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Control of sludge settleability and nitrogen removal under low dissolved oxygen condition |
Zhaoxu PENG1, Yongzhen PENG1,2(), Zhenbo YU1, Xuliang LIU1, Xiaoling LI1, Randeng WANG1 |
1. State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China; 2. College of Environment and Energy Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100022, China |
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Abstract Low dissolved oxygen (DO) is an energy-saving condition in activated sludge process. To investigate the possible application of limited filamentous bulking (LFB) in sequencing batch reactor (SBR), two lab-scale SBRs were used to treat synthetic domestic wastewater and real municipal wastewater, respectively. The results showed that prolonging low DO aeration duration and setting pre-anoxic (anaerobic) phase were effective strategies to induce and inhibit filamentous sludge bulking, respectively. According to the sludge settleability, LFB could be maintained steadily by adjusting operation patterns. Filamentous bacteria content and sludge volume index (SVI) were likely correlated. SVI fluctuated dramatically within a few cycles when around 200 mL·g-1, where altering operation pattern could change sludge settleability in spite of the unstable status of activated sludge system. Energy consumption by aeration reduced under low DO LFB condition, whereas the nitrification performance deteriorated. However, short-cut nitrification and simultaneous nitrification denitrification (SND) were prone to take place under such conditions. When the cycle time kept constant, the anoxic (anaerobic) to aerobic time ratio was determining factor to the SND efficiency. Similarity keeping aerobic time as constant, the variation trends of SND efficiency and specific SND rate were uniform. SBR is a promising reactor to apply the LFB process in practice.
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Keywords
limited filamentous bulking
sequencing batch reactor
sludge settleability
sludge volume index
simultaneous nitrification denitrification
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Corresponding Author(s):
PENG Yongzhen,Email:pyz@bjut.edu.cn
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Issue Date: 01 December 2012
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