Advanced treatment method and system of ethanolamine-containing wastewater
are disclosed, which perform physicochemical and biological treatment
processes. The method regenerates cation exchange resin that captures
ethanolamine discharged from a nuclear power plant or a thermal power
station, concentrates the ethanolamine-containing wastewater to reduce
the volume of the wastewater, and then treats the highly concentrated
ethanolamine-containing wastewater through biological decomposition and
denitrification processes. The system for treating
ethanolamine-containing wastewater performs the physicochemical process
(ion-exchange and resin regenerations) where the waster is concentrated,
and then applies the biological process to the small amount of wastewater
highly concentrated. The physicochemical process is composed of
exchanging ions and eluting/concentrating ethanolamine using sodium
hydroxide. The wastewater of a few to tens of thousands ppm is
transferred and undergoes a biological process where the ethanolamine is
decomposed, converted into CO.sub.2 and N.sub.2 through the anoxic tank
and two aerobic tanks, and then discharged in gas. Therefore, the
wastewater is discharged, satisfying the biochemical oxygen demand value
and the nitrogen content required by the environmental discharge
standard.