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Water Recovery from Advanced Water Purification Facility Reverse Osmosis Concentrate by Photobiological Treatment Followed by Secondary Reverse Osmosis Keisuke Ikehata, Yuanyuan Zhao, Harshad Kulkarni, Yuan Li, Shane A. Snyder, Kenneth P Ishida, and Michael A. Anderson Environ. Sci. Technol., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b00951 • Publication Date (Web): 19 Jun 2018 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on June 21, 2018

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Water Recovery from Advanced Water Purification

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Facility Reverse Osmosis Concentrate by

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Photobiological Treatment Followed by Secondary

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Reverse Osmosis

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Keisuke Ikehata†*, Yuanyuan Zhao†, Harshad V. Kulkarni†, Yuan Li†, Shane A. Snyder‡, Kenneth

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P. Ishida§, and Michael A. Anderson⊥

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Pacific Advanced Civil Engineering, Inc., Fountain Valley, California 92708, U.S.A.

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Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson,

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Arizona 85721, U.S.A.

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Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University,

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Singapore 637141

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U.S.A.

Orange County Water District, Fountain Valley, California 92708, U.S.A. Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521,

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Corresponding Author: Tel: +01-714-270-0824; email: [email protected]

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ABSTRACT

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Reverse osmosis (RO)-based desalination and advanced water purification facilities have

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inherent challenges associated with concentrate management and disposal. Although enhanced

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permeate recovery and concentrate minimization are desired, membrane scaling due to inorganic

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constituents such as silica, calcium, phosphate, and iron hinders the process. To solve this

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problem, a new diatom-based photobiological process has been developed to remove these

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scaling constituents by biological uptake and precipitation.

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samples were collected from a full-scale advanced water reclamation facility in California and

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were treated in 3.8- and 57-L photobioreactors inoculated with a brackish water diatom

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Pseudostaurosira trainorii PEWL001 using light-emitting diode bulbs or natural sunlight as a

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light source. The photobiological treatment removed 95% of reactive silica and 64% of calcium

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and enabled additional water recovery using a secondary RO at a recovery rate up to 66%. This

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represents 95% overall recovery including 85% recovery in the primary RO unit. In addition to

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the scaling constituents, the photobiological treatment removed twelve pharmaceuticals and

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personal care products, as well as N-nitrosodimethylamine, from RO concentrate samples

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primarily via photolysis. This novel approach has a strong potential for application to brackish

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water desalination and advanced water purification in arid and semi-arid areas.

In this study, RO concentrate

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1. Introduction

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According to the membrane water treatment facility database maintained by the American

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Membrane Technology Association, there are approximately 1000 reverse osmosis (RO)-based

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desalination and advanced water purification facilities (AWPFs) in the United States.1 Although

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the RO technology has been proven very useful and reliable to produce very high quality, near

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drinkable permeate from non-potable water resources, such as brackish groundwater and

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recycled water,2, 3 it generates a concentrate stream of 15 to 25% needing disposal. Concentrate

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generation and management has been one of the major challenges for utilities that own and

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operate RO-based water treatment facilities.3, 4 The availability of economical methods for

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concentrate disposal is becoming a critical factor for successful RO-based water reclamation and

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groundwater desalination projects, especially in the inland areas where ocean discharge is not an

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option.

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One way to reduce the concentrate volume at an RO facility is to increase permeate recovery.

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However, the solubility limits of inorganic constituents, such as calcium carbonate, calcium

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phosphate, silica, and calcium sulfate, are often exceeded in the RO concentrate when the

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permeate recovery rate is increased. This causes scaling on the membrane surface and a

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reduction in permeate flux making higher recovery impractical. Several technologies have been

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proposed and tested to improve the permeate recovery, including use of antiscalants and

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secondary RO,2, 5 removal of scaling constituents by ion exchange or chemical softening,6

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variation of the RO process with mechanical vibrations or precise control of concentrate

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discharge,7, 8 and non-RO based desalination processes, such as forward osmosis and

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electrodialysis reversal.9-12 However, these technologies are highly chemical and/or energy

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intensive. In addition, the permeate quality in terms of dissolved constituent concentrations

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tends to decline at a higher recovery because more passage of dissolved constituents occurs as

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the reject stream becomes more concentrated unless a softening process is employed. Also, no

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trace organic removal could be expected by any of the existing methods.

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Recently, a new photobiological process using brackish water diatoms has been developed to

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treat RO concentrate.13, 14 This unique process utilizes the natural biology of diatoms

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(Bacillariophyceae), which are a class of photosynthetic microalgae whose cells are enclosed by

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a rigid silicon dioxide (silica; SiO2)-based structure called frustule.15, 16 Diatoms are capable of

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absorbing aqueous silica requiring the silicon for growth and cell division. It is also known that

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up to 70% of the dry weight of the cell is silica.17 Our previous studies demonstrated the rapid

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removal of aqueous silica from silica-rich agricultural drainage water RO concentrate from two

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AWPFs and one brackish groundwater desalination facility using a mixed culture14 or isolated

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diatom strains.13 In addition to aqueous silica and macronutrients, orthophosphate, ammonia,

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nitrate, calcium, bicarbonate, iron, and manganese were also effectively removed by the

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photobiological treatment. Since many of these constituents are known RO scalants/foulants, it

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was speculated that the photobiologically-treated RO concentrate could be desalinated further by

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a secondary RO to recover more water.14

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The main objective of this study was to explore the feasibility of additional water recovery from

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AWPF RO concentrate by photobiological treatment followed by secondary RO. The

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photobiological treatment was conducted indoors with light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs or

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outdoors with natural sunlight. In addition to the laboratory-scale photobioreactors previously

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described,14 a new 57-L pilot-scale photobioreactor was designed, constructed, and used in this

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study. The removal of important trace wastewater contaminants, including pharmaceuticals and

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personal care products (PPCPs), as well as metals and N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) by the

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photobiological process was also examined.

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2. Experimental Section

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Diatom Strain and RO Concentrate Samples

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A brackish water diatom Pseudostaurosira trainorii E. Morales PEWL001 previously isolated

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from agricultural drainage water14 was used in this study. RO concentrate samples were

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obtained from the third stage of a full-scale RO unit at the Groundwater Replenishment System

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(GWRS) of the Orange County Water District (OCWD) in Fountain Valley, CA in January–May

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2017. The RO concentrate samples were analyzed for water quality parameters upon arrival

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(Table 1) and refrigerated until use. The RO concentrate samples were typically used 4 to 5 days

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after the collection to ensure the absence of chloramine residual (