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ENV-14-73 Advances in Biological Wastewater Process Control

Robin Schroeder, Environmental Business Specialists

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Description:

Chemical inhibition and toxicity in wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) has historically been difficult to diagnose much less prevent. Chemical inhibition decreases the ability of a biological treatment system to remove organic contaminants and/or produce a healthy biomass, often leading to permit violations. This paper details how advances in wastewater process control testing can identify inhibition in a treatment plant and thereby provide guidelines for monitoring and controlling the system when chemical inhibition is suspected. Advanced testing includes use of fluorescent staining to differentiate respiring, viable, and total bacterial counts, ATP:OUR testing to proactively identify inhibition at the cellular level, quantitative chemical testing to identify chemical characteristics of the influent stream, biomass, and effluent, and treatability studies to track problem influent components upstream. Any one of these tests alone provides important information, but when all this information is combined the information becomes a powerful diagnostic tool that can be used to proactively monitor and prevent upsets at the WWTP.

Product Details:

Product ID: ENV-14-73
Publication Year: 2014