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Optimization of Quartz Sand Enhanced Coagulation for Sewage Treatment by Response Surface Methodology

Version 1 : Received: 12 June 2024 / Approved: 12 June 2024 / Online: 13 June 2024 (03:16:02 CEST)

How to cite: Zhang, Z.; Li, Y.; Liu, Y.; Li, Y.; Wang, Z.; Wang, D.; Yan, L.; Zhao, J.; Li, B. L. Optimization of Quartz Sand Enhanced Coagulation for Sewage Treatment by Response Surface Methodology. Preprints 2024, 2024060824. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202406.0824.v1 Zhang, Z.; Li, Y.; Liu, Y.; Li, Y.; Wang, Z.; Wang, D.; Yan, L.; Zhao, J.; Li, B. L. Optimization of Quartz Sand Enhanced Coagulation for Sewage Treatment by Response Surface Methodology. Preprints 2024, 2024060824. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202406.0824.v1

Abstract

In the process of sewage coagulation treatment, quartz sand is often used as a heavy medium to accelerate the settling rate of flocs, but it will adversely affect the removal efficiency of pollutants. The factors that affect the coagulation effect and can be controlled manually include the quartz sand dosage, coagulant dosage, sewage pH, stirring time, settling time, etc, their reasonable setting is critical to. This paper was to study the optimal conditions of quartz sand enhanced coagulation(QSEC), first, single-factor tests were conducted to preliminarily explore the optimal range of influencing factors, and then response surface methodology(RSM)tests were performed to accurately determine the optimums of significant factors. The results showed that the addition of quartz sand can’t improve the water quality of coagulation treatment, but it can significantly accelerate the coagulation settlement process, the quartz sand dosage, the coagulant dosage and sewage pH all impacted significantly on its coagulation effect, and existed inflection points. A model that could guide QSEC was obtained by RSM tests. The model optimization and experimental validation showed that the optimal QSEC conditions for treating domestic sewage were as follows: the polyaluminum chloride(PAC) dosage, cationic polyacrylamide(CPAM) dosage, the sewage pH, quartz sand dosage, stirring time and settling time were 0.97 g·L-1, 2.25 mg·L-1, 7.22, 2 g·L-1, 5 minutes and 30 minutes, respectively, and the turbidity of treated sewage was reduced to 1.15 NTU.

Keywords

quartz sand; coagulation; response surface methodology; turbidity; polyaluminum chloride

Subject

Environmental and Earth Sciences, Water Science and Technology

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