Membrane enhanced primary treatment (MEPT) process : a novel low-cost, space-saving process for upgrading chemically enhanced primary treatment (CEPT) of saline sewage towards biological treatment

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Sheung Ka Leung
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 3917-3926

A techno-economic analysis was performed to investigate wastewater treatment feasibility using chemically enhanced primary treatment (CEPT) compared to conventional primary treatment (PT). An experimental study was conducted to investigate the performance of CEPT at optimum conditions, and experimental results were used to feed the techno-economical study with required input data. The wastewater treatment was focused on reducing BOD5, COD, and TSS. The comparison between CEPT and PT was concerned with removal efficiency and process economics. CEPT process has shown better efficiency compared to PT process. The experimental work indicated that ferric chloride is the optimum coagulant agent since it is highly efficient and available at a low cost. The optimum coagulant experimental results showed that the turbidity removal efficiency was 82%, COD removal 84%, BOD removal 68.1%, and SS removal 85%. The techno-economic study was performed to investigate the feasibility of CEPT. The techno-economic evaluation indicated that CEPT is a cost-effective and technically viable process for wastewater treatment. The techno-economic evaluation indicated that CEPT is a cost-effective and technically viable process for wastewater treatment as the operating cost can be reduced by 66% compared to PT.


1995 ◽  
Vol 32 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 75-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. D. Andreadakis ◽  
G. H. Kristensen ◽  
A. Papadopoulos ◽  
C. Oikonomopoulos

The wastewater from the city of Thessaloniki is discharged without treatment to the nearby inner part of the Thessaloniki Gulf. The existing, since 1989, treatment plant offers only primary treatment and did not operate since the expected effluent quality is not suitable for safe disposal to the available recipients. Upgrading of the plant for advanced biological treatment, including seasonal nitrogen removal, is due from 1995. In the mean time, after minor modifications completed in February 1992, the existing plant was put into operation as a two-stage chemical-biological treatment plant for 40 000 m3 d−1, which corresponds to about 35% of the total sewage flow. The operational results obtained during the two years operation period are presented and evaluated. All sewage and sludge treatment units of the plant perform better than expected, with the exception of the poor sludge settling characteristics, due to severe and persistent bulking caused by excessive growth of filamentous microorganisms, particularly M. Parvicella. Effective control of the bulking problem could lead to more cost-effective operation and increased influent flows.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (18) ◽  
pp. 155-163
Author(s):  
Tulip Chakraborty ◽  
Scott Smith ◽  
Domenico Santoro ◽  
John Walton ◽  
Madhumita B Ray ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 75 (11) ◽  
pp. 2598-2606 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Rusten ◽  
S. S. Rathnaweera ◽  
E. Rismyhr ◽  
A. K. Sahu ◽  
J. Ntiako

Fine mesh rotating belt sieves (RBS) offer a very compact solution for removal of particles from wastewater. This paper shows examples from pilot-scale testing of primary treatment, chemically enhanced primary treatment (CEPT) and secondary solids separation of biofilm solids from moving bed biofilm reactors (MBBRs). Primary treatment using a 350 microns belt showed more than 40% removal of total suspended solids (TSS) and 30% removal of chemical oxygen demand (COD) at sieve rates as high as 160 m³/m²-h. Maximum sieve rate tested was 288 m³/m²-h and maximum particle load was 80 kg TSS/m²-h. When the filter mat on the belt increased from 10 to 55 g TSS/m², the removal efficiency for TSS increased from about 35 to 60%. CEPT is a simple and effective way of increasing the removal efficiency of RBS. Adding about 1 mg/L of cationic polymer and about 2 min of flocculation time, the removal of TSS typically increased from 40–50% without polymer to 60–70% with polymer. Using coagulation and flocculation ahead of the RBS, separation of biofilm solids was successful. Removal efficiencies of 90% TSS, 83% total P and 84% total COD were achieved with a 90 microns belt at a sieve rate of 41 m³/m²-h.


2001 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Tornes

Norway is a leading country on wastewater treatment comprising chemical precipitation processes. This is because Norwegian effluent standards to the North Sea have traditionally focused on phosphorus removal. In most cases, chemical treatment therefore has been considered to give lower investment and operating costs than biological treatment. Norwegian wastewater policy and management is based on the EU guidelines resulting from the EEA (European Economic Area) Agreement. According to the 1991 Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive, this will in most cases require secondary treatment. However, primary treatment can be accepted for plants larger than 10,000 PT with effluents to less sensitive coastal areas, if no negative environmental impacts can be proved. The main objective of the Regional Water, Sewerage and Waste Company (IVAR) is to comply with the prevailing effluent limits at lowest possible cost. During the past four years, IVAR has therefore undertaken comprehensive optimising of the precipitation process including full-scale experiments with different coagulant dosing control systems and different types of coagulants. IVAR also accomplished a feasibility study of introducing biological treatment as an alternative to chemical treatment. Under the prevailing frame conditions of discharge requirements and sludge deposit costs, it is not economically feasible to change to organic coagulants or biological treatment. This conclusion might have to be altered later resulting from the implementation of new EU regulations and increasing sludge deposit costs. This paper presents results from full-scale experiments, extracts from the feasibility study and a comparison of costs. Furthermore, the practical consequences of implementing the EU-guidelines are discussed.


2015 ◽  
Vol 57 (16) ◽  
pp. 7280-7286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Bilal Asif ◽  
Nadeem Majeed ◽  
Sidra Iftekhar ◽  
Rasikh Habib ◽  
Sadia Fida ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 464 ◽  
pp. 189-193
Author(s):  
Jun Hong Luo ◽  
Chong Hao Huang ◽  
Yong Zhang

Chemically enhanced primary treatment (CEPT) process have advantages of low pollution load and low costs, it can greatly improve the removal efficiency of organic matter by primary treatment , so the process has been studied widely and intensively. In this thesis, the mechanism, coagulant type, dosage and precipitation time were studied.


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