Removal of organics from shale gas fracturing flowback fluid using expanded granular sludge bed and moving bed biofilm reactor.

Environmental Technology
Yu SunPing Yang

Abstract

Shale gas fracturing flowback fluid contains various degradation difficulty organic compounds after hydraulic fracturing. A hybrid treatment method was developed for treating flowback and produced water (FPW) using pre-treatment (NaClO) followed by the expanded granular sludge bed (EGSB) and moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR). Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) was employed to detect organic composition in the FPW, the pre-treated FPW, EGSB and MBBR effluent. FPW had high chemical oxygen demand (COD) (3278 mg/L) and the majority of organic compounds in the FPW composed of alkanes and heteroatomic compounds with polymers and polarity. 20% COD removal was achieved after adding 5 g/L of NaClO in FPW (pH = 7, stirring for 20 mins) as pre-treatment and > C30 alkanes in FPW were decomposed a lot in the pre-treatment process. The pre-treated FPW was diluted (volumetric ratio of 20%/50%) with synthetic wastewater/pure water. In the final stage of operation, Cl- and COD concentration of influent to EGSB-MBBR system was around 7000 ± 100 mg/L and 3000 mg/L. EGSB-MBBR system achieved 93.84% COD removal rate, in which EGSB dominated COD removal (>80%). According to the GC-MS results, EGSB had an increase of C11-C30 compounds and a...Continue Reading

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