Performance of an activated carbon adsorber in a water reclamation system with an electrolysis reactor

Choon-Hwan Shin; Jun-Seok Bae

Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.15, No.2, 179-184, March, 2009

DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2008.09.015 Export Citation

Performance of an activated carbon adsorber in a water reclamation system with an electrolysis reactor

Choon-Hwan Shin^†, and Jun-Seok Bae¹

Department of Environmental Engineering, Dongseo University, Busan 607-716, Republic of Korea
¹Division of Chemical Engineering, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia

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In this study, an activated carbon adsorber was designed to remove chlorine that was generated from an electrolytic reactor in a water reclamation system. Among three commercial granular activated carbons, an appropriate one, which has relatively high surface area with small headloss, was chosen to fill up the adsorber. The chlorine removal efficiencies of the adsorber were found to be 93.3% in total and 73.6% in free chlorine, showing its great effect on chlorine removal. In particular, since total chlorine was removed more than free chlorine, one would expect that as the residence time gets shorter, the chlorine removal efficiency will increase. Thus the results will be useful for continuous experiments to determine the chlorine removal efficiency in the membrane separator for the effluent from the adsorber. Beside chlorine removal, the organic matters can be additionally removed through the adsorber by 13.3% in CODMn whereas the removal efficiencies of T-N and T-P by the adsorber were found to be similar to those by the electrolytic reactor.

Keywords:Water reclamation system;Electrolysis reactor;Activated carbon;Chlorine removal

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[Referenced By]

[1] Oliver JM, Hitchens GD, Kada L, Verostko CE, Water Res., 26, 443 (1992)

[2] Chiang LC, Chang JE, Wen TC, J. Environ. Sci. Health, 30, 753 (1995)

[3] Savail A, Chimia, 49, 23 (1995)

[4] Ljiljana M, Leitx FB, J. Appl. Electrochem., 8, 333 (1978)

[5] Shin CH, Bae JS, J. Ind. Eng. Chem., 13, 7 (2007)

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[10] Shin CH, Johnson R, J. Ind. Eng. Chem., in press. (2009)

[11] Oh WC, Ko WB, J. Ind. Eng. Chem., 12(3), 373 (2006)

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[13] Lee SJ, Choo KH, Lee CH, J. Ind. Eng. Chem., 6(6), 357 (2000)