Recuperação de enxofre elementar em reatores microaerados / Sulfur recovery in micro-aerobic reactors

AUTOR(ES)
FONTE

IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

30/03/2012

RESUMO

The occurrence of biological sulfate reduction results in the formation of unwanted hydrogen sulfide, which can be removal under oxygen-limiting conditions. Detailed knowledge of this process remains unclear and the micro aeration process was prevented by technological limitations. For these reasons, the chemical and biological oxidation of sulfide was studied in two configurations of reactors using porous polymer membrane (silicon membrane) as an alternative to micro aeration. The configurations present two forms of micro-aeration by internal pressure (Submerged Membrane Reactor- SMR) and an external one (External Membrane Reactor EMR) with aeration by air exchange. The micro aeration was evaluated through the global oxygen mass transfer coefficient (KLa). The average results obtained for KLa were 0.10 h-1 for SMR and 0.154 h-1 for EMR, confirming the micro aeration. The settings were operated to evaluate the chemical and biochemical oxidation of sulfide to elemental sulfur by different variables: pH, pressure (for SMR) and flow/membrane area (for EMR) through factorial design. The chemical oxidation showed high sulfide conversion to sulfur, with mean value of 91.3% in SMR and 79.2% in EMR and conversion to sulfate of 2.3% in SMR and 15.7% in EMR. The biochemical oxidation in EMR showed mean values of sulfide conversion to sulfur of 41.6% and 52.8% for sulfate. The oxidation of sulfidogenic reactor effluent was evaluated and obtained mean values of 48.7% for conversion to elemental sulfur and 46.7% to sulfate. The variable studies showed that the variable pH is significantly for sulfide oxidation. The SMR presented operational problems invalidating their use. The use of membranes, showed a high viability due to its ability to micro aeration especially because of the operating variables, radius and membrane thickness. In general the reactors were efficient due the low sulfate yields. Thus the reactors proved are viable settings to the conversion of sulfide to elemental sulfur.

ASSUNTO(S)

enxofre elementar kla kla membranas de silicone micro-aeration microaeração silicon membranes sulfeto sulfide sulfur

Documentos Relacionados