Biogas yield of mixtures of cattle slurry and cheese whey, rates of production of methane, removal efficiencies of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and biological oxygen demand (BOD) from the mixtures were investigated at 35°C. Four feed regimens (by volume) were studied. Stable biogas production of 621 l/kg Volatile Solids at an Hydraulic Retention Time of 42 days in a mixture containing 50% slurr...

Irrelevant inputs can cause deterioration of the network performance. This paper aims to implement features selection for water quality prediction model as the neural network generalization may be improved when the number of measured variables is reduced. Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) was introduced as a feature selection method, where it choose a subset of input variables by eliminat...

background: the measurement data regarding the influent and effluent of wastewater treatment plant (wwtp) provides a general overview, demonstrating an overall performance of wwtp. nevertheless, these data do not provide the suitable operational information for the optimization of individual units involved in a wwtp. a full-scale evolution of wwtp was carried out in this study via a reconciled ...

The wet air oxidation of phenol over a commercial active carbon catalyst was studied in a trickle bed reactor (TBR) in the temperature and oxygen partial pressure ranges of 120–160 ◦C and 0.1–0.2 MPa, respectively. The performance of the active carbon was compared in terms of phenol and COD destruction. The weight change of active carbon due to reaction was also measured. Finally, oxic phenol a...

Anaerobic fluidized membrane bioreactors (AFMBRs) have been mainly developed as a post-treatment process to produce high quality effluent with very low energy consumption. The performance of an AFMBR was examined using the effluent from a microbial fuel cell (MFC) treating domestic wastewater, as a function of AFMBR hydraulic retention times (HRTs) and organic matter loading rates. The MFC-AFMB...

The aim of the chapter is to introduce a new technology using the flow-divided electrodes for sewage reclamation based on redox and concentrating ions. This creative system can be used directly for sewage treatment without the need for costly ion-exchange membranes and other chemical reagents. Under experimental condi‐ tions, the removal percentage of TDS (total dissolved salts) is 83 %and the ...

Characterization and evaluation of a biological submerged filter was carried out on a full-scale pilot plant performing removal of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and total nitrogen (TN) from pre-treated urban wastewater. The average influent values of BOD5, chemical oxygen demand (COD) and TN were 370, 1,015 and 60 mg/L, respectively. The pilot plant produced good discharge quality during stea...

paper mills are characterized as polluting industries, these use pulping process for papermanufacturing, due to which toxic chemicals released into environment. therefore, the biological oxygendemand (bod), chemical oxygen demand (cod) of the emanating stream is high and dissolved oxygen (do) is low. to resolve this predicament, two dominant bacteria bacillus subtilis and micrococcus luteus, an...