Tracking the inorganic suspended solids through biological treatment units of wastewater treatment plants |
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| Authors: | Ekama G A Wentzel M C Sötemann S W |
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| Affiliation: | Water Research Group, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, Cape, South Africa. ekama@ebe.uct.ac.za |
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| Abstract: | From an experimental and theoretical investigation of the continuity of influent inorganic suspended solids (ISS) along the links connecting the primary settling tank (PST), fully aerobic or N removal activated sludge (AS) and anaerobic and aerobic digestion (AerD) unit operations, it was found that (i) the influent wastewater (fixed) ISS concentration is conserved through primary sludge anaerobic digestion, and AS and AerD unit operations. However, the measured ISS flux at different stages through a series of WWTP unit operations is not equal to the influent ISS flux because the ordinary heterotrophic organisms (OHO) biomass contributes to the ISS flux by differing amounts depending on the OHO (active) fraction of the VSS solids at that stage. |
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| Keywords: | Wastewater treatment Influent inorganic suspended solids Primary settling Anaerobic digestion Activated sludge Aerobic digestion Model validation |
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