Purification of pulp and paper wastewater, with membrane technology, for water reuse in a closed loop

Pizzichini, M.; Russo, Claudio; Meo, Chiara Di

doi:10.1016/j.desal.2004.11.045

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“…Thus, the permeate can be used as intake water for a paper mill, making it possible to run the operation with close to zero liquid effluent (Pizzichini et al 2005;Khosravi et al 2011;Hermosilla et al 2012a;Saif et al 2013). Sierka et al (1997), Zhang et al (2009), andBennani et al (2012) evaluated systems in which nanofiltration was used as a preliminary step before reverse osmosis separation of paper industry wastewater, reporting almost complete removal of solutes.…”

Section: Membrane Polishing Filtrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wastewater Treatment and Reclamation: A Review of Pulp and Paper Industry Practices and Opportunities

Hubbe

Metts

Hermosilla

et al. 2016

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The pulp and paper (P&P) industry worldwide has achieved substantial progress in treating both process water and wastewater, thus limiting the discharge of pollutants to receiving waters. This review covers a variety of wastewater treatment methods, which provide P&P companies with costeffective ways to limit the release of biological or chemical oxygen demand, toxicity, solids, color, and other indicators of pollutant load. Conventional wastewater treatment systems, often comprising primary clarification followed by activated sludge processes, have been widely implemented in the P&P industry. Higher levels of pollutant removal can be achieved by supplementary treatments, which can include anaerobic biological stages, advanced oxidation processes, bioreactors, and membrane filtration technologies. Improvements in the performance of wastewater treatment operations often can be achieved by effective measurement technologies and by strategic addition of agents including coagulants, flocculants, filter aids, and optimized fungal or bacterial cultures. In addition, P&P mills can implement upstream process changes, including dissolved-air-flotation (DAF) systems, filtration save-alls, and kidney-like operations to purify process waters, thus reducing the load of pollutants and the volume of effluent being discharged to end-of-pipe wastewater treatment plants. Keywords: Wastewater treatment; Pulp and paper manufacturing; Advanced oxidation; Membrane technologies; Clarification; Activated sludgeContact information: a: North Carolina State University, Dept. of Forest Biomaterials, Campus Box 8005, Raleigh, NC 29695-8005; b: WestRock Company, Water and Waste Treatment, 600 S 8th St, Fernandina Beach, FL 32034; c: Department of Agricultural and Forestry Engineering, University of Valladolid, Campus Duques de Soria, E-42004 Soria, Spain; d: Complutense University of Madrid, Department of Chemical Engineering, Ingn. Quim, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Ciudad Universitaria s/n,S-N, E-28040 Madrid, Spain; e: Concordia University, Dept. Bldg. Civil & Environm. Engn., 1455 Maisonneuve Blvd, West Montreal, PQ H3G 1M8, Canada; f: University of Jyväskylä, Dept. Chem., Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland; g: Department of Biology, Center for Environmental and Marine Studies, CESAM, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal; h: Department of Environment and Planning, Center for Environmental and Marine Studies, CESAM, Aveiro & Department of Materials and Ceramics, Institute of Materials, CICECO, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal; i: FPInnovations, 570 St. Jean Blvd., Pointe Claire, PQ H9R 3J9, Canada; * Corresponding author: hubbe@ncsu.edu Contents of the Article INTRODUCTIONThe pulp and paper (P&P) industry occupies a challenging position with respect to the natural environment. On the positive side, the industry is based on the usage of renewable, photosynthetic resources. On the other hand, the industry discharges huge quantities of aqueous effluents. Large volumes (up to 70 m 3 ) of wastewater ...

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Section: Membrane Polishing Filtrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wastewater Treatment and Reclamation: A Review of Pulp and Paper Industry Practices and Opportunities

Hubbe

Metts

Hermosilla

et al. 2016

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183

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“…All these noncarbohydrate materials may be regarded as harmful substances, especially when considering the biochemical utilization of carbohydrates in hydrolysates, and usually some kind of purification or detoxification of acidic hydrolysates is required (Delgenes et al 1996;Olsson and Hahn-Hägerdal 1996;Palmqvist and Hahn-Hägerdal 2000a,b;Nilvebrandt et al 2001). Several purification possibilities, such as solvent extraction (Cruz et al 1999;Garrote et al 2003;Vázquez et al 2005;Moure et al 2006;Parajó et al 2008), resin treatment (Nilvebrandt et al 2001;Conde et al 2008;Schwartz and Lawoko 2010), and membrane assisted filtration (such as ultrafiltration) (Mänttäri et al 1997;Bhattacharya et al 2005;Pizzichini et al 2005;Vegas et al 2006;Sjöman et al 2008) have been proposed for production of detoxified substrates for subsequent fermentation processes.…”

Section: Acidic Pretreatmentsmentioning

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“…In the pulp and paper industry, membrane technology has already been implemented for recycling chemicals, for cleaning process effluents, and for removing impurities from water circulation systems (Mänttäri et al 1997(Mänttäri et al , 2002Koivula et al 2011Koivula et al , 2012Koivula et al , 2013Krawczyk et al 2013). Several different membrane filtration processes, such as microfiltration (MF), ultrafiltration (UF), nanofiltration (NF), and reverse osmosis (RO), have been used in the pulp and paper industry, mainly for concentration and fractionation of spent liquors, to remove color and to treat bleaching effluents (Bhattacharya et al 2005;Pizzichini et al 2005). UF, for example, has been suggested for the recovery of hemicelluloses from the process waters of pulp mills producing thermomechanical pulp (TMP) (Persson and Jönsson 2010).…”

Section: Fractionation Of Pretreatment Effluentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Chemical Pretreatments of Wood Chips Prior to Alkaline Pulping - A Review of Pretreatment Alternatives, Chemical Aspects of the Resulting Liquors, and Pulping Outcomes

Lehto

Alén

2015

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The chemical industry is being forced to evaluate new strategies for more effective utilization of renewable feedstocks to diminish the use of fossil resources. In this literature review, the integration of both acidic and alkaline pretreatment phases of hardwood and softwood chips with chemical pulping is discussed. Depending on the pretreatment conditions, high-volume sulfur-free fractions with varying chemical compositions can be produced. In case of acidic pretreatments, the major products include carbohydrates (mono-, oligo-, and polysaccharides), whereas under alkaline (i.e., aqueous NaOH) pretreatment conditions, the sulfur-free fractions of aliphatic carboxylic acids, lignin, and extractives are primarily obtained. All these fractions are potentially interesting groups of compounds and can be used in a number of applications. Finally, the effects of pretreatments on pulping are also considered. Although it is believed that there are important advantages to be gained by integrating this type of renewable raw material-based production, in particular, with kraft pulping, sulfur-free pulping methods such as soda-AQ and oxygen/alkali delignification processes are also briefly discussed.

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“…On the other hand, RO membranes permit complying with the most stringent regulations for public health and environment protection. Both types of membranes are already applied in the management of industrial eluents of very diferent sectors, such as stainless steel [40], energy cogeneration [41], nuclear power [42], textile and tannery [43][44][45][46][47], coking [48,49], carwash [50], pulp and paper [34,51], pharmaceutical [52], and agro-food industries, such as dairy [13], tomato [12], and olive oil [5][6][7][8][9][10]24], among others. However, again, the problem of fouling is always present in the treatment of any kind of eluent by NF and RO membranes.…”

Section: Nanoiltration and Reverse Osmosis Membranesmentioning

confidence: 99%

On the Purification of Agro-Industrial Wastewater by Membrane Technologies: The Case of Olive Mill Effluents

Ochando-Pulido¹,

Martínez-Férez²

2017

Desalination

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Purification of pulp and paper wastewater, with membrane technology, for water reuse in a closed loop

Cited by 111 publications

References 8 publications

Wastewater Treatment and Reclamation: A Review of Pulp and Paper Industry Practices and Opportunities

Wastewater Treatment and Reclamation: A Review of Pulp and Paper Industry Practices and Opportunities

Chemical Pretreatments of Wood Chips Prior to Alkaline Pulping - A Review of Pretreatment Alternatives, Chemical Aspects of the Resulting Liquors, and Pulping Outcomes

On the Purification of Agro-Industrial Wastewater by Membrane Technologies: The Case of Olive Mill Effluents

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