Abstract
The current study focused on treatment of phenolic wastewater using an integrated process – dosing of ozone directly to activated sludge. The main goal was to analyze the effect of ozonation on viability of activated sludge in different systems – activated sludge in distilled water and activated sludge in wastewater. Two viability detection methods, oxygen uptake (OUR) rate and adenosine-5'-triphosphate measurement (ATP), were compared. The linear correlation between ATP and OUR measurements in studied range was found to be good (r2 = 0.90). In case of ozonation of activated sludge in wastewater, ozone doses up to 42 mgO3·gMLVSS−1 did not influence the viability of sludge. In addition, contrary to ozonation of sludge in distilled water, soluble COD was reduced by 15.6% (at ozone dose of 42 mgO3·gMLVSS−1).
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