Download or read book Optimization of Biological Nutrient Removal Systems to Minimize Effluent Variability written by Krisztina Bordacs and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biological Nutrient Removal BNR Operation in Wastewater Treatment Plants WEF Manual of Practice No 30 written by Water Environment Federation and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2006 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MOP 109 & WEF MOP 30 describes the theory, equipment, and practical techniques needed to optimize BNR in varied environments.
Download or read book How Low Can You Go written by Rachel Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing energy costs and climate change necessitate an optimization of energy use at wastewater treatment plants for a sustainable future. Aeration within the biological nutrient removal (BNR) process accounts for a large portion of energy consumption at a wastewater treatment plant. As such, reducing the aeration input is considered a primary solution to reducing the energy required for wastewater treatment. While successful BNR at lower than conventional dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations has been demonstrated, challenges remain before reduced aeration can be implemented at full-scale. In Chapter 1, we first compared two automated aeration control strategies under low-DO conditions in two pilot-scale treatment systems. We showed that effective, year-round BNR can be achieved with both strategies by increasing the solids retention time. However, both pilot-scale processes experienced poor solids settleability during the winter. While settleability was recovered during warmer temperatures, improving settling quality under low-DO remains a challenged to be resolved. In Chapter 2, we investigated the short- and long-term effect of DO reductions on the production and emission of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas. We found that while increases in nitrous oxide production and emission immediately followed DO reductions, long-term emissions decreased after prolonged operation under low-DO conditions. Process nuisances and performance deviations (e.g. nitrite accumulation) also corresponded with increased emissions. Finally, in Chapter 3, we used genome-resolved metagenomics and metatranscriptomics to explore the diversity and dynamics of the Candidatus Accumlibacter lineage, key organisms contributing to phosphorus removal from wastewater. We found that Accumulibacter community was highly diverse across time in multiple pilot-scale low-DO systems, supporting evidence that most members of this lineage have a high affinity for oxygen. The information gained in these studies expands on the feasibility and implications of low-DO wastewater treatment at full-scale and adds to our understanding of the microbial community carrying out BNR under these conditions.
Download or read book An Operator s Guide to Biological Nutrient Removal BNR in the Activated Sludge Process written by Michael H. Gerardi and published by Chemical Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents - List of Tables - List of Figures - PART ONE: NITRIFICATION - Chapter 1 Introduction - Chapter 2 Nitrogenous and Phosphorous Compounds - Chapter 3 Nitrification: The Basics - Chapter 4 Nitrifying Bacteria - Chapter 5 Nitrification and Limiting Factors - Chapter 6 Promoting Nitrification - PART TWO: DENITRIFICATION - Chapter 7 Denitrification: The Basics - Chapter 8 Denitrifying Bacteria - Chapter 9 Denitrification and Limiting Factors - PART THREE: BIOLOGICAL PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL - Chapter 10 Biological Phosphorus Removal: The Basics - Chapter 11 EBPR: Process Control - Abbreviations and Acronyms - Glossary - Bibliography - Biological nutrient removal (BNR), the removal of nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater, is a complex process. Although the activated sludge process is an efficient technology for the removal of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and total suspended solids (TSS), it provides less-than-optimal conditions for the removal of nitrogen and phosphorus, and presents numerous challenges to the operator trying to satisfy the many requirements for several different groups of bacteria. In addition to satisfying the requirements there are numerous, highly variable operational conditions that impact BNR. These conditions include: changes in strength and composition of the wastewater, alkalinity and pH, temperature, and presence of inhibitory and toxic wastes. Even fluctuations in flows, especially from inflow and infiltration, can adversely impact the aerobic, anoxic, and anaerobic conditions needed for successful BNR. Of the three treatment processes, nitrification, denitrification, and enhanced biological removal, nitrification is often the most difficult to achieve. Therefore, a large portion of this book reviews nitrification. Operators of the activated sludge process need to understand the basic biological, chemical, and physical requirements for BNR in order to improve the performance of these treatment processes. An Operator's Guide to Biological Nutrient Removal (BNR) in the Activated Sludge Process is intended to help operators in the monitoring, troubleshooting, and process control of BNR. Numerous tables and figures are included in the book to help the operator understand the biological and chemical reactions that are involved in BNR processes and how the reactions can be monitored for process control. Design of BNR processes is not addressed in this book. Design is addressed in numerous engineering publications. The book serves to help operators achieve permit compliance for nitrogen and phosphorus discharge limits and obtain cost-effective operation. -
Download or read book Biological Nutrient Removal BNR Operation in Wastewater Treatment Plants written by Water Environment Federation and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2005-11-15 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BNR is a fast-growing method of removing biological pollutants (bacteria, etc.) from wastewater. Experts from both the Water Environment Federation and the American Society of Civil Engineers have collaborated on this definitive work which is intended to be a practical manual for plant managers and operators who needed current information on BNR.
Download or read book Design and Retrofit of Wastewater Treatment Plants for Biological Nutritient Removal written by Clifford W. Randall and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1998-05-06 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents information that can be used for the design and operation of wastewater treatment plants that utilize biological nutrient removal processes, i.e., processes that utilize biological mechanisms instead of chemical mechanisms, to remove phosphorus and nitrogen from wastewaters. The book provides: basic fundamentals, concepts, and theories; design of prefermentation units, various types of BNR systems, and secondary clarifiers; retrofitting conventional activated sludge plants; modeling considerations; and special considerations for BNR systems. It includes full-scale and pilot plant case histories, design examples, and retrofit of existing plants.
Download or read book Characterizing Mechanisms of Simultaneous Biological Nutrient Removal During Wastewater Treatment written by P. F. Strom and published by IWA Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simultaneous biological nutrient removal (SBNR) is the removal of nitrogen and/or phosphorus in excess of that required for biomass synthesis in biological wastewater treatment systems where there are no defined anaerobic and/or anoxic zones. The hypothesis is that one or more of three mechanisms is responsible within individual systems: variations in the bioreactor macroenvironment created by the mixing pattern, gradients within the floc microenvironment, and/or novel microorganism activity. Understanding of the mechanisms of SBNR can be expected to lead to improved efficiency and reliability in its application. Preliminary work documented SBNR in 7 full-scale OrbalTM closed loop bioreactors. A batch assay demonstrated that novel microorganism activity was of little importance in SBNR at the three plants tested. While the floc microenvironment likely plays an important role in nitrogen removal in such plants, it cannot explain phosphorus removal. A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model was developed to elucidate the role of the bioreactor macroenvironment in SBNR. This is the first reported application of CFD to activated sludge biological wastewater treatment. Although the software and computational requirements limited model complexity, it still simulated the creation of dissolved oxygen gradients within the system, demonstrating that the anaerobic zones required for SBNR could occur.
Download or read book Biological Nutrient Removal from Municipal Wastewater written by Zhirong Hu and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text offers a systematic review and summary on the development of biological nutrient removal (BNR) in fundamental research and practical applications. It provides the latest information about state-of-the-art BNR technology in wastewater treatment, including new filtration and membrane systems. This guide presents extensive coverage of several basic BNR biochemical processes (nitrification, denitrification, and EBPR), three types of BNR processes (conventional single sludge systems, recently developed two sludge systems, and MBR BNR systems), recently widely used process modeling and simulation technology, and key aspects of process design, operation, and control.
Download or read book Tuning Biological Nutrient Removal Plants written by Ken Hartley and published by IWA Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tuning Biological Nutrient Removal Plants increases interest in tuning to enhance both performance and capacity, to provide insight into typical plant operating characteristics, and to stimulate operators' interest in studying the behaviour of their own plants. The book focuses on understanding of plant behavioural characteristics so that optimum performance can be achieved and maintained. Tuning Biological Nutrient Removal Plants is carefully organized to cover: influent and effluent characteristics; process fundamentals; individual process characteristics; overall plant characteristics; the evolutionary operation approach to tuning. The approach is practical and the use of mathematics is kept to a minimum and information is supplied in graphical and tabular form. Real operating data from a wide range of plant experiences is included. The book draws on the generosity of many Australian plant owners in permitting their plant data to be incorporated. Not all process types are covered but the tuning principles expounded are universally applicable. The capacity and performance capabilities of a plant are not fixed; both are amenable to on-going enhancement through systematic and enthusiastic effort. The book helps to set new benchmarks in plant operation. Tuning Biological Nutrient Removal Plants is a valuable resource for sewage treatment operations and operations support personnel, sewage process design engineers - operating authorities, consultants, contractors, operators of industrial wastewater treatment plants and sewage treatment lecturers in chemical engineering departments and other training organisations. About the author: Ken Hartley, B.Tech, M.Eng.Sc Fellow, Institution of Engineers, Australia Member Australian Water Association Member International Water Association. Ken Hartley has 45 years' experience in the water and wastewater industry. He has worked for the South Australian water and wastewater authority, consultants GHD and the University of Queensland. Since 1998 he has been an independent consulting process engineer.
Download or read book Operation of Nutrient Removal Facilities written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This manual is ideal for plant managers, operators, design engineers, and regulators looking to gain a better understanding of fundamental biological and chemical processes that are in use at nutrient removal facilities and the ways that operators may use, monitor, and control these processes to meet their facility's treatment goal. Table of contents Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Wastewater Constituents that Affect Nutrient Removal Chapter 3: Nitrification Chapter 4: Nitrification in Biofilm Reactors Chapter 5: Denitrification Chapter 6: Combined Nitrifying and Denitrifying Systems Chapter 7: Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal Chapter 8: Chemical Precipitation of Phosphorus Chapter 9: Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal Systems Chapter 10: Combined Nitrogen and Phosphorus Removal Processes Chapter 11: Optimization of Nutrient Removal Systems Chapter 12: Recycle Streams Management Chapter 13: Process Control Using Oxidation-Reduction Potential and Dissolved Oxygen Chapter 14: Process Control, Instrumentation, and Automation Chapter 15: Laboratory Analyses Chapter 16: Case Studies-Nitrification and Denitrification Chapter 17: Case Studies-Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal Appendix A Optimization and Troubleshooting Guides This book was prepared by the Operation of Nutrient Removal Facilities Task Force of the Water Environment Federation.
Download or read book Handbook of Biological Wastewater Treatment written by Adrianus van Haandel and published by IWA Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-20 with total page 819 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scope of this comprehensive new edition of Handbook of Biological Wastewater Treatment ranges from the design of the activated sludge system, final settlers, auxiliary units (sludge thickeners and digesters) to pre-treatment units such as primary settlers and UASB reactors. The core of the book deals with the optimized design of biological and chemical nutrient removal. The book presents the state-of-the-art theory concerning the various aspects of the activated sludge system and develops procedures for optimized cost-based design and operation. It offers a truly integrated cost-based design method that can be easily implemented in spreadsheets and adapted to the particular needs of the user. Handbook of Biological Wastewater Treatment: Second Edition incorporates valuable new material that improves the instructive qualities of the first edition. The book has a new structure that makes the material more readily understandable and the numerous additional examples clarify the text. On the website www.wastewaterhandbook.com three free excel design spreadsheets for different configurations (secondary treatment with and without primary settling and nitrogen removal) can be downloaded to get the reader started with their own design projects. New sections have been added throughout: to explain the difference between true and apparent yield while the section on the F/M ratio, and especially the reasons not to use it, has been expanded; to demonstrate the effect of the oxygen recycle to the anoxic zones on both the denitrification capacity and the concept of available nitrate is explained in more detail. the latest developments on the causes and solution to sludge bulking and scum formation to show the rapid developments of innovative nitrogen removal and sludge separation problems the anaerobic pre-treatment section is completely rewritten based on the experiences obtained from an extensive review of large full-scale UASB based sewage treatment plants a new section on industrial anaerobic wastewater treatment three new appendices have been added. These deal with the calibration of the denitrification model, empirical design guidelines for final settler design (STORA/STOWA and ATV) and with the potential for development of denitrification in the final settler. A new chapter on moving bed biofilm reactors Handbook of Biological Wastewater Treatment: Second Edition is written for post graduate students and engineers in consulting firms and environmental protection agencies. It is an invaluable resource for everybody working in the field of wastewater treatment. Lecturer support material is available when adopted for university courses. This includes course material for the first 7 modules in the form of PDF printouts and an exercise file with questions and answers and a symbol list. Authors: Prof. dr. ir. A.C. van Haandel, Federal University of Campina Grande - Brazil and Ir. J.G.M. van der Lubbe, Biothane Systems International - Veolia, The Netherlands
Download or read book Biological Nutrient Removal BNR Operation in Wastewater Treatment Plants written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nutrient Management in Wastewater Treatment Processes and Recycle Streams written by Jan A. Oleszkiewicz and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biological Nutrients Removal in the Anaerobic Anoxic Oxic Wastewater Treatment Process written by Changyong Wu and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anaerobic-anoxic-oxic (A2/O) is one of the most widely used processes in municipal wastewater treatment plants for simultaneous biological nitrogen and phosphorus removal. The A2/O process has many advantages, such as simple configuration and short hydraulic retention time (HRT), etc. In addition, it is easy to operate. Therefore, A2/O will be continuously chosen as the main option in all kinds of newly designed and built wastewater treatment plants. Though the A2/O process has been used widely, it has some inherent contradictions which are difficult to overcome. For example, the contradiction between substrate competition and SRT makes the high nitrogen and phosphorus removal unable to be achieved simultaneously. As a result, the removal efficiency of the system cannot be further improved. In the past 10 years in China, the wastewater quality very obviously changed with the improvement of living conditions. At present, municipal wastewater with a low C/N ratio is rather common in most countries in the world. The lack of a carbon source will make the inherent contradictions of the A2/O process becomes serious. Therefore, the conventional design parameters of the A2/O process are needed to adjust or the configuration of the A2/O process should change to fit the change of the wastewater quality. According to this, this book systematically describes how to improve the nitrogen and phosphorus removal efficiency of municipal wastewater with low C/N ratio, and effectively utilize the carbon resource in the influent of wastewater. This publication is useful for students, researchers and engineers whose major focus is municipal and the environment"--
Download or read book Research Needs for Nutrient Removal from Wastewater written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wastewater purification treatment; Nutrient removal; Wetlands; Residuals management; Mathematical modelling.
Download or read book Process Improvements in Biological Nutrient Removal Systems for Better Wastewater Treatment Performance written by Shengnan Xu and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Process improvements for better wastewater treatment performance are necessary with stringent discharge requirements. The main objective of this research is to develop new wastewater treatment technologies for improved nutrient removal and the degradation of recalcitrant organic nitrogen compounds. In this research, a reverse A2 /O system demonstrated better phosphorus removal efficiency than the regular A2 /O system by inverting the sequence of anaerobic and anoxic zones. Placing an anoxic stage before the anaerobic stage in the reverse A2 /O process resulted in a lower oxidation-reduction potential in the anaerobic zone, which contributed to higher P uptake by bacteria under subsequent aerobic respiration. With the development of emerging environmental nanotechnology, the effectiveness of nano zero-valent iron (NZVI) in nutrient removal was also determined under anaerobic, anoxic and aerobic conditions. The highest P removal efficiency (95% at the initial P concentration of 10 mg/L) by NZVI was observed under anoxic abiotic conditions. Furthermore, new applications of NZVI as an antiseptic/antimicrobial material were extended to sludge bulking control. In two Modified Ludzack-Ettinger (MLE) activated sludge treatment systems, a single dose of NZVI at the final concentration of 100 mg Fe/L in the mixed liquor reduced the number of filamentous bacteria Type 021N by 2-3 log units (a reduction of 99.9 and 96.7% in MLE tank #1 and #2, respectively). Additional benefits of the use of NZVI such as improved P removal was also determined. The side effect of the use of NZVI depended on sludge bulking conditions and biomass concentration. In the last part of this dissertation, process improvements to remove recalcitrant organic N compounds such as melamine were evaluated. Melamine is a nitrogen-rich (67% nitrogen by mass) heterocyclic aromatic compound that could significantly increase effluent total nitrogen concentrations. The degradation of melamine and its impact on activated sludge operation in conventional activated sludge (CAS) systems and MBRs with high biomass concentrations were compared. Melamine was dosed continuously in CAS and MBR systems at an influent concentration of 3 mg/L for about 100 days. Even after such a long period of sludge adaptation, melamine appeared not to be easily biodegradable in any of the CAS and MBR systems indicating that selective enrichment of special microbes (melamine degradation specialists) and the special enzymes responsible for melamine degradation cannot be induced through acclimation. However, a significant reduction in toxicity of melamine to the activated sludge was observed in MBR systems, demonstrating the significance of MBR operation at high sludge concentrations.
Download or read book Biological Nutrient Removal for Municipal Wastewater written by Ted Adamus and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
