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| Adsorption characteristics of sulfide onto the activated sludge of municipal wastewater treatment plants |
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Abstract In this study, activated sludge samples were collected from 3municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) and the performance and impacting factors of sulfides adsorption onto the activated sludge were investigated. The impacting factors include sulfides concentration, temperature, pH and other anions. Adsorption isotherm of sulfide onto the activated sludge can be well described by Langmuir equation. The maximum sulfide adsorption capacity was 15~27mg/g-dry sludge. At the temperatures ranging from 5to 35℃, adsorption capacity increased by the rise in temperature and this implies the sulfides adsorption was an endothermic process. The pH value had little effect on the adsorption capacity from 2to 7. But the sulfides adsorption capacity decreased significantly when pH was lower than 2. Sulfides were adsorbed by activated sludge as anions (HS- and S2-) and it was a chemical adsorption process. Cl- ranging from 0 to 25mg/L or SO2- 4 ranging from 0 to 12mg/L did not affect the sulfides adsorption capacity.
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Received: 10 August 2013
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