Operation and control of SBR processes for enhanced biological nutrient removal from wastewater

In the last decades, the awareness of environmental issues has increased in society considerably. There is an increasing need to improve the effluent quality of domestic wastewater treatment processes. This thesis describes the application of the Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) technology for Biologi...

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Autor: Puig Broch, Sebastià
Formato: tesis doctoral
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2008
País:España
Recursos:CBUC, CESCA
Repositorio:TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red
OAI Identifier:oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/7798
Acesso em linha:http://www.tdx.cat/TDX-0211108-130619
http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7798
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Carbon source
Aguas residuales
Aigües residuals
Wastewater
Eliminación de nutrientes
Eliminació de nutrients
Nutrient removal
Ethanol
Etanol
Control del reactor secuencial por cargas
Sequencing Batch Reactor control
Control del reactor seqüencial per càrregues
SBR control
Fuentes de carbono
Fonts de carboni
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Resumo:In the last decades, the awareness of environmental issues has increased in society considerably. There is an increasing need to improve the effluent quality of domestic wastewater treatment processes. This thesis describes the application of the Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) technology for Biological Nutrient Removal (BNR) from the wastewater. In particular, the work presented evolves from the nitrogen removal to the biological nutrient removal (i.e. nitrogen plus phosphorous removal) with special attention to the operational strategy design, the identification of possible reactor cycle controls or the influent composition related to the process efficiency. In such sense, also the use of ethanol as an external carbon (when low influent Carbon:Phosphorus (C:P) or Carbon:Nitrogen (C:N) ratios are presented) are studied as an alternative to maintain the BNR efficiency.