不同滤料滤池启动期内对铁锰离子的去除机制

采用两座小试生物滤池,考察了锰矿砂和石英砂滤料在启动期内对铁锰离子的去除特性,并结合材料表征手段解析了过滤去除机制.启动运行结果表明,在进水铁锰质量浓度为2～3 mg·L~(-1)和0. 3～0. 6 mg·L~(-1)时,石英砂滤池分别需要15 d和30 d完成铁锰的去除,而锰矿砂滤池在10 d内完成除铁过程,而出水锰质量浓度始终低于0. 1 mg·L~(-1),满足国标要求.锰矿砂表面天然铁锰氧化物的吸附催化作用是其去除效果优于石英砂的关键.一方面,当铁氧化物在石英砂滤池内形成后,其同样能继续吸附催化铁离子,两滤池对铁离子的最终转化产物为复合氧化物,2价与3价铁的比值在1∶1. 44～1∶1. 54之间.其次,在启动期内,锰矿砂滤池对锰离子的去除以吸附催化氧化完成,其产物为3价态锰,而后续在生物作用下趋于转化为4价;石英砂滤池对锰离子的去除以吸附主导,但吸附容量饱和后以生物作用为主.最终,锰离子转化产物为2价、3价和4价态的复合态氧化物.此外,锰氧化产物呈层状结构,铁氧化产物为颗粒形态,二者均能披覆在滤料表面,但后者更容易被反洗出滤层,而前者则倾向于披覆在锰矿砂表面或积累在石英砂滤层孔隙间.

Mechanism of Removing Iron and Manganese from Drinking Water Using Manganese Ore Sand and Quartz Sand as Filtering Material

Two lab-scale biofilters packed with manganese ore sand and quartz sand were constructed to reveal the behavior in removing iron and manganese during the start-up period. Meanwhile, the removal mechanism of the two sands was also investigated by means of EDS, XPS, and SEM. With the influent iron (2-3 mg·L^-1) and manganese (0.3-0.6 mg·L^-1), the start-up operational results indicated that the quartz sand biofilter needed 15 and 30 d to achieve the removal of iron and manganese, respectively. The manganese ore sand only required 10 d to remove iron, while the effluent manganese was always below of 0.1 mg·L^-1. The results confirmed that the natural iron and manganese oxides coated on the manganese ore sand surface could explain its better removal behavior as compared to quartz sand. However, the generated iron oxide could also act as the adsorbent and catalyst like natural iron oxide, only when iron removal occurred in the quartz sand biofilter. The final product of iron removal was a complex consisting of divalent and trivalent iron, with a specific value of 1:1.44-1:1.54. Moreover, during the start-up period, manganese ore sand transformed manganese from divalent to trivalent by the catalytic effect, while the latter tended to be converted to the quadrivalent state under the bioactivity. The quartz sand could adsorb manganese but easily became saturated, and then the removal was dominated by bioactivity. The product generated by the manganese removal process was also a complex with the three valences. Moreover, the two complexes could coat onto the surface of the sands, but most of the iron complex was easily washed out of the filtering layer. Conversely, the manganese complex tended to coat onto the manganese ore sand surface or accumulate between the pores of quartz sand.