Biological treatment of wastewater from a polymer coating process
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Wastewater containing propylene glycol methyl ether from a powder and E‐coating plant was treated biologically. The wastewater was circulated through a packed column at rates of 0.014, 0.028, and 0.042 m 3 m −2 s −1 (14, 28, and 42 kg m −2 s −1 ) with an airflow in a countercurrent direction. Various air flowrates from 0.034 to 0.10 m 3 m −2 s −1 (0.041–0.12 kg m −2 s −1 ) were used. The removal of the biological oxygen demand (BOD) of the wastewater did not change significantly with the air flowrate. After 4 days of treatment in the packed column the BOD was reduced by about 70% while a BOD reduction of 10% was observed with the wastewater in a stagnant tank. BOD removal with aeration in the packed column was about 40% higher than that without aeration. At the air flowrate of 0.068 m 3 m −2 s −1 and the liquid flowrate of 0.028 m 3 m −2 s −1 , BOD removal for the wastewater seeded with Polyseed® increased by about 25% compared with that of the unseeded wastewater. In order to minimize the power consumption, cyclic pumping of the liquid to the packed column with aeration was also tested. For the liquid‐pumping cycle of 2‐h on and 4‐h off, BOD removal was about the same as that with a continuously pumping operation. © 2002 Society of Chemical Industry
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".