Removing Iron and Manganese Simultaneously from Ground Water Using One-stage Biological Filter

摘要

A novel process for removing iron and manganese simultaneously in ground water,which consisted of simple aeration and one-stage filtration,was developed in this research. It was found that the biological process had much higher manganese removal efficiency than chemical contact oxidation process. At the same time,the optimal operation parameters of aeration and biological filtration such as DO concentration and pH after aeration,filtration rate before and after startup,filtration operation cycle and backwashing rate,etc.,were also obtained by experiments. By analyzing water quality in different positions of filter bed,it was found that the oxidation of Fe2+ in biological filter bed adapted to first-order reaction,whereas the oxidation of Mn2+ conformed to zero-order reaction,which could be explained by Michaelis-Menten enzyme reaction equation when substrate concentration was far more than bacteria amount.