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PELEGRINO, E. C. F. (2016). Performance evaluation of an anaerobic biological reactor with bed made of flexible fibers applied to sewage treatment. 2016. Thesis (PhD), Department of Hydraulics and Sanitation, School of Engineering of São Carlos, University of São Paulo. 210 p + appendices. São Carlos, SP. In the last decades, many different types of support media have been proposed for improving the efficiency and / or increasing the compactness of biological reactors treating domestic sewage. The results obtained in the application of a new type of up flow anaerobic bioreactor with flexible fibers bed applied to synthetic wastewater treatment are presented in this PhD thesis. Its design was motivated by the difficulties observed in some types of expanded bed reactors, which may lose their initial hydrodynamic characteristics during operation time, due to the biomass accumulation, leading to inhomogeneous bed expansion. The proposed nylon fiber is used as the support media due to its ability to operate as flexible bed – when it is fixed at only one end which, due to its flexibility, also has characteristics similar to the moving bed. In this new type of bed design, the biomass attached to the flexible fibers acquire the form of long filaments, which, due to the sewage flow and the rotation axis in which the fibers are fixed, remain extended in order to provide high volume /surface ratio. This biomass in the form of fine filament remains firmly attached to the flexible fibers, thereby reducing the potential loss of biomass along with the effluent, as well as possible pore clogging, which are common in granular beds. For this study, a pilot installation consisted of six parallel reactors in the form of vertical columns with continuous upflow was designed, constructed, operated and evaluated for 458 days. In these reactors were varied configuration settings and operation as: i) the density of flexible fibers that composed the bed of flexible fibers; ii) the rotation of the vertical axis where the bed fibers were fixed; iii) the hydraulic retention time (in steps 1 to 4, HDTs of 9, 6, 4 and 3 hours were tested, respectively); iv) interruption of the rotation in the reactor in progress. The organic load removal and the reactors vertical profile efficiencies were analyzed, as well as the biomass composition found in biofilm, with image analysis and microscopy. The results demonstrate that the configuration of reactors provided excellent results of organic load removal and also proved to be able to adapt to variations in flow rates applied during the tests. The best results were observed in Step 1 in phase 1, where the reactor 2 presented removal efficiency of 91% of total COD, 96% of filtered COD, 86% of BOD and 60% of SST. Reactors with higher fiber density presented improved efficiencies and remained more stable, considering the investigated characteristics. The application of rotation was proved to cause a positive interference on the efficiency of the reactors removal, mainly for lower fiber density, and the increase of this rotation also brought improvements in the organic load removal. The rotation interruption caused en efficiency reduction for the evaluated parameters. Three post-treatments of the effluent of anaerobic reactor were analyzed: flotation, sedimentation (with and without coagulant) and filtration on flexible fibers filter in phase 2. The most suitable post-treatment to be applied along with the anaerobic reactor with flexible fibers was the flotation by separation (without addition of coagulant), which presented removal of 71% of turbidity, 51% of apparent color, 40% of COD, 25% of filtered COD, 34% of total phosphorus and 52% of SST. In the evaluation of the most appropriate chemical-physical post-treatment, the dissolved air flotation presented better results when using the PAC coagulant in the dosage of 14 mg.L -1 of the active principle of Al2O3, with removal efficiency of 84% of turbidity, 73% of apparent color, 50% of total COD, 31% of filtered COD, 45% of total phosphorus and 62% of TSS.

Avaliação do desempenho de um reator biológico anaeróbio com leito constituído de fibras flexíveis aplicado ao tratamento de esgoto