BIODETOXIFICATION OF HAZARDOUS WASTEWATERS WITH ACTIVATED ROTATING BIOLOGICAL CONTACTORS.

Abstract

Toxic organic wastes, either from industrial processes or improper hazardous waste disposal sites, pose a very controversial environmental management problem. Other than storage (landfills) or thermal degradation (incineration), very few disposal alternatives are available. Enhanced biological degradation may offer a technologically sound as well as economical solution to disposal of hazardous landfill leachate or industrial process waste streams. This research focuses on the potential for biological degradation of hazardous organic wastes using rotating biological contactors (RBC) modified to include an aeration basin and final clarifier with sludge recycle to the fixed film media. These systems have been appropriately designated activated rotating biological contactors (ARBC). The research reported in this paper was designed so that the ARBC system would be compared to a completely mixed activated sludge system with respect to treatability of hazardous organic wastes.

Publication Title

Proceedings of Mid-Atlantic Industrial Waste Conference

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