The treatment of wastewater containing crude oil with aerated submerged fixed-film reactor

Abstract

An aerated submerged fixed-film (ASFF) bioreactor was developed to treat an artificial wastewater based on crude oil. Bee-Cell 2000 was used as support media having porosity of 87% and a specific surface area of 650 m2 m-3. The system was able to achieve 70.87-93.12% removal efficiencies of Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) in the organic loading rate range of 1.310 to 15.797 g COD m-2 day-1. Data gained exhibited that the effluent COD concentration ranged between 68.68 and 292.60 mg L-1 at organic loadings experienced. Therefore, an ASFF process showed that it was feasible to treat high oily wastewater in order to meet the discharge standards. © 2007 Asian Network for Scientific Information.