Activated Sludge and Other Aerobic Suspended Culture Processes

Moretti, Charles; Das, Dipesh; Kistner, Brian T.; Gullicks, Harvey; Hung, Yung‐Tse

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“…The proper functioning of a wastewater treatment plant starts already at the stage of developing a technological design, because the mistakes made by the designer at this stage will result in malfunctions during the whole period of its operation (Nowobilska-Majewska and Bugajski 2020, Karamus 2018, Moretti 2011). After the construction or modernization of a wastewater treatment plant, its long-term operation is often a complex problem for the operator, because the variability of the quantity and quality of the inflowing wastewater over time may determine the interference of mechanical and biological treatment processes (Trikoilidou et al 2016, Mailler et al 2016, Dymaczewski et al 2011).…”

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The Interdependence of Organic and Biogenic Pollutants Concentrations in the Aspect of their Susceptibility to Biodegradation – A Case Study

Bugajski¹,

Pawelek²,

Jóźwiakowska³

2021

J. Ecol. Eng.

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The aim of the research was to determine, the interdependence between COD and such parameters as: BOD 5 , TN and TP in raw wastewater and in mechanically treated wastewater using statistical methods, which would allow estimating the values of these parameters based on COD. Moreover, the aim of the study was to determine the susceptibility of wastewater before and after mechanical treatment to decomposition of organic and biogenic pollutants. The research was conducted from 2006 to 2015 in a collective wastewater treatment plant in Nowy Sącz. During the research period, 120 samples of raw and mechanically treated wastewater were collected and analyzed once a month. In the analytical part of the research, the quality of sewage was characterized, the strength of correlation of the examined indicators was determined and the susceptibility of sewage to biological decomposition was assessed. On the basis of the analysis it was found that knowing the value of the COD parameter it is possible to determine the values of the other indicators, i.e. BOD 5 , TN and TP. Moreover, it was shown that wastewater is largely susceptible to the biological decomposition of pollutants, and during the period when the inflow of sewage with reduced susceptibility occurs, the wastewater with high content of organic carbon should be dosed.

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The Interdependence of Organic and Biogenic Pollutants Concentrations in the Aspect of their Susceptibility to Biodegradation – A Case Study

Bugajski¹,

Pawelek²,

Jóźwiakowska³

2021

J. Ecol. Eng.

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“…The basis of wastewater treatment technologies is the conventional activated sludge process, whose efficiency is strongly affected by the composition of the microbial community forming in the activated sludge flocks [3]. Following the biodegradation processes the secondary sedimentation is also highly affected by the bacterial culture forming activated sludge flocks.…”

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PVA-PAA hydrogel micro-carrier for the improvement of phase separation efficiency of biomass in wastewater treatment

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Phase separation process is influenced by operational factors that can hardly be controlled. This paper demonstrates the results of a series of experiments aiming to solve these problems using polyvinyl-alcohol - poly-acrylic acid copolymer hydrogel micro-carrier for the adherence of microorganisms to achieve better settling properties of the biomass. The nitrification process was examined using hydrogel micro-carriers and conventional activated sludge flocks. The sedimentation properties of the two systems were compared indifferent conditions. Results show that the sedimentation properties of the immobilized system were more favorable than activated sludge flocks.

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“…[5][6][7] These models have been extended to model processes in membrane bioreactors. [8,9] Recent developments in the mathematical modelling of the activated sludge process are reviewed in the works of Hauduc et al and Moretti et al [10,11] However, the 'basic model' remains attractive because it is easy to calibrate.…”

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Analysis of an activated sludge model in which dead biomass is recycled into slowly biodegradable particulate substrate

Alharbi

Nelson

Worthy

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Asia-Pacific J Chem Eng

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A significant drawback of the activated sludge process is the production of excess 'sludge'; the disposal of which can account for 50-60% of the running costs of a wastewater treatment plant. We investigate a model for the activated sludge process in which the influent contains a mixture of soluble and slowly biodegradable particulate substrate. Within the bioreactor, the particulate substrate is hydrolyzed to form soluble substrate. In turn, these are used for growth by the biomass. Biomass decay produces slowly biodegradable substrate and non-biodegradable particulates. Steady-state analysis is used to investigate how the amount of sludge formed depends upon the residence time and the use of a settling unit. We show that when the steady-state sludge content is plotted as a function of the residence time that there are three generic response diagrams. The value of the effective recycle parameter determines which type of response diagram is observed. If this parameter is greater than a critical value, then the sludge content is guaranteed to be greater than a target value. The dependence of this critical value upon the chemical oxygen demand in the feed and how the chemical oxygen demand is partitioned between its constitutive components is investigated. (2) School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Science, UNSW at ADFA, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia Disciplines Engineering | Science and Technology StudiesNovember 15, 2014 AbstractThe activated sludge process is one of the major processes used in the biological treatment of wastewater.A significant drawback of this process is the production of excess sludge, the disposal of which can account for 50-60% of the running costs of a plant.We investigate a model for the activated sludge process in which the influent contains a mixture of soluble and slowly biodegradable particulate substrate. Within the bioreactor the biodegradable particulate substrate is hydrolyzed to form soluble substrate. In turn these are used for growth by the biomass. Biomass decay produces slowly biodegradable substrate in addition to non-biodegradable particulates.We use steady-state analysis to investigate how the amount of sludge formed depends upon the residence time and the use of a settling unit. We show that when the steady-state sludge content is plotted as a function of the residence time that there are three generic response diagrams, depending upon the value of the effective recycle parameter. We find that if the effective recycle parameter is higher than a critical value then sludge content is guaranteed to be greater than a target value. We investigate how this critical value depends upon the chemical oxygen demand in the feed and how the chemical oxygen demand is partitioned between its constitutive components.

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Activated Sludge and Other Aerobic Suspended Culture Processes

Cited by 4 publications

References 10 publications

The Interdependence of Organic and Biogenic Pollutants Concentrations in the Aspect of their Susceptibility to Biodegradation – A Case Study

The Interdependence of Organic and Biogenic Pollutants Concentrations in the Aspect of their Susceptibility to Biodegradation – A Case Study

PVA-PAA hydrogel micro-carrier for the improvement of phase separation efficiency of biomass in wastewater treatment

Analysis of an activated sludge model in which dead biomass is recycled into slowly biodegradable particulate substrate

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