scholarly journals Treatment Characteristics of Synthetic Wastewater Containing Suspended Solids by an Anaerobic Filter System.

1994 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takashi MIYAHARA ◽  
Akito MATSUMOTO ◽  
Tatsuya NOIKE
1990 ◽  
Vol 22 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 153-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Okubo ◽  
M. Okada ◽  
A. Murakami ◽  
Y. Inamori

Effects of daily variation of flow on the performance of submerged anaerobic/aerobic biofilm systems were investigated both by laboratory study using synthetic wastewater and by field study using gray water. In laboratory study, concentration of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in effluent from anaerobic filter fluctuated with daily variation of flow when average hydraulic retention time (HRT) was below 10 h. However, daily mean values of DOC under the varied flow was almost the same as those under constant flow within the same daily mean HRT. Aerobic filter linked to anaerobic filter reduced the concentration of DOC satisfactorily though the concentration in anaerobic filter increased under short HRT. In field study, percent removal of organic carbon by anaerobic filter was considerably smaller (20-30%) than that in laboratory study (90-95%) both at HRT of 20 h though it was improved up to 60-80% by aerobic filter. Effects of peaking factor of flow on the variation of DOC were evaluated by mathematical analysis. It seemed that the peaking factor hardly affected daily mean values of DOC within the same daily mean HRT though maximum values of DOC increased with the increase of peaking factor.


1997 ◽  
Vol 36 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 125-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshiya Komatsu ◽  
Jun Shinmyo ◽  
Kiyoshi Momonoi

Tetrachloroethylene (PCE) is one of the most common groundwater contaminants in Japan. PCE can be completely dechlorinated to ethylene (ETY) and ethane (ETA) by anaerobic microorganisms in the presence of a suitable electron donor. This study was conducted to examine the feasibility of using an anaerobic filter for the degradation of PCE in a bioremediation process. Laboratory-scale anaerobic filters were operated at 25°C using ethanol as the electron donor. Rapid start-up of the reactors was achieved by using anaerobic completely PCE-dechlorinating enrichment cultures as the inoculum. During the continuous operating periods, low concentrations (2.8 mg/L) of PCE were almost completely dechlorinated to ETY and ETA at hydraulic retention times of 49-15 hours with 100 mgCOD/L of ethanol. PCE concentrations as high as 80 mg/L was dechlorinated to ETY with a relatively low supply (200 mgCOD/L) of ethanol. Results of this study suggest that the anaerobic filter system is a feasible bioremediation process for the cleanup of groundwater which is contaminated by chlorinated ethylenes.


1987 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 474-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.L. Droste ◽  
S.R. Guiot ◽  
S.S. Gorur ◽  
K.J. Kennedy

Abstract Anaerobic treatment of dilute synthetic wastewater (300-1,000 mg chemical oxygen demand/L using laboratory upflow sludge blanket filter reactors with and without effluent recycle is described. Treatment of dilute synthetic wastewater at hydraulic retention times less than 1 and 2 h in reactors without and with recycle, respectively, resulted in biomass washout as the solids retention time decreased to less than 12 d. Reseeding would be required to operate at these critical hydraulic retention times for extended periods. Treatment of dilute synthetic wastewater at hydraulic retention times between 3-12 h resulted in soluble COD removal efficiencies between 84-95% treating 300 mg COD/L. At a 3 h hydraulic retention time, solids retention time of 80 d and stable reactor biomass concentrations of 25 g volatile suspended solids/L were maintained.


2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-70
Author(s):  
Roumi Bhattacharya ◽  
Debabrata Mazumder

Abstract Nitrification of ammonium nitrogen (NH4+-N)-bearing synthetic wastewater was performed in a batch-activated sludge reactor by varying the initial ammonium nitrogen concentration up to 400 mg/L at a pH of 8.1 ± 0.2 and temperature of 36 ± 2 °C for developing the process kinetics using acclimatised biomass. Maximum ammonium nitrogen removal efficiency of 98.3% was achieved with initial ammonium nitrogen and mixed liquor suspended solids concentration of 235 mg/L and 2,180 mg/L, respectively, at 48 h batch period. Based on the experimental results, kinetic constants for ammonia nitrogen removal following Monod's approach were obtained as maximum substrate removal rate coefficient = 0.057 per day, yield coefficient = 0.336 mg volatile suspended solids/mg ammonium nitrogen, half velocity constant = 12.95 mg NH4+-N/L and endogenous decay constant = 0.02 per day. Nitrification is a consecutive reaction with ammonium oxidation as the first step followed by nitrite oxidation. The overall rate of nitrite and nitrate formation was observed to be 1.44 per day and 0.34 per day, respectively.


2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (9) ◽  
pp. 1407-1413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Todt ◽  
Petter D. Jenssen

A novel sequential mechanical filter system was developed as an alternative primary treatment method for onsite wastewater treatment. The filter combines traditional screening with a novel type of counter-flow filter using wood-shavings as a biodegradable filter matrix. This study tested the system in a batch loading regime simulating high frequency toilet flushing using blackwater from a student dormitory. The filter removed 78–85% of suspended solids, 60–80% of chemical oxygen demand, and 42–57% of total-P in blackwater, giving a retentate with a dry matter content of 13–20%. Data analysis clearly indicated a tendency towards higher removal performance with high inlet concentrations, hence, the system seems to be most applicable to blackwater or other types of wastewater with a high content of suspended solids.


1993 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. 878-891
Author(s):  
Takuya OKUBO ◽  
Masaaki HOSOMI ◽  
Mitsumasa OKADA ◽  
Akihiko MURAKAMI

1991 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-100
Author(s):  
Shankha K. Banerji ◽  
Kye-Min Cho

Abstract An innovative aerated biofilm process (ABP) was evaluated under laboratory conditions to treat synthetic wastewater. The particular system performed well (>90% BOD removal) at fairly high BOD loading conditions (16.7 g BOD m−2d−1). The process did not require a separate secondary settling chamber to produce an effluent low in suspended solids (<10 mgL−1). The amount of sludge produced was lower than other comparable systems — 0.3g total solids were produced per g of BOD removed at an organic removal rate of 8 g BOD m−2d−1. This process could be adopted for treating wastewater in small systems.


1991 ◽  
Vol 23 (7-9) ◽  
pp. 1467-1476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyu-Hong Ahn ◽  
Jae-Soo Chang

A laboratory study was conducted to investigate the performance of RBC-Settling tank system on wastewater treatment in comparison with conventional RBC. The same synthetic wastewater was fed parallel into four stage laboratory scale cascade-connected RBC-Settling tank and conventional RBC reactors at a fixed rotational speed and hydraulic loading. At three different organic loading rates of 6.14, 13.44 and 23.31 g SCOD/m2/day, the results of the systems are presented in terms of ammonia nitrogen (NH3-N), total kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN), organic and suspended solids (SS) loading and removal. Disk Biomass Index (DBI), Sludge Biomass Index (SBI) and Fractional Biomass Volatile Solids Destruction (FBVSD) were used to compare the disk active biomass and sludge stability of the RBC-Settling tank system with those of the conventional RBC. Removal efficiency of suspended solids, ammonia nitrogen and total Kjeldahl nitrogen was found to be much higher in the RBC-Settling tank system than the conventional RBC but organic removal in terms of SCOD removed g/m2/day of both reactors was not much different. Much better sludge stabilization was observed in the RBC-Settling tank system. The RBC-Settling tank system showed good performance on the suspended solids, NH3-N and TKN removal, and sludge stabilization as well as organic removal, which indicates that this is an effective and economical system for treating domestic wastewater in small and isolated communities.


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