Would it be Possible to Optimize a Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant?

Authors

  • Stig Morling

Keywords:

bod (biochemical oxygen demand), loading conditions, measurement, nitrogen, nitrification, phosphorus, solids retention time, temperature

Abstract

Operation of modern wastewater treatment facilities (in the following: WWTP) are to a very large extent based on different forms of biological treatment. Historically a number of activated sludge models have dominated the market. The model that originally was developed during the second decade of the 20th century is often addressed as a suspended growth system as a contrast to attached growth models, such as trickling filters, rotating biological contactors (RBC:s) and more recently the moving bed biological reactors (MBBR:s). Regardless of the system chosen the biological stage in a modern WWTP represents the major energy consuming stage. The obvious exception for this statement is by convention the anaerobic treatment, especially used when the wastewater is a “high strength” stream, rich in hydrocarbonates. The sharpened demand on biological nutrient removal, especially nitrogen removal has even more highlighted the needs for an efficient process control.

How to Cite

Stig Morling. (2014). Would it be Possible to Optimize a Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant?. Global Journal of Science Frontier Research, 14(H6), 1–8. Retrieved from https://journalofscience.org/index.php/GJSFR/article/view/1446

Would it be Possible to Optimize a Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant?

Published

2014-05-15