ABSTRACT
Selections of contacting and regeneration systems are integrated to a total system design. The contacting and regeneration systems are essentially independent but linked by the carbon utilization rate, and compromises must be made between contacting system and regeneration system sizes in order to minimize overall costs. This chapter demonstrates how to take pilot and laboratory data from activated carbon studies on a particular wastewater stream and determine the size and number of required adsorbers or tanks, and if necessary, the size of a furnace for the reactivation of spent carbon. It presents detailed procedures for economic evaluation. In developing design data from pilot studies, all conditions expected in the full scale system should be duplicated as closely as possible. There are a number of separation techniques available to remove the carbon and other solids from the effluent.
