High salinity wastewater treatment

2013 ◽  
Vol 68 (6) ◽  
pp. 1400-1405 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Linarić ◽  
M. Markić ◽  
L. Sipos
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Activated Sludge ◽  
Suspended Solids ◽  
High Salinity ◽  
Electrokinetic Potential ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Volume Index ◽  
Aeration Tank ◽  
Surge Flooding ◽  
Salinity Wastewater

The shock effect, survival and ability of activated sludge to acclimatize to wastewater containing different concentrations of NaCl and Na2SO4 were investigated under laboratory conditions. To accomplish this, the potential penetration of a sewage system by seawater as a consequence of storm surge flooding was simulated. The experiments were conducted using activated sludge taken from the aeration tank of a communal wastewater treatment plant and adding different concentrations up to 40 g/L of NaCl and 4.33 g/L of Na2SO4. The effects of salinity on the activated sludge were monitored for 5 weeks based on the values of pH, dissolved oxygen, total suspended solids, volatile suspended solids, sludge volume, sludge volume index, electrokinetic potential, respirometric measurements and enzymatic activity. The addition of salt sharply reduced or completely inhibited the microbial activity in activated sludge. When salt concentrations were below 10 g/L NaCl, microorganisms were able to acclimatize in several weeks and achieve the same initial activity as in raw sludge samples. When the salt concentration was above 30 g/L NaCl, the acclimatization process was very slow or impossible.

Ten Years Experience with a Highly Loaded Activated Sludge Plant

1984 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. 649-660
Author(s):  
P Balmér ◽  
S Hallquist ◽  
M Hernebring
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Activated Sludge ◽  
Residence Time ◽  
Suspended Solids ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Volume Index ◽  
Sludge Volume Index ◽  
Solids Concentration ◽  
Cell Residence Time ◽  
Highly Loaded

The Rya wastewater treatment plant in Gothenburg, Sweden serves 640 000 population equivalents. It is an extremely highly loaded activated sludge plant without presetting with a mean cell residence time of about 0.5 days. Ten years experience proves that the plant is capable of removing about 70% of the BOD load. The effluent BOD is mainly caused by non settleable suspended solids due to the partly dispersed growth of the activated sludge. The low mean cell residence time and the high suspended solids concentration in the aeration basin influent gives an activated sludge with low viability and in mass balance studies it was determined that only 12% of the influent COD and about 40% of the BOD was oxidized by the activated sludge. The activated sludge has consistently had a very low sludge volume index and the settling basins could thus be very highly loaded. The surplus activated sludge could be thickened to solids concentrations over 6%. After dewatering the sludge was either lime treated or co-composted with bark. The plant is manned only eight hours five days a week. During unmanned time there are standby personnel. Data is presented on man power, energy and chemical use, and on costs.

Treatment of High Salinity Wastewater Using an Intermittently Aerated Membrane Bioreactor

2015 ◽  
Vol 1092-1093 ◽  
pp. 1033-1036
Author(s):  
Kang Xie ◽  
Jing Song ◽  
Si Qing Xia ◽  
Li Ping Qiu ◽  
Jia Bin Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Activated Sludge ◽  
Membrane Bioreactor ◽  
Municipal Wastewater ◽  
High Salinity ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Ammonia Nitrogen ◽  
Municipal Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Removal Efficiencies ◽  
Salinity Wastewater

In this study, high salinity wastewater was treated by an intermittently aerated membrane bioreactor (IAMBR) and the salinity loadings were set at 35g/L. The activated sludge was inoculated from the municipal wastewater treatment plant. The influent salinity level gradually increased from 0 to 35 g/L with every 5 g/L. With the salt concentration increased to 35 g/L, the performance of IAMBR was significantly affected by higher salinity. The removal efficiencies of the total organic carbon (TOC), ammonia nitrogen (NH4+-N) and total nitrogen (TN) were about 83%, 70% and 51%, respectively. It is indicated that the domestication of activated sludge from municipal wastewater treatment cannot obtain a better performance at high salinity.

Evaluating the treatment performance of a full scale Activated Sludge Plant in Islamabad, Pakistan

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. S. Fatima ◽  
S. Jamal Khan
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Activated Sludge ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plant ◽  
Suspended Solids ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Oxygen Demand ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Operational Parameter ◽  
Mixed Liquor ◽  
Treatment Performance

In this study, the performance of wastewater treatment plant located at sector I-9 Islamabad, Pakistan, was evaluated. This full scale domestic wastewater treatment plant is based on conventional activated sludge process. The parameters which were monitored regularly included total suspended solids (TSS), mixed liquor suspended solids (MLSS), mixed liquor volatile suspended solids (MLVSS), biological oxygen demand (BOD), and chemical oxygen demand (COD). It was found that the biological degradation efficiency of the plant was below the desired levels in terms of COD and BOD. Also the plant operators were not maintaining consistent sludge retention time (SRT). Abrupt discharge of MLSS through the Surplus Activated sludge (SAS) pump was the main reason for the low MLSS in the aeration tank and consequently low treatment performance. In this study the SRT was optimized based on desired MLSS concentration between 3,000–3,500 mg/L and required performance in terms of BOD, COD and TSS. This study revealed that SRT is a very important operational parameter and its knowledge and correct implementation by the plant operators should be mandatory.

scholarly journals Reliability of removal of selected pollutants in different technological solutions of household wastewater treatment plants

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał Marzec
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Activated Sludge ◽  
Suspended Solids ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Sewage Treatment ◽  
Sewage Treatment Plant ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Total Suspended Solids ◽  
Hybrid Reactor ◽  
Limit Values

AbstractThe reliability of removal of selected contaminants in three technological solutions of the household sewage treatment plants was analysed in this paper. The reliability of the sewage treatment plant with activated sludge, sprinkled biological deposit and hybrid reactor (activated sludge and immersed trickling filter) was analyzed. The analysis was performed using the Weibull method for basic indicators of impurities, BOD5, COD and total suspended solids. The technological reliability of the active sludge treatment plant was 70% for BOD5, 87% for COD and 66% for total suspended solids. In the sewage treatment plant with a biological deposit, the reliability values determined were: 30% (BOD5), 60% (COD) and 67% (total suspended solids). In a treatment plant with a hybrid reactor, 30% of the BOD5and COD limit values were exceeded, while 30% of the total suspended solids were exceeded. The reliability levels are significantly lower than the acceptable levels proposed in the literature, which means that the wastewater discharged from the analysed wastewater treatment plants often exceeds the limit values of indicators specified in currently valid in Poland Regulation of the Minister of Environment for object to 2000 population equivalent.

Estimation of suspended solids concentrations in activated sludge settling tanks

1997 ◽  
Vol 35 (8) ◽  
pp. 127-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youngchul Kim ◽  
Wesley O. Pipes ◽  
Paul-Gene Chung
Keyword(s):  
Activated Sludge ◽  
Suspended Solids ◽  
Marked Effect ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Accurate Method ◽  
Volume Index ◽  
Sludge Volume Index ◽  
Solids Concentration ◽  
Exponential Decrease ◽  
Sludge Settling

This is a report of a field study based on data from an activated sludge process in a wastewater treatment plant in Chester, Pennsylvania, USA. The objective was to develop an accurate method for estimation of the average suspended solids concentration (SSB) of the layer of sludge in the settling tanks (the “sludge blanket”). Plant operators estimated SSB by averaging the mixed liquor suspended solids (Sm) and the return sludge suspended solids (Su) concentrations. Measurement of SSB showed that averaging Sm and Su frequently overestimated SSB by a large amount. A different relationship between SSB and parameters which are normally measured for operational purposes was developed. The parameters are Su, the overflow rates and data from the sludge volume index (SVI) measurement. It was found that an increasing overflow rate will result in an exponential decrease in the ratio of SSB to Su. Also, the SVI has a marked effect on the ratio of SSB to Su and thus on the amount of suspended solids which can be stored in the settling tanks. The proposed estimation equation was found to be statistically superior to estimation by averaging the Sm and Su.

Tracking influent inorganic suspended solids through wastewater treatment plants

2006 ◽  
Vol 54 (8) ◽  
pp. 101-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.A. Ekama ◽  
M.C. Wentzel ◽  
S.W. Sötemann
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Activated Sludge ◽  
Suspended Solids ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Settling Tank ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Primary Sludge ◽  
Unit Operations ◽  
Sludge Digestion ◽  
N Removal

From an experimental and theoretical investigation of the continuity of influent inorganic suspended solids (ISS) along the links connecting the primary settling tank (PST), fully aerobic or N removal activated sludge (AS) and anaerobic and aerobic sludge digestion unit operations, it was found that the influent wastewater (fixed) ISS concentration is conserved through primary sludge anaerobic digestion, activated sludge and aerobic digestion unit operations. However, the measured ISS flux at different stages through a series of wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) unit operations is not equal to the influent ISS flux, because the ordinary heterotrophic organisms (OHO) biomass contributes to the ISS flux by differing amounts depending on the active fraction of the VSS solids at that stage.

The main wastewater treatment plant of Vienna: an example of cost effective wastewater treatment for large cities

2006 ◽  
Vol 54 (10) ◽  
pp. 79-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Wandl ◽  
H. Kroiss ◽  
K. Svardal
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Activated Sludge ◽  
Nitrogen Removal ◽  
Nutrient Removal ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Single Stage ◽  
Volume Index ◽  
Two Stage

Two-stage activated sludge plants succeed in stable treatment efficiency concerning carbon removal and nitrification with far less reactor tank volume than conventional single stage systems. In case of large treatment plants this fact is of great economic relevance. Because of the very small specific volume of these two-stage treatment plants in comparison with low loaded single-stage plants, internal cycles have to be applied to ensure sufficient nitrogen removal. Due to these internal cycles two stage activated sludge plants offer many possibilities in terms of process management which results in new process optimisation procedures as compared to conventional single-stage nutrient removal treatment plants. The proposed extension concept for the Main Treatment Plant of Vienna was validated with pilot plant investigations especially with regard to nitrogen removal where it proved to comply with the legal requirements. The operation of the treatment plant can easily be adapted to changes in temperature and sludge volume index occurring in full scale practice. Sludge retention time and aerobic volume in the second stage are controlled in order to secure sufficient nitrification capacity and to optimise nitrogen removal by means of the variation of the loading conditions for the two stages. The investigations confirmed that the specific two-stage activated sludge concept applied in Vienna is an economically advantageous alternative for large wastewater treatment plants with stringent requirements for nitrification and nutrient removal.

scholarly journals Effects of High Salinity Wastewater Discharges on Unionid Mussels in the Allegheny River, Pennsylvania

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen A. Patnode ◽  
Elizabeth Hittle ◽  
Robert M. Anderson ◽  
Lora Zimmerman ◽  
John W. Fulton
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plant ◽  
Municipal Wastewater ◽  
High Salinity ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Specific Conductance ◽  
Municipal Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Entire Study ◽  
Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant ◽  
Salinity Wastewater

Abstract We examined the effect of high salinity wastewater (brine) from oil and natural gas drilling on freshwater mussels in the Allegheny River, Pennsylvania, during 2012. Mussel cages (N = 5 per site) were deployed at two sites upstream and four sites downstream of a brine treatment facility on the Allegheny River. Each cage contained 20 juvenile northern riffleshell mussels Epioblasma torulosa rangiana). Continuous specific conductance and temperature data were recorded by water quality probes deployed at each site. To measure the amount of mixing throughout the entire study area, specific conductance surveys were completed two times during low-flow conditions along transects from bank to bank that targeted upstream (reference) reaches, a municipal wastewater treatment plant discharge upstream of the brine-facility discharge, the brine facility, and downstream reaches. Specific conductance data indicated that high specific conductance water from the brine facility (4,000–12,000 µS/cm; mean 7,846) compared to the reference reach (103–188 µS/cm; mean 151) is carried along the left descending bank of the river and that dilution of the discharge via mixing does not occur until 0.5 mi (805 m) downstream. Juvenile northern riffleshell mussel survival was severely impaired within the high specific conductance zone (2 and 34% at and downstream of the brine facility, respectively) and at the municipal wastewater treatment plant (21%) compared to background (84%). We surveyed native mussels (family Unionidae) at 10 transects: 3 upstream, 3 within, and 4 downstream of the high specific conductance zone. Unionid mussel abundance and diversity were lower for all transects within and downstream of the high conductivity zone compared to upstream. The results of this study clearly demonstrate in situ toxicity to juvenile northern riffleshell mussels, a federally endangered species, and to the native unionid mussel assemblage located downstream of a brine discharge to the Allegheny River.

scholarly journals Quick start-up of Mudanjiang wastewater treatment plant and factors influencing phosphorous removal

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Activated Sludge ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plant ◽  
Phosphorus Removal ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Phosphorus Release ◽  
Aeration Tank ◽  
Phosphorous Removal ◽  
Start Up ◽  
The One

Successful start-up of a full-scale wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) is a key issue for the succeeding operation of WWTP on the one hand and the nutritious phosphorus removal is of great concern on the other. After the construction of Mudanjiang WWTP with a flow rate of 100,000 m3 d-1 in Heilongjiang Province of China, a novel way of start-up through feeding wastewater continuously into the system was attempted against the conventional start-up method of inoculating activated sludge in the aeration tank by feeding wastewater intermittently. Activated sludge was cultivated and proliferated in the aeration tanks instead of dosing acclimated sludge from other source. After one-month’s start-up operation, MLSS, SV and SVI increased to 2.5 kg m-3, 30% and nearly 80% respectively, which indicated that quick and simple start-up had been achieved. After successful start-up, an investigation into phosphorus removal was conducted with the emphasis on influencing factors such as ORP and NOx-N concentration etc. When the aeration tank was switched from aerobic to anaerobic mode, phosphorus removal efficiency of 80% could be realized within the whole treatment system. Experimental results revealed that an ORP of -140 mV and NOX-N of 2 mg l-1 were critical for the anaerobic phosphorus release, and DO in the range of 1.7-2.5 mg l-1, BOD5/TP of 20-30 and SVI of 70~80 as well as SRT of 5 days were the optimal phosphorus removal conditions for the aeration tanks.

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