ABSTRACT
Industrial wastewater usually has high organic load and contain lots of toxic substances, which is hard to be treated. Because of many advantages such as the high organic loading rating tolerance, and outstanding pollutants degradation ability, excellent sedimentation characteristics, and low operation cost, aerobic granular sludge (AGS) has the great potential to treat industrial wastewater. The application of AGS for industrial wastewater treatment still needs to be explored. Because of the type of diversity and the complex components of industrial wastewaterBesides, the technical features of AGS are versatile and there were no unified regular characteristics, which hindered the AGS plant application for industrial wastewater treatment. Therefore, in this work, the development of AGS industrial wastewater treatment in the last decade was summarized. Then, the technical features of AGS industrial wastewater treatment including process flow, reactor types, operation parameters, treatment efficiency, and application prospects were all summarized and analysed. Finally, the existing problems in the treatment of industrial wastewater by AGS and future development tendencies were discussed.
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Notes on contributors
Sijia Zheng, Graduate student. Her research work is wastewater treatment technology.
Haifeng Lu PhD, Associate professor. Her research work is wastewater treatment and resource recovery technology. She has now published 30 papers and obtained 10 patents. She has obtained 10 programs and projects donation from National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing Scientific and Technology Committee, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation etc. She had published book 'Photosynthetic bacteria wastewater treatment and resource recovery technology' (in Chinese).
Guangming Zhang, PhD, Professor. Her research work is wastewater and waste treatment and resource recovery technology and advanced oxidation technology. She had published about 150 papers and obtained about 30 programs from National Natural Science and Foundation of China, Ministry of science and technology of the people's Republic of China, Ministry of ecology and environment of the people's Republic of China and many enterprise etc.
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Sijia Zheng http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8808-4453