Giuseppe Vecchiato

Consorzio Venezia Ricerche

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Silvia Di Fabio

University of Verona

Francesco Fatone

Marche Polytechnic University

Franco Cecchi

Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi

L. Masotti

University of Ferrara

Evina Katsou

Imperial College London

Simos Malamis

National Technical University of Athens

Aleksandra Jelić

University of Verona

David Bolzonella

University of Verona

Serena Cattaneo

Watershed Center

Ferdinando Marciano

Consorzio Venezia Ricerche

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University of Verona

Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale La Chimica Per L'Ambiente

Consorzio Venezia Ricerche

Marche Polytechnic University

University of Ferrara

Center for Translational Neurophysiology of Speech and Communication

National Technical University of Athens

Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Imperial College London

Brunel University of London

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Are centralized MBRs coping with the current transition of large petrochemical areas? A pilot study in Porto-Marghera (Venice)

Chemical Engineering Journal (2012)

Silvia Di Fabio Simos Malamis Evina Katsou Giuseppe Vecchiato Franco Cecchi

Petrochemical

10.1016/j.cej.2012.10.015

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Nano-occurrence and removal of PCBs within the Europe's largest petrochemical MBR system

Water Research (2015)

Aleksandra Jelić Silvia Di Fabio Giuseppe Vecchiato Franco Cecchi Francesco Fatone

Industrial wastewater treatment

10.1016/j.watres.2015.07.009

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Efficacy and Reliability of Upgraded Industrial Treatment Plant at Porto Marghera, near Venice, Italy, in Removing Nutrients and Dangerous Micropollutants from Petrochemical Wastewaters

Water Environment Research (2011)

Paola Verlicchi Serena Cattaneo Ferdinando Marciano L. Masotti Giuseppe Vecchiato

Chemical and petrochemical wastewaters contain a host of contaminants that require different treatment strategies. Regulation of macropollutants and micropollutants in the final discharge from industrial wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) have become increasingly stringent in recent decades, requiring many WWTPs to be upgraded. This article presents an analysis of a WWTP treating petrochemicals in Porto Marghera, Italy, that recently was upgraded following legislative changes. Because of strict legal limits for macropollutants and micropollutants and a lack of space necessary for a full‐scale WWTP overhaul, the existing activated sludge tank was converted into a membrane biological reactor. The paper presents experimental data collected during a five‐month investigation showing the removal rates achieved by the upgraded plant for macropollutants (particularly nitrogen compounds) and micropollutants (heavy metals and organic and inorganic toxic compounds).

Petrochemical

10.2175/106143011x12928814445177

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Cycling batch vs continuous enrichment of endogenous nitrifiers in membrane bioreactors treating petrochemical wastewater

Desalination and Water Treatment (2011)

Silvia Di Fabio Cristina Cavınato David Bolzonella Giuseppe Vecchiato Francesco Fatone

Petrochemical wastewater treatment is a new sector for the possible widespread application of membrane bioreactor technology. In this field, hard to degrade compounds such as amines and nitrogen residuals were generally the major issues. In addition, over the last years the irregular operation of the manufacturing plants involved drastic variability of the wastewater's loadings and characteristics, so as to call for more flexible schemes of the treatment plants. This paper compares two different schemes of a continuously fed membrane bioreactor to adequate the nitrification potential to the influent loadings. These are: a) controlled and continuous external ammonia dosage; b) sequencing batch nitrifier enrichment. On the basis of lab and pilot-scale treatment of real petrochemical wastewater, the cyclic batch enrichment process proved to be reliable, cost-effective, and easy to control, being more flexible with respect to changeable influent loadings.

Petrochemical

Membrane bioreactor

Sequencing batch reactor

Batch processing

10.5004/dwt.2011.3132

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