A Winning Combination? Chlorine Dioxide, Dissolved Air Flotation, and Submerged Membranes for DBP Control in Source Waters with High Bromide and Reactive TOC
成功的组合?二氧化氯、溶解气浮和浸没式膜 用于在高溴化物和活性TOC源水中控制DBP
Sweetwater Authority (SWA) owns and operates the Robert A. Perdue Water Treatment
Plant (WTP), a 30 mgd conventional filtration plant located in San Diego County,
California. This paper documents the results of SWA's pilot testing of chlorine dioxide
(ClO2), dissolved air flotation (DAF), and submerged microfiltration/ultrafiltration
(MF/UF) membranes, begun in early 2004, as a reliable and cost-effective treatment
strategy for meeting future disinfection byproduct (DBP) regulations.
The Perdue WTP treats two source waters, local surface water from Sweetwater
Reservoir (SWR) (average total organic carbon (TOC) = 6.5 mg/L, bromide up to 0.5
mg/L) and San Diego County Water Authority (CWA) aqueduct water (average TOC =
2.5 mg/L, low bromide). SWA currently applies free chlorine and potassium
permanganate (KMnO4) to the raw SWR water and uses chloramines in the distribution
system. However, excessive trihalomethanes (THMs) formation is a potential concern for
compliance with the Stage 2 Disinfection Byproducts Rule using the Locational
Running Annual Average (LRAA) method. The current testing program was preceded by
pilot testing of intermediate-ozone with enhanced coagulation (30 mg/L ferric chloride)
and bench-scale testing of ClO2 and ferric chloride doses up to 80 mg/L, results of which
are also highlighted in this paper.
CWA was responsible for the first phase of DAF and MF/UF membrane testing at the
Perdue WTP site, using the CWA Aqueduct water as the pilot feedwater. With DAF as
pretreatment, both of the submerged membrane systems tested provided reliable water
quality at fluxes above 30 U.S. gallons per square foot per day (gfd) (51 liters per hour
per square meter), with recoveries around 95%, for at least 30 days before the need for
membrane clean-in-place (CIP).
For the SWR water testing, the full-scale WTP influent is being treated with ClO2 at
doses up to 1.5 mg/L, and chlorite is controlled by applying ferrous chloride (FeCl2) at a
3.3:1 ratio of ferrous ion to chlorite. The first two weeks of the SWR water testing used
DAF pretreated water as the feedwater to the membrane pilots while the following six
weeks used settled water from the full-scale plant as the membrane feedwater to compare
the effects of these two pretreatment options on membrane operation. Membrane fluxes
were set initially based on the results from the CWA water testing and optimized to
provide a minimum 30 day CIP interval. ClO2 was evaluated as the plant primary
disinfectant with chloramines downstream of the membranes for distribution system
residual. In addition to monitoring the performance of the DAF and membrane systems,
simulated distribution system (SDS) testing was conducted on the membrane filtrate on a
weekly basis to estimate disinfection byproduct (DBP) formation.
The process combination of ClO2, DAF, and submerged membranes represents a
promising process combination for agencies seeking to meet the Stage 2 DBP Rule with
source waters with high bromide and highly reactive TOC. Includes 3 references, figures.