Paper mill wastewater

The deep shaft biological treatment process,87 which is one of the activated sludge systems, has been successfully applied to a paper mill wastewater treatment in Japan (see Case Study III, Section 21.6.3). 

Wang, M.H.S., Wang, L.K., and Pivero de Aguilar, J.C., Pulp and paper mill wastewater, part II Environmental control aspects, Journal of Environmental Management, 8, 25-42, 1979 (UK). 

Keith LH. 1976. Identification of organic compounds in unbleached treated kraft paper mill wastewaters. Environ Sci Technol 10 555-564. 

The first effect of paper mill wastewater discharge is the depletion of oxygen in the receiving waters, caused by oxygen-consuming microbial degradation of... 

The legislative restrictions (in 2006) are such that most pulp and paper mill wastewaters can be discharged after activated-sludge treatment. Furthermore, there are no restrictions in many countries on the intake of process water. In the future, there will most probably be limitations on the amount of intake water and the limitations for discharge loads will be tightened. The cost of freshwater will not decrease and this will force mills to increase their water reuse. 

Rodrigues, A.C., Boroski, M., Shimada, N.S. etal. (2008) Treatment of paper pulp and paper mill wastewater by coagulation-flocculation followed by heterogeneous photocatalysis. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A-Chemistry, 194(1), 1-10. 

M. Ghorbani, H. Eisazadeh, Fixed-bed column removal of chemical oxygen demand, anions, and heavy metals from paper mill wastewater by using polyaniline and polypyrrole nanocomposites on carbon nanotubes. J Vinyl Addit Techn 2013,19 (3), 213-218. 

Uses Biocide, slimicide for paper mill wastewater treatment pesticide slimicide in food-contact paper/paperboard... 

Schematic diagram of the integrated membrane process for the treatment of paper mill wastewater. 1 - sedimentation tank 2 - anoxic tank 3 and 4 - aerobic tanks 5 - sludge treatment equipment. MBR = membrane bioreactor UF = ultrafiltration RO = reverse osmosis. (Adapted from Zhang eta ., 2009.)... 

Pokhrel D and Viraraghavan T (2004), Treatment of pulp and paper mill wastewater - a review , Sci Total Environ, 333,37-58. 

Jiang Y, Marang L, tamis J, van Loosdrecht MC, Dijkman H, Kleerebezem R. Waste to resource converting paper mill wastewater to bioplastic. Water Res 2012 46 5517-30. 

Wong, S.S. Teng, T.T. 2006. Treatment of pulp and paper mill wastewater by polyacrylamide (PAM) in polymer induced flocculation. Journal of Hazardous Materials 135 378-388. 

Table 10.1. Effectiveness of different AOPs in the treatment of paper mill wastewater. Elaborated from the results in Ref. 28.

Jamil, T., Ghaly, M., El-Seesy, L, et al, (2011). A Comparative Study Among Different Photochemical Oxidation Processes to Enhance the Biodegradability of Paper Mill Wastewater, J. Hazardous Materials, 185, pp. 353-358. 

The most common oxidants for AOPs are O3 and H2O2. Laboratory-scale treatments of pulp and paper mill wastewater have been undertaken using O3, O3 with UV, and O3 with UV and ZnO. Little difference between rate and extent of treatments when using O3 alone, or simultaneously with UV radiation were observed (22), However, when ZnO was added, the system was more efficient at treating wastewater. The amount of O3 required varied between 20 and 300... 

Bengtsson S, Worker A, Christensson M, Welander T (2008) Production of polyhydroxy-alkanoales by activated sludge treating a paper mill wastewater. Bioresour Technol 99 (3) 509-516... 

Activated sludge Paper mill wastewater 48 P(3HB-co-3HV) Bengtsson et al. (2008)... 

Bengtsson, S., Werker, A., Christensson, M., Welander, T. Production of polyhydroxyalkanoates by activated sludge treating a paper mill wastewater. Biores Technol 2008, 99, 509-516. 

Chlorine Petroleum refining, photographic processing, pulp and paper mills, wastewater treatment plants, disinfectants... 

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