Biological treatment systems, type FBR
The waste water (after primary treatment) is pumped into the aeration basin, which is filled with an activated sludge/water mixture. Activated sludge are flocks of bacteria, also called biomass. In the presence of oxygen, the pollution in the waste water will be decomposed by these bacteria.
The oxygen is supplied to the waste water by a fine bubble diffuser system or by surface aeration. The aeration system is designed to supply optimal conditions in order to decompose the main pollutants present in the waste water. In general the pollutants are organic compounds, comprising of carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen.
Eventually almost all the pollutants will be converted into carbon dioxide, nitrogen gas, water and excess sludge. The water flow is continuously pumped out of the aeration basin, to be processed by a special flotation unit to separate the activated sludge from the clean effluent. This flotation system is capable of handling a high solids loading and has the advantage of thickening the activated sludge up to approximately 5% dry solid content.
Microscopically small air bubbles adhere to the activated sludge, which has been reinforced by the dosing of polyelectrolyte. The sludge floats to the surface of the flotation unit where it is mechanically dewatered and skimmed off by a scraper mechanism.
Advantages FBR system:
● Continuous discharge of purified water, 24 hours/day.
● A high degree of reliability, since the sludge separation by flotation is hardly sensitive to variations in the activated sludge quality.
● Very low suspended solids content in the effluent, compared to conventional clarifiers.
● Small dimensioning of the aeration basin compared to conventional treatment systems with the same capacity.
● The activated sludge flotation system is less than half the size of a onventional clarifier.
● Very high dry solid content (3 – 5%) of the excess sludge, without the use of further dewatering equipment, resulting in only a fourth of the sludge volume retrieved by conventional systems.
● A relatively high BOD5/COD reduction up to 99.9%.
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Biological treatment systems, type BIOCON
The BIOCON’ are designed to treat waste water capacities in standard systems from 50 to 500 population equivalent. For higher capacities the systems can be multiplied, hence if needed the installed system can be easily extended.
A traditional activated sludge plant is designed to enable a continuous process to take place. This plant is composed of at least two parts: an aeration tank and a settling or clarification tank. This process incorporates recycling of settled activated sludge from the settling tank to the aeration tank. The mixing, aeration and settling operations are simultaneous, but are performed in different parts of the system.
As a contrast the Redox Water Technology B.V., SBR plant is operated intermittently and consequently accepts without difficulty, a discontinuous raw water feed. The whole plant consists of only one tank equipped with an aeration system and necessary control equipment. There is no sludge recycling, since the required activated sludge remains permanently in the tank. All processes take place in this one tank, but one after another in successive stages.
This design makes it possible to supervise and control the consecutive process steps independently by means of a central control unit, which requires practically no supervision.
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