Biological phosphorus removal (BPR) techniques offer a number of advantages over chemical addition, including enhanced treatment, reduced energy consumption, and reduced sludge production. A rapid, low-cost method for determining the feasibility of biological phosphorus removal should allow these techniques to be more widely used. A simple test is proposed to determine the amount of phosphorus ...

In a previous work, a hybrid system consisting of an advanced oxidation process (AOP) named Photo-Fenton (Ph-F) and a fixed bed biological treatment operating as a sequencing batch biofilm reactor (SBBR) was started-up and optimized to treat 200 mg ·L of 4-chlorophenol (4-CP) as a model compound. In this work, studies of reactor stability and control as well as microbial population determinatio...

Simultaneous nitrification and denitrification (SND) under low dissolved oxygen (DO) and anaerobic/aerobic(anoxic) enhanced phosphorus removal (EBPR) are two processes that can significantly reduce the energy and carbon required for nutrient removal. The combination of the two processes is expected to achieve biological nutrient removal with minimal requirement of oxygen and carbon. In this stu...

In this study; variation of effluent BOD5’s (Se) with reaction time (tr) in Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) unit for textile industry wastewater treatment plant and effective parameters on this variation have been researched. Determination of appropriate reaction time (tr) is an important value for design and operation of activated sludge unit. An appropriate kinetic equation for Sequencing Batc...

The anaerobic digestion of cow dung was investigated for 30days in a laboratory scale batch reactor. Totally nine bacterial strains were isolated from cow dung slurry. The bacterial isolates were preliminarily examined by morphological characteristics and they were further confirmed by 16S rRNA sequencing and analyzed through BLAST. Microbial dynamics showed that hydrolytic bacterial population...

industries in developing countries add new production lines producing altogether different waste stream. this newer waste invariably finds its way to existing anaerobic treatment system causing gradual/sudden change in feed substrates affecting its steady performances. this study investigates steady response of anaerobic reactors subjected to sudden change in feed substrate types, assesses its ...

Due to slow time variation, variable run length and nonlinearity of sequencing batch reactor (SBR) wastewater treatment batch process, a multivariate statistical MPCA model based on double moving window along the time×variable axis and batch-axis is used for online monitoring the progress of sequencing batch reactor. Moving window MPCA along the time×variable axis can copy seamlessly with varia...

BACKGROUND Two hybrid biofilm reactors, an integrated fixed-film activated sludge–sequencing batch reactor (IFAS-SBR) and a SBR with mixture of sludge granules, were used to reach enhanced nitrogen removal based on the anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) process under intermittent aeration. RESULTS IFAS-SBR reached more stable performance after rapid start-up period 25 days, it showed reliab...

Biological hydrogen production by anaerobic bacterium, Rhodospirillum rubrum was studied in batch and continuous bioreactors using synthesis gas (CO) as substrate. The systems were operated at ambient temperature and pressure. Correlations available in the literature were used to estimate the gas-liquid mass transfer coefficients (KLa) in batch reactor. Based on experimental results for the con...