Phosphorus Balance: Field Studies of Two Sewage Treatment Plants

1971 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-114
Author(s):  
J.E. Radley ◽  
G.W. Heinke
Keyword(s):  
Biological Treatment ◽  
Sewage Treatment ◽  
Sewage Treatment Plant ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Phosphorus Concentration ◽  
Flow Measurements ◽  
Analytical Technique ◽  
Unit Operations

Abstract Removal of phosphates from wastewater will become an important requirement in the near future in order to arrest the eutrophication of our surface water supplies. Present day treatment plants are inefficient in removing phosphates. Additions of new and deletions or changes in existing processes will be required. Knowledge of the concentration and type of phosphorus compound in all streams of a conventional biological treatment plant will be required to make effective and economical changes. This work attempts a mass balance on phosphorus on unit operations of two activated sludge plants: The North Toronto Sewage Treatment Plant and the Penetanguishene Sewage Treatment Plant. Preliminary field studies were carried out over several weeks to establish background information on phosphorus concentration and type at each plant. From this information, the number of sampling streams, timing of sampling, and accuracy and precision of phosphate and flow measurements for short, in-depth, phosphorus studies on each plant was made. Two 2–3 day surveys were made at each plant. The data are presented in the form of phosphorus mass balances on important unit operations as well as on the entire plant. Balances were found to be within the combined experimental error of sampling, analytical technique, and flow measurement. Major phosphate streams in decreasing order are the return sludge, raw influent, primary sludge and digestor supernatant. Present phosphorus reduction is about 20–30%, as expected for biological treatment. The possible effect of operational changes and additions of phosphorus removal process is discussed.

Control of Heavy Metals and Organochlorines Using the Oil from Sludge Process

1990 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 249-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. R. Bridle ◽  
I. Hammerton ◽  
C. K. Hertle
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Heavy Metal ◽  
Sewage Treatment ◽  
Sewage Treatment Plant ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Sludge Dewatering ◽  
Water Board ◽  
Unit Operations ◽  
Set Up

A four month pilot plant program, evaluating all unit operations comprising an integrated Oil from Sludge (OFS) plant has been successfully completed for the Sydney Water Board. The unit operations of sludge dewatering, drying and conversion to oil in the patented OFS reactor system were set up at the Malabar Sewage Treatment Plant in Sydney. Pilot testing of the char combustor was conducted off site. Extensive heavy metal and organochlorine monitoring across each unit operation has revealed the following information. There is no loss of contaminants across the dewatering and drying operations. With the exception of arsenic and mercury, all heavy metals fed to the OFS reactor are retained in the char. Greater than 75% of PCB's and 85% of HCB present in sludge are destroyed in the OFS reactor. Greater than 99.7% of the heavy metals fed to the fluid bed combustor are retained in the ash (with exception of mercury, which reported 3% in the flue gas). The FBC ash is classified non-hazardous, using the Toxic Characteristic Leaching Procedure.No organochlorines were detected in the dryer or FBC off-gases. The OFS technology offers decoupling of heavy metal and organochlorine control mechanisms, thus allowing each to be optimally controlled.

scholarly journals Occurrence and Sources of Synthetic Musk Fragrances in the Sewage Treatment Plants and the Han River in Seoul, Korea

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ju-Hee Hong ◽  
Jun-Yeon Lee ◽  
Hyun-Ju Ha ◽  
Jin-Hyo Lee ◽  
Seok-Ryul Oh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Biological Treatment ◽  
Treatment Process ◽  
Sewage Treatment ◽  
Sewage Treatment Plant ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Synthetic Musk ◽  
Han River ◽  
Treatment Processes ◽  
Musk Fragrances ◽  
Receiving Water

Levels of synthetic musk fragrances (SMFs) and various personal care products (PCPs) were measured in the Han River and its tributaries in Seoul, Korea. The most abundant SMF in all river and PCP samples was 4,6,6,7,8,8-hexamethyl-1,3,4,7-tetrahydrocyclopenta[g]isochromene (HHCB), followed by 1-(3,5,5,6,8,8-hexamethyl-6,7-dihydronaphthalen-2-yl)ethanone (AHTN), musk ketone (MK), and 1,1,2,3,3-pentamethyl-2,5,6,7-tetrahydroinden-4-one (DPMI). There was a significant correlation between the SMF concentration in the PCPs and the Han River samples. Moving from upstream to downstream in the Han River, the median SMF concentration was 6.756, 2.945, 0.304, and 0.141 μg/L in the sewage treatment plant (STP) influent, effluent, tributaries, and mainstream, respectively, implying that effective SMF removal was achieved during the sewage treatment process, followed by dilution in the receiving water. Four STPs using advanced biological treatment processes had removal efficiencies of 55.8%, 50.6%, 43.3% for HHCB, AHTN, and MK, respectively. The highest SMF concentrations in the tributaries were observed at locations close to the STPs. Our study confirmed that the main source of SMFs in the receiving water were sewage effluent containing untreated SMFs, which are largely originated from household PCPs, especially hair care products (e.g., shampoo) and perfumes.

Decentralisation of the Emscher Sewerage System - Planning of the Bottrop Biological Sewage Treatment Plant

1992 ◽  
Vol 25 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 51-58
Author(s):  
B. Teichgräber
Keyword(s):  
Biological Treatment ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Sewage Treatment ◽  
Sewage Treatment Plant ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Drainage System ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
System Planning ◽  
Sewerage System ◽  
Activated Sludge System

The Emschergenossenschaft plans to improve the Emscher drainage system by separating sewage and clean water. 6 or 7 subcatchment areas will be created and served by separate wastewater treatment plants. The Bottrop WWTP has been planned for 1.3 million population equivalents. It is scheduled to start operation in 1995 and its costs are estimated as totalling 820 million DM in total. Biological treatment will be effected by a low-loaded, single-stage activated sludge system with cascade denitrification and modified UCT process.

SCREENING OF CHEMICAL SPILL RISKS TO MUNICIPAL SEWAGE TREA TMENT PLANTS

1994 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 25-34
Author(s):  
M. Ettala ◽  
E. Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Sewage Treatment ◽  
Screening Method ◽  
Sewage Treatment Plant ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Carbonaceous Material ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Municipal Sewage

Seven operational mishaps were specified on the basis of a questionnaire on wastewater treatment plants, some of them large. In this study a process was developed for screening the chemical spill risks to municipal biological sewage treatment plant. Data on wastewater treatment processes, potential spill sources and chemical properties were combined to determine the threshold chemical quantities which may inhibit the removal of carbonaceous material, prevent nitrification and methanogenesis, cause sludge contamination or lead to the aeration capacity being exceeded. Two sewage treatment plants and eleven industrial sites were chosen for field studies. The influence of spill duration and maintenance activities on threshold quantities are discussed. A field survey lasting 1-2 hours at each site was long enough for the most relevant data to be obtained when the screening method developed was applied. Several chemical spill risks to the plants studied were specified. In addition, cases were identified in which failure of the pretreatment facilities for industrial wastewaters could cause severe mishaps at a biological wastewater treatment plant.

Biological Waste Water Rehabilitation of Sugar Factories by Algocoenosis Correction

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.V. Kul’nev ◽  
V.I. Stupin ◽  
A.A. Borzenkov
Keyword(s):  
Waste Water ◽  
Biological Treatment ◽  
Sewage Treatment ◽  
Sewage Treatment Plant ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Domestic Sewage ◽  
Total Water ◽  
Sewage Treatment Plants ◽  
Total Water Consumption

The article deals with theoretical and practical aspects of biological waste water rehabilitation of sugar factories by algocoenosis correction. This technology allows you to transfer domestic sewage treatment plant of filtration mode fields in the biological treatment ponds mode, significantly reducing the area of sewage treatment plants, thus improving the quality of treated waste water, which will, in turn, use them repeatedly reducing total water consumption.

Upgrading a Large Municipal Sewage Treatment Plant by a Combination of Biological and Chemical Processes

1990 ◽  
Vol 22 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 105-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. H. Hahn ◽  
E. Hoffmann ◽  
A. Kleinschmidt ◽  
R. Klute
Keyword(s):  
Biological Treatment ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Sewage Treatment ◽  
Sewage Treatment Plant ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Chemical Processes ◽  
Plant Performance ◽  
Municipal Sewage ◽  
The Past

The Standards controlling sewage treatment are continuously in development. Thus, upgrading existing plants is a frequently encountered problem. In the past this meant structural changes, mostly in terms of enlargement of existing facilities or addition of new units. More recently the possibilities of improving plant performance through chemicals addition (inducing precipitation and coagulation) with or without intensified biological treatment have been explored. Chemicals addition has become necessary in many instances due to the tightening of standards for phosphorous concentrations in the plant effluent. The present discussion is based on a case study where possibilities and limits of chemical and/or biological upgrading have been investigated. The analysis showed that neither chemical stages nor secondary biological stages alone can guarantee the effluent standards formulated by the water authorities.

Nutrient Removal in a 2-Stage Biological Sewage Treatment Plant

1992 ◽  
Vol 25 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 135-142
Author(s):  
E. Sickert
Keyword(s):  
Nutrient Removal ◽  
Combined Treatment ◽  
Sewage Treatment ◽  
Sewage Treatment Plant ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Distribution Channel ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Phosphorus Concentration ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Excess Sludge

The Dradenau sewage treatment plant consists basically of a large activated sludge plant which supplements the treatment stages of the Köhlbrandhöft plant. Although built to mainly oxidize ammonia and despite unfavourable operating conditions - the different locations of the Köhlbrandhöft and Dradenau plants - considerable amounts of nitrogen have successfully been eliminated. Denitrification takes place in the distribution channel of the Dradenau plant and in one of the biological stages of the Köhlbrandhöft plant. This stage takes over the excess sludge from the Dradenau plant resulting in nitrifying - and denitrifying - part of the nitrogen load already here. There is an average overall reduction of 70 %. Simultaneous precipitation at the Köhlbrandhöft treatment plant reduces the phosphorus concentration in the effluent of the combined treatment plants Köhlbrandhöft/Dradenau to values recently set by legal regulations (1 mgP/l).

Accounting of External Factors for Sewage Disinvasion

2018 ◽  
Vol 931 ◽  
pp. 996-1000
Author(s):  
Natalia V. Yudina ◽  
Lidiya A. Dolzhenko
Keyword(s):  
Biological Treatment ◽  
Sewage Treatment ◽  
Settling Tank ◽  
Sewage Treatment Plant ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Municipal Sewage ◽  
Helminth Eggs ◽  
Sand Trap ◽  
Treatment Facilities ◽  
Secondary Settling

The results of a survey of the background parasitic characteristics on individual structures of the municipal sewage treatment plant are given. It is established that 27% of the grids and sand trap are retained, the effectiveness of the retention in the biological treatment facilities after the secondary settling tank corresponded to 61.9%. Helminth eggs are mostly concentrated in sewage sludge, to a large extent maintaining their viability (90%). An imitating model of the process of disinvasion of sewage and sediments was developed, represented by a network diagram for sewage treatment fa-cilities. In production conditions, an experiment was performed to determine the influence of exter-nal factors on the efficiency of dehelmintization by the plant reagent.

Lamella separators in the upgrading of a large urban sewage treatment plant

2004 ◽  
Vol 50 (7) ◽  
pp. 205-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Kolisch ◽  
G. Schirmer
Keyword(s):  
Biological Treatment ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Sewage Treatment ◽  
Sewage Treatment Plant ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Separation Performance ◽  
Urban Sewage ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Solids Concentration ◽  
Preliminary Separation

Wupperverband is using lamella separators for the upgrading of its Kohlfurth sewage treatment plant that is currently in progress. The lamellae positioned at the outlet of the biological treatment stage already remove part of the biomass in the activation basin and prevent it from reaching the final clarification stage. This preliminary separation system reduces solids concentration in the biological treatment system without negative impact on final clarification and therefore also lowers the basin capacity needed, with positive effects on costs. This article gives an overview of the separation performance achieved.

Nutrient Removal in a Short Retention Time Sewage Treatment Plant

1991 ◽  
Vol 24 (10) ◽  
pp. 327-328
Author(s):  
Ingemar Karlsson
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Chemical Treatment ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Biological Treatment ◽  
Sewage Treatment ◽  
Sewage Treatment Plant ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Chemical Precipitation ◽  
Anaerobic Treatment ◽  
Precipitation Process

Chemical treatment of sewage water is today often considered as a method for phosphorus reduction and used in combination with biological treatment. The experience in Scandinavia, however, shows that chemical treatment alone gives beside a good phosphorus removal also a high BOD reduction. Due to the very low investment cost for such a process it has been adapted in Scandinavia as an alternative to biological treatment. Where the demand is for greater sewage treatment the most feasible method is to complement the chemical precipitation process with a compact biological treatment. In Sweden the dominating post (and also the simultaneous) precipitation process has in many plants been replaced by a chemical pre-treatment process, because with pre-precipitation most of the organic matter is coagulated and extracted already in the primary clarifier. The energy demand in the biological process will decrease. The organic matter in the sludge will increase, which in an anaerobic digester means more digester gas. The unloading pre-precipitation effect can also give advantages for nitrification. The important BOD/TKN ratio is decreased. It is possible to build up a high sludge age and to upgrade a plant without tank expansion to a nitrifying plant. Pre-precipitation is normally not influencing the readily degradable BOD, which is about 25% of the total BOD and therefore a perfect electron donor for pre-denitri-fication is still available. The pre-precipitated sludge contains 75% of the organic matter in the sewage and can by hydrolysis be converted to readily degradable organic matter, which presents a valuable carbon source for the denitrification process. The hydrolysation process can be performed by, for instance, anaerobic treatment or heat treatment. This paper will review experiences from full-scale applications as well as pilot plant and laboratory studies.

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