Analysis of the bacterial community in the biological phosphorus removal system is propitious to study the phosphorusremoval mechanism. The activated sludge was acclimated through a repeated anaerobic-aerobic process with glucose as carbon source for 2 months and a stable EBPR was established in an SBR. Total phosphate of the wastewater decreased by 12.43 mg·l-1 after 4 h aerobic treatment whil...

Various half-scale and lab-scale investigations have already shown that the disintegration of excess sludge is a possible pre-treatment to optimise anaerobic digestion. To verify these results, different methods of disintegration were investigated at a full-scale plant. Two stirred ball mills, a plant for oxidation with ozone, a lysate centrifuge and an ultrasonic homogeniser were applied. A po...

Improving anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge through pretreatment techniques is a suitable solution for better sludge management. In this sense, modeling may present itself as an important tool to assess and predict process performance and pretreatment effects. In this study, the feasibility of using biochemical methane potential (BMP) tests data for calibrating the Anaerobic Digestion Model ...

The effects of zero-valent iron (Fe0) on the performance of a mesophilic upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor treating high-strength wastewater from the vitamin C biosynthesis industry (VCW) was investigated during a 200-day period. The results showed that the chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal efficiency, CH4 content in biogas, specific methanogenic activity of sludge, and phosphat...

The UK Water Industry currently generates approximately 800 GWh pa of electrical energy from sewage sludge, a renewable by-product from wastewater treatment. Advanced anaerobic digestion processes are beginning to improve energy yields from this resource which the industry has in abundance. These processes are being implemented across the UK and within Thames Water. However, these processes are...

An experimental study was carried to find out the degradability of black liquor of pulp and paper mill wastewater for biomethanogenesis in continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) and followed by activated sludge process (ASP). Continuous stirred tank reactor was used in present study for anaerobic digestion of black liquor, while completely mixed activated sludge system was used for aerobic dige...

A bench-scale up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor was applied to start-up the anaerobic ammonium oxidation (Anammox) process from conventional return activated sludge. The reactor was operated for approximately 170 days and was fed synthetic wastewater containing mainly nitrite ) (NO2 − and ammonium ) (NH 4 + as main substrates. After 106 days of operation, the first evidence of Ana...

Deammonification is known as an efficient and resource saving sidestream process option to remove the nitrogen load from sludge liquors. The transfer of the intermediate product nitrite between both syntrophic groups of organisms - aerobic and anaerobic ammonia oxidizers (AOB) - appears very sensitive to process conditions such as temperature, dissolved oxygen (DO) and operating nitrite level. ...

The paper will report about the experiences at an Austrian large wastewater treatment plant of 720,000 population equivalents, where anaerobically digested sewage sludge is further stabilised under aerobic conditions. Enhanced stabilisation of the anaerobically digested sludge was required at the plant in order to get a permit for landfill disposal of the dewatered stabilized sludge. By impleme...

The kinetics of propionate degradation, acetate splitting, and hydrogen consumption in digesting sludge were investigated in a lab-scale digester. At natural steady-state conditions, the acetate-splitting systems in well-digested sludge were about half saturated. Propionate-degrading systems were saturated to only 10 to 15%, and hydrogen removal was less than 1% of the maximum possible rate. It...