The present work was aimed at determining the feasibility of applying the extant kinetic technique to evaluate the ability of the biomass to degrade specific organic pollutants at full scale facilities and to determine the ability of these kinetic parameters to predict effluent concentrations of the target compounds. Biodegradation of acetate, ethylene glycol, acetone, and furfural was studied ...

From an experimental and theoretical investigation of the continuity of wastewater organic chemical oxygen demand (COD) and nitrogen (N) compounds along the link connecting the primary settling tank (PST) and anaerobic digester (AD), it was found that the primary sludge (PS) characteristics, viz. the biodegradable and unbiodegradable soluble and particulate COD and N component concentrations, n...

Membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology has previously been used by water industry to treat high salinity wastewater. In this study, an anoxic-oxic biofilm-membrane bioreactor (AOB-MBR) system has been developed to treat mustard tuber wastewater of 10% salinity (calculated as NaCl). To figure out the effects of operating conditions of the AOB-MBR on membrane fouling rate (KV), response surface met...

Seven wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) with different population equivalents and catchment areas were screened for the prevalence of the colistin resistance gene mcr-1 mediating resistance against last resort antibiotic polymyxin E. The abundance of the plasmid-associated mcr-1 gene in total microbial populations during water treatment processes was quantitatively analyzed by qPCR analyses. ...

Wastewater treatment processes with activated sludge are described in the specialized literature by complex models with nonlinear parameterization, such as for example Activated Sludge Model ASM1, ASM2 or ASM3. Under these conditions, the design of control structures using the state space representation is very difficult. Suitable techniques to approach the control of these processes are using ...

Presents the findings of a study conducted to examine the efficiency of the combined anaerobic-aerobic reactors for the treatment of three different tannery industrial wastewaters, focusing on the fate of chromium and other associated metals. Examines elimination rates of such metals with respect to each successive treatment process. Discusses the correlation between the chemical characteristic...

EXTENDED ABSTRACT For nitrogen rich streams, conventional biological treatment based on nitrification and denitrification usually lacks of efficiency and requires considerable amounts of an external carbon source to be supplied; on the other hand, physical-chemical processes are characterized by high operating costs. The possible application of partial nitritation SHARON (Single reactor for Hig...

An aerobic fluidized bed reactor (FBR) was operated for the removal of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) and benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and p-xylene (BTEX) from water. The reactor was seeded with a mixed culture adapted to MTBE. Granular activated carbon (GAC) was used as the biological attachment medium. Influent MTBE to the reactor was 7.8 mg/L MTBE, with a flow rate of 22.7 L/day, and an e...