Stripping of volatile organic compounds at full-scale municipal wastewater treatment plants

1993 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 708-716 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Bell ◽  
Henryk Melcer ◽  
Hugh Monteith ◽  
Irwin Osinga ◽  
Paula Steel
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Volatile Organic Compounds ◽  
Organic Compounds ◽  
Municipal Wastewater ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Municipal Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Volatile Organic ◽  
Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants

Oxygen uptake at Parshall flumes

1998 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 769-776 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard G Zytner ◽  
Ziyad G Rahmé ◽  
Michael Labocha
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Volatile Organic Compounds ◽  
Oxygen Uptake ◽  
Organic Compounds ◽  
Municipal Wastewater ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Drop Height ◽  
Municipal Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Volatile Organic ◽  
Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants

Parshall flumes are frequently used to measure flow at municipal wastewater treatment plants. With the flume causing turbulent flow, there is the potential for the emission of volatile organic compounds. To assess the extent of the emissions, laboratory and field measurements at Parshall flumes were completed, using oxygen as a surrogate. The laboratory measurements showed that the most important parameters influencing oxygen uptake were total energy loss and downstream water depth. Satisfactory results were also obtained using drop height. Field results from three municipal wastewater treatment plants showed that oxygen uptake correlated strongly with drop height and only slightly with discharge rate. This is beneficial as downstream water depth is difficult to measure in the field. Findings suggest that the use of an appropriate weir model would allow the estimation of oxygen uptake and volatile organic compounds stripping at Parshall flumes.Key words: oxygen uptake, volatile organic compounds, flumes, wastewater.

scholarly journals Effect of COD:N ratio on biological nitrogen removal using full-scale step-feed in municipal wastewater treatment plants

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Supaporn Phanwilai ◽  
Pongsak Noophan ◽  
Chi-Wang Li ◽  
Kwang-Ho Choo
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Nitrogen Removal ◽  
Municipal Wastewater ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Biological Nitrogen Removal ◽  
Municipal Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Scale Step ◽  
Biological Nitrogen

Abstract This study investigated the effect of low and high chemical oxygen demand (COD):N ratios on biological nitrogen removal and microbial distributions in full-scale step-feed (SF) municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in Thailand (SF1) and Taiwan (SF2). The SF1 WWTP had a low COD:N (4:1) ratio, a long solids retention time (SRT) (> 60 d), and low dissolved oxygen (DO) conditions (0.2 mg L− 1 in anoxic tank and 0.9 mg L− 1 in aerobic tank). The total nitrogen (TN) removal efficiency was 48%. The SF2 WWTP had a high COD:N (10:1) ratio, a short SRT (7 d), and high DO (0.6 mg L− 1 in anoxic tank and 1.8 mg L− 1 in aerobic tank). The TN removal efficiency was 61%. The nitrification and denitrification rates from these two plants were inadequate. Using a quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) technique, the populations of ammonium oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and ammonium oxidizing archaea were quantified. Measurement of ammonia monooxygenase (amoA) gene abundances identified these AOB: Nitrosomonas sp., Nitrosospira sp., Nitrosoccus sp. and Zoogloea sp. Higher amounts of the archaeal-amoA gene were found with long SRT, lower DO and COD:N ratios. Abundance of Nitrobacter sp. was slightly higher than Nitrospira sp. at the SF1, while abundance of Nitrobacter sp. was two orders of magnitude greater than Nitrospira sp. at the SF2. More denitrifying bacteria were of the nirS-type than the nirK-type, especially at higher COD:N ratio. Most bacteria belong to the phyla Acidobacteria, Actinobacteria Bacteroidetes, Chloroflexi, Proteobacteria. The results from this work showed that insufficient carbon sources at the SF1 and high DO concentration in anoxic tank of SF2 adversely affected nitrogen removal efficiencies. In further research work, advanced techniques on the next generation sequencing with different variable regions should be recommended in full-scale WWTPs.

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