Development of a dynamic model for effective mitigation of membrane fouling through biogas sparging in submerged anaerobic membrane bioreactors (SAnMBRs)

Akangbe Olubukola; Rajneesh Kumar Gautam; Tuhin Kamilya; Shobha Muthukumaran; Dimuth Navaratna

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116151

Development of a dynamic model for effective mitigation of membrane fouling through biogas sparging in submerged anaerobic membrane bioreactors (SAnMBRs)

J Environ Manage. 2022 Dec 1:323:116151. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116151. Epub 2022 Sep 18.

Authors

Akangbe Olubukola¹, Rajneesh Kumar Gautam², Tuhin Kamilya³, Shobha Muthukumaran⁴, Dimuth Navaratna⁵

Affiliations

¹ École Spéciale de Mécanique et d'Electricité (ESME Sudria), Paris, 94200, France. Electronic address: olubukola.akangbe@esme.fr.
² Institute for Sustainable Industries & Liveable Cities, College of Engineering and Science, Victoria University, Melbourne, VIC, 3011, Australia. Electronic address: rajneesh.gautam@live.vu.edu.au.
³ Department of Earth and Environmental Studies, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, West Bengal, India. Electronic address: tuhinkkamilya@gmail.com.
⁴ Institute for Sustainable Industries & Liveable Cities, College of Engineering and Science, Victoria University, Melbourne, VIC, 3011, Australia. Electronic address: shobha.muthukumaran@vu.edu.au.
⁵ Institute for Sustainable Industries & Liveable Cities, College of Engineering and Science, Victoria University, Melbourne, VIC, 3011, Australia; ITCGU, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Prof. E. O. E. Pereira Mawatha, Kandy, 20000, Sri Lanka. Electronic address: dnavaratna@pdn.ac.lk.

PMID: 36130427
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116151

Abstract

The deterministic mechanistic model derived from the fundamental of the dynamical fouling system was investigated to estimate fouling parameters, with theoretical biogas sparging performance evaluated of a Submerged Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor treating trade wastewater. The result showed that the sparging effectiveness of EPSc removal was average, 35% higher than the sparging effectiveness of EPSp, with the coefficient of fouling removal characterizing the dynamic time behaviour increasing with the organic loading rate. The dynamic system analysis predicted that the process gain for SAnMBR-1 was more than 30% compared with SAnMBR-2, which supported a widely known theory of fouling dependence of organic loading rate.

Keywords: Biogas sparging; Coefficient of mass deposition; Fouling control; Rate of fouling removal; Submerged anaerobic membrane bioreactors (SAnMBR); Trade wastewater.

MeSH terms

Anaerobiosis
Biofuels*
Bioreactors
Membranes, Artificial
Waste Disposal, Fluid
Wastewater*

Substances

Biofuels
Membranes, Artificial
Waste Water