Concentration of active sludge in the aeration reactors
The purpose of the paper was to study the dehydrogenase activity (DHA) of activated sludge in aeration tank. The article describes a change in enzyme activity, (dehydrogenase activity of sludge-DHA) of activated sludge while various time of aeration as well as various dose in sludge of aeration tank. Assessment changes enzyme activity were done on two indicators - on DHAor. (original dehydrogenase activity of sludge) and DHAH2O (dehydrogenase sludge activity with tap water). In the first case - DHA with the actual substrate, in the second case - DHA with poorly concentrated substrate. The work was performed on a pilot installation consisting of four models of aeration tanks blocked with sedimentation tanks, on a real city waste water. Working doses of sludge in biological wastewater treatment process was ranged from 2 to 6 g/l, time of aeration in aeration tanks changed from 3.5. up to 0.8 hours. Experimental studies have shown that regardless of the size of working sludge dose in aeration tank character of changes DHA or and DHAH2O is identical.