In order to confine the aqua-eutrophication problem arising from phosphorus pollution, many municipal wastewater treatment plants have to improve their executive drainage standard for total phosphorus (TP). In this study, a municipal wastewater treatment plant employing modified Carrousel oxidation ditch as main biological treatment unit was selected as a representative case. Technical necessit...

in order to evaluate the effects of organic fertilizer complements application (aminol forte, fosnutren and kadostim) on grain yield, milling properties and nitrogen use efficiency of two rice (oryza sativa l.) cultivars, a field experiment in factorial layout and a randomized complete block design with 10 treatments and 3 replications was conducted at rice research institute of iran in 2009. t...

Objective: To assess the performance of SBR to treat three different types of wastewater from domestic, hospital, slaughterhouse and investigate the kinetic rates of active biomass. Mass balance calculation of COD, TKN and TP was further performed to explain the mechanisms of the biological nutrient removals processed in the SBR system. The measured kinetic rates were in turn used to evaluate t...

The objective of this research was to interrogate and develop a better understanding for a process to achieve post-anoxic denitrification without exogenous carbon augmentation within enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR). Sequencing batch reactors fed real wastewater and seeded with mixed microbial consortia were operated under variable anaerobic-aerobic-anoxic and organic carbon loadin...

Replenishing nutrients through organic sources is essential to maintain the soil health and sustainability in Eastern Himalayan Region, India which is organic by default. Keeping this in mind an experiment was laid out on randomized block design with six treatments viz., T1: Vermicompost (VC; 2.5 Mg ha-1), T2: Poultry manure (PM; 1.25 Mg ha-1), T3: Swine manure (SM; 3.0 Mg ha-1), T4: Cow du...

Waste streams such as municipal wastewater and animal manure contain organic materials and nutrients that can be converted and recovered for bioenergy and renewable fertilizer production. In the first part of this thesis, the anaerobic co-digestion of dairy manure with kitchen waste and chicken fat was studied for the purpose of increasing biogas production. The methane yields of co-digestion s...