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Performances of Anoxic- Aerobic Membrane Bioreactors for The Treatment of Real Textile Wastewater

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    Corresponding: Ahmed Albahnasawi
    Co-authors: Albahnasawi A. *, Yüksel E., Eyvaz M., Gürbulak E., Polat E.,Arslan S.
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    gnest_03201
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https://doi.org/10.30955/gnj.003201
Abstract

Wastewater from textile industry is considered one of the major environmental challenges due to the large volume of highly colored, polluted and toxic effluent. This study investigated the treatability of real textile wastewater by pilot-scale anoxic-aerobic Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) system without sludge wasting for operation period of 100 days. The proposed system was investigated under different Internal Recycle (IR) ratios and the impact of IR ratio on Total Organic Carbon (TOC), Total Nitrogen (TN) and Color removals were examined. Under IR ratios between anoxic and aerobic tanks of 0.0, 0.5 and 2.0, the respective average removal efficiency of TN was 20.9%,53.4% and 71.7%, whereas average color removal of 81%, 85% and 88%, respectively was noted. The results indicated that increase of recycle ratio from 0.5 to 2.0 enhanced TN removal to about 71% and color removal to above 85%. The IR between anoxic and aerobic tanks has a significant role in TN and color removal due its effect on the development of bacterial communities. On the other hand, the results indicate over 93% TOC removal, which was independent of IR ratio.

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Anoxic-Aerobic Bioreactor de-colorization Internal Recycle Textile Wastewater.
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Albahnasawi, A. et al. (2020) “Performances of Anoxic- Aerobic Membrane Bioreactors for The Treatment of Real Textile Wastewater”, Global NEST Journal, 22(1). Available at: https://doi.org/10.30955/gnj.003201.
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