Modelling Industrial Wastewater Ozonation In Bubble Contactors. 2. Scale-up From Bench To Pilot Plant

Abstract

Abstract A kinetic model constituted by ozone mol balance equations both in the gas and in the water phases and a total mole balance equation has been applied to predict concentrations of dissolved ozone, Co3, ozone partial pressure at the reactor outlet, P(o3)0, and remaining chemical oxygen demand, COD, for the ozonation of two industrial wastewaters released from distillery and tomato processing plants. Kinetic equations for ozone absorption rate present in the model were derived from the application of film theory to an irreversible gas-liquid reaction. Parameters involved in the model, reaction rate and mass transfer coefficients, Henry's law constant, etc., were estimated from bench-scale experiments. The model was applied to ozonation in bubble contactors of height/diameter ratio equal to that of the bench scale contactor and to a pilot plant bubble column of a height/diameter ratio about 3.6 times higher.