Ozone and biofiltration optimization for multiple objectives

Biofiltration can be an effective drinking water treatment process when ozo nation is practiced beforehand. The objectives and therefore the designs of these two processes are usually not related to biological treatment goats, and no effort has been made to determine the compatibility of the goals of these integrated treatment processes. The optimal application of ozone (O- 3) for disinfection is the minimum dose that provides a target level of mic roorganism inactivation. This dose was equivalent to the optimal O-3 dose f or biological treatment, defined as the minimum dose that would achieve the maximum relative BDOCrapid removal. Additionally, the O-3 process is limit ed with respect to controlling the formation of BDOCrapid. Increasing the O -3 dose beyond the optimal dose will result in little additional BDOCrapid formation, little additional release of biodegradable dissolved organic car bon to the distribution system, and an increase in the cost of operation. A conceptual approach for optimizing the O-3 and biofiltration processes for biological treatment objectives is described for three case studies. The r esults indicate that biological treatment goals can be satisfied to a large degree while simultaneously meeting other drinking water treatment objecti ves such as disinfection and particle removal.