Optimum conditions to treat high-concentration microparticle slime water with bioflocculants

We studied how bioflocculants,produced by white-rot fungi,affect flocculation in slime water.Based on a test in an orthogonal design,flocculation conditions were optimized.The results show that flocculation activity is at its highest when the following conditions are met:slime water concentration 27.42 g/L;coagulant aid(CaCl_2) mass concentration 5.0 g/L;two-segment stirrings:the first at a stirring speed of 60 r/min for 180 s and the second 180 r/min for 60 s;a pH of 11 and a flocculant concentration of 15 mL/L.The flocculation activity can be up to 98.71%of bioflocculants at the time.Further experiments indicate that most of the flocculation active material is found outside the mycelium cells.This is the extracellular secretion produced by mycelium cells during the fermentation process.This flocculant has strong thermal stability.Many kinds of cations have a flocculation function to assist bioflocculants.This aid-flocculation effect of the divalent cation Ca^(2+) is obvious in the bioflocculant produced by the white-rot fungus.Therefore,this is of great value when applied to control engineering in the battle against water pollution.

Experimental study on slime water flocculation sediment based on the montmorillonite hydration expansion inhibition

Through the montmorillonite settlement experiment in the clear water and electrolyte solution, the influence of slime water settling character was studied in clear water and different electrolyte solution, the montmorillonite＇s hydration ex- pansion effectively restrained was verified, the process method to wash coal with the electrolyte was put forward, and the re- sults indicate that the solution of 10 g/L KC1 is optimal inhibitor on the montmorillonite in the tested three kinds of electrolyte solution. With the contrast test in clear water and electrolyte solution, two reagent adding way can be selected in KC1 solution： one way is to add PAM separately, the effectively sedimentation can be made with simply 0.1% anion; the other way is the co- ordination with polymeric aluminum and PAM, the anionic of PAM and polymeric aluminum are 0.02% and 0.5% respectively. However, in clear water, the polymeric aluminum must be joined together with the anionic PAM, and the amount of the PAM reaches 0.5%, which is 25 times as great as that in KCL solution. The field work with raw coal further verifies the above con- clusions further.