb-h, respectively (Fig. 4). The ammonia curve correlates with the hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide curves on a scale of about one to ten.
100
90
80
70
30
20
10
1
1 1 /
1
1 1 ! 1
1 / / ! 1
/ / / / 1
/ / / /
/ / / /
/ / / , ✓ / /
I y y . / / y *
^y^ y
0 0,01 0,02 0,03 0,04 0,05
Vg- specific rate of pollution arrival to the bioreactor, g/gb"h
Fig. 4. Phase diagram of the process, characterized by simultaneous pollution degradation and dissolution in water: solid curve — ammonia; dotted — hydrogen sulfide; dash-dotted — sulfur dioxide
ApVi=-jiVpiAt
(23)
and then from (14), (20) and (23), we get, the relation for calculating the equilibrium pollution concentration:
VPP=Vg>
(24)
where Vpp is the specific biooxidation rate determined by (2) for the equilibrium harmful matter concentration, g/gb-h.
Fig. 4 presents the phase diagram of hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide and ammonia biotreatment. It should be noted
In case the dynamic balance is achieved, the desired process characteristic - the harmful matter concentration at the bioreactor outlet p1; is obviously equal to:
Pi = PB
and p is calculated by (24).
(26)
However, if the biotreatment process duration (the residence time of water in the bioreactor) is insufficient to achieve the dynamic balance, its final state can be determined only by designing the course of the entire process.
0,5
h 0,3
0
0,2
60
50
40
0
6. Discussion of the research results and mathematical modeling of the biotreatment process
The above approach (11)-(17) is a mathematical solution that allows designing the course of the entire biotreatment process, including the equilibrium state. However, as shown above, the equilibrium state can be calculated precisely and much easier by (24).
Therefore, we consider the possibility of biotreatment process design without attempting to determine the equilibrium state simultaneously. To do this, we present a discrete change in the mass balance of pollution in the water layer of finite thickness SH and area Fw as it moves for a finite time interval St; and given the concentration change equal to Spj. Then, by determining the subsequent values of time ti+1 and concentration pi+1 from their previous values as:
ti+1 =ti + Sti,
(27)
calculation by (35) leads to 8tj—However, according to the calculation results in Fig. 2, 3, (35) describes well the concentration change over the period of time preceding the achievement of dynamic balance.
The accuracy, sufficient for engineering calculations, is achieved by dividing the possible concentration change from the initial value p0 to almost equilibrium value pe into eight intervals. Moreover, p0 is zero in the absence of water reuse. Note that in order to get a uniform distribution of calculated points, the latter three intervals should amount to about a tenth of a percentage point of the indicated maximum concentration range.
Thus, if the biotreatment process duration td is insufficient to achieve the equilibrium state, the desired pollution concentration in water at the bioreactor outlet p1 can be determined using the approximate formula (35). Thus, given a certain number of intervals (5-8), for which in the sequential calculation by (35) the following condition is satisfied:
pi+1 = pi + Spi, (28) ti =£Sti,
we can, by analogy with the previously stated, write down: we get
(36)
Gi+i = Gi + SGri -8GM, Gi+i = Pi+i FwSH, Gi =pi FwSH, SGri = v SH Sti,
SGVi = mt ■ VCiSti
(29)
(30)
(31)
(32)
(33)
Pj = ZSPi.
(37)
The expression (33) assumes uniform biomass distribution along the bioreactor height and averaged specific biooxidation rate:
v=V+ilV.
(34)
where Vi+1 and V; are specific biooxidation rates, determined from the concentrations pi+1 and p;, respectively, g/gb-h.
After the transformations, we get an approximate formula for calculating the time interval 8ti needed to change the concentration in the water layer by the value of §p;:
St =-
SPi
MV, -Vci)
(35)
The formula (35) does not give a solution directly for the equilibrium concentration since when (24) is satisfied, the
The proposed mathematical model of the kinetics of the considered non-stationary biotreatment process, based on the approximate formula (35), can be recommended for practical calculations, as combining the desired accuracy and sufficient simplicity.
7. Conclusions
1. It was found that experimental dependences of the specific biooxidation rate on the pollution concentration have a maximum. Changes in the specific degradation rate as for hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide are within 12-40 mg/g of biomass per hour, and for ammonia 1.5-5 mg/g, respectively. It was revealed that the nature, as well as qualitative and quantitative parameters of the dependencies, prove the technological possibility of biotreatment of the water-soluble gaseous harmful matter.
2. The mathematical model of biotreatment of gaseous pollutants, which considers the process non-stationarity due to continuous absorption of pollutants by the water of the trickling layer of the bioreactor was developed. It is the algorithm based on the mass balance and empirical dependence of the specific oxidation rate on the hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide and ammonia concentrations. Its feature is an accounting of the state of dynamic balance, which determines the boundary of implementation of effective biotreatment process.
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