Considering South Korea`s geographical and environmental condition, water is depending on rainfall which has been intensive during monsoon season so water resource management has been difficult. Water demand is constantly increasing and reuse of indus...
Considering South Korea`s geographical and environmental condition, water is depending on rainfall which has been intensive during monsoon season so water resource management has been difficult. Water demand is constantly increasing and reuse of industrial wastewater has been in the spotlight recently as a way to resolve worldwide water shortages and increase of wastewater amount due to various industry development.
In this study, the reuse possibility of industrial water for scrubber, cooling tower and ultra pure process using effluent from a semiconductor wastewater treatment plant was reviewed. Recovery rate of inlet and rejection rate of major water quality items were compared by different arrangement and condition of process.
A, B, C reaction processes were applied to a membrane basically and B, C reaction process were studied using a softening, high-speed aggregation sedimentation basin as pre-treatment process.
A reaction process applies only UF and 1'st RO & 2'nd RO process and operates 1'st RO and 2'nd RO in a neutral region of pH condition(7-8). B reaction process applies pre-treatment by softening and high-speed flocculation process with UF and 1'st RO & 2'nd RO process and operates 1'st RO and 2'nd RO in a neutral region of pH condition(7-8). C reaction process applies pre-treatment by softening and high-speed flocculation process with UF and 1'st RO & 2'nd RO process and operates 1'st RO in a neutral region of pH condition(7-8) and 2'nd RO in a alkaline region of pH condition(10-11).
In this study, total recovery ratio of UF and RO process was found to be 39% from A, 57.7% from B, 45% from C respectively. The rejection ratio of turbidity at UF was found to be 77% from A, 89% from B, 83% from C respectively. As turbidity rejection rate of B, C process which has pre-treatment process showed higher than A process which has not pre-treatment process, so pre-treatment is expected to be able to reject the other water quality items as well as turbidity.
Conductivity rejection ratio of RO was shown as 99.8% from A, 99.7% from B and TOC rejection ratio was found to be 92.9% from A, 95.2% from B respectively. In the case of conductivity rejection at C process, 1'st RO removal was 98% but conductivity concentration of 2'nd RO was detected higher than 1'st RO because of NaOH injection for inlet of 2'nd RO in order to maintain pH 10 at 2'nd RO. As a result of pH condition control to be pH 10 in order to improve the TOC rejection ratio, the actual TOC rejection ratio of C showed as 99% higher rejection ratio than A and B.
The average concentration of main quality items to conductivity, TOC at final production water were 1.98∼43 ㎲/㎝, 0.045∼0.3 mg/L, respectively. The final production water met the water quality requirements of scrubber and cooling tower and semiconductor ultrapure water process.
Therefore, the production water is expected to be able to reuse as industrial water through a membrane process using the effluent from semiconductor wastewater treatment plant.