BACKGROUND In this study, a hybrid treatment system (Fluidized Bed positioned in a biological reactor of an Activated Sludge process) was used to treat saline domestic wastewater. The performance of the mentioned hybrid system was compared with the conventional activated sludge. A pilot study was conducted, and Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), Electrical Conductivity (EC), Total Dissolved Solids (...

Thermophilic treatment is one of the advanced treatment technologies used for the purification of high-strength wastewaters. Thermophilic systems are conventionally used for sludge treatment, but their ability to reduce COD to a great extent with sludge generation one-tenth when compared to the other wastewater treatment technologies, have favored its application for wastewater purification. Mo...

Environmental release of engineered nanoparticles (NPs) has been on the rise due to the increased use of NPs in commercial products. In addition, the fate of NPs in sewage treatment processes may play an important role in determining the environmental release pathway of NPs. In this study, we investigated the removal of engineered NPs (AgNPs, TiO2NPs, and SiO2NPs) using activated sludge by eval...

background: a new biological domestic wastewater treatment process, which has been presented these days in activated sludge modification, is upflow sludge blanket filtration (usbf). this process is aerobic and acts by using a sludge blanket in the separator of sedimentation tank. all biological flocs and suspended solids, which are presented in the aeration basin, pas through this blanket. the ...

A suspension of wastewater and treatment organisms in an aerated tank is known as the activated sludge process. The activated sludge process can be used for onsite wastewater treatment, generally requiring the addition of an air pump to deliver oxygen to the system and provide mixing energy. Suspended growth treatment systems can be secondary only (require supplemental primary treatment) or com...

A membrane bioreactor (MBR) and an activated sludge process (ASP) were operated side by side to evaluate the change of sludge supernatant characteristics and the evolution of the sludge fouling propensity. The MBR sludge had a higher organic concentration and more biopolymer clusters (BPC) in the supernatant compared with ASP. BPC increased in both concentration and size in the MBR. The results...