Short-Term Effects of Wastewater Biodegradability on Biological Phosphorus Removal

Response of a sludge-minimizing lab-scale BNR reactor when the operation is changed to real primary effluent from synthetic wastewater

“…The concentration of polymer accumulation depends upon the amount of rbCOD (Vollertsen et al, 2006) and consequently, the P release also decreased over time. Similar correlation between rbCOD and Prelease has been reported previously (Martinez et al, 2001). Both systems achieved good phosphorus removal as evident from the COD/P ratio of 100, which agrees with other reports (Lee et al, 1997) and the low COD/P ratio may positively affect the overall phosphorus removal efficiency.…”