Tuning biological nutrient removal plants

Tuning BNR Plants increases interest in tuning to enhance both performance and capacity, to provide insight into typical plant operating characteristics, and to stimulate operators' interest in studying the behaviour of their own plants.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author Hartley, Ken
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published London : IWA Publishing, 2013.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781780404837
1780404832
9781680155624
1680155628
1780404824
9781780404820
Physical Description1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Cover

Table of Contents:
  • Table of Contents: What is Tuning? Influent and Effluent Characteristics, Flow Characteristics, Mass Loading Characteristics, Sewer Transformations, Effect of Primary Treatment, Effluent Characteristics
  • Biological Nutrient Removal
  • Process Fundamentals, The Basic Process, Kinetics of Biological Processes, Solids Retention Time, Carbon Removal, Nitrogen Removal, Phosphorus Removal, Supplementary Chemical Dosing, Alkalinity and pH, Rules of Thumb
  • Sludge Settleability, Characterising Settleability, Settling Rates, Factors Affecting Settleability, Effect of SVI on Effluent Quality
  • BNR Flowsheets
  • Reactors, Mixing, Aeration, Compartmentalised Reactors, Oxidation Ditches, Membrane Bioreactors, Sequencing Batch Reactors
  • Secondary Clarifiers, Description, Mass Balances, Operating Diagrams, Effluent Quality, Clarifier Stress Testing
  • Sludge Processes, Overview, Aerobic Digestion, Sludge Dewatering
  • Plant Characteristics, Mass Balances, Operational Process Capacity, Capacity Envelopes, Energy Consumption, Automatic Control
  • Evolutionary Operation, Learning, Application to Sewage Treatment Plants, Long-Term Improvement, EVOP Procedures, Faux-EVOP
  • A Note on the Statistics of Variability
  • Chemicals: Useful Properties
  • Abbreviations.