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Biofilm carriers / MBBR carrier media and their respective diffusion depth

Within the biological wastewater treatment sector, it can increasingly be observed that biofilm carriers are applied in so-called Moving Bed Biofilm Reactors (MBBR). Thereby, the MBBR process is not only used to great success for the purification of domestic sewage but also in the sector of industrial wastewater and aquaculture systems. The availability of high-performance ...

Aug. 5, 2016

By Multi Umwelttechnologie AG

Biofilm regeneration on carriers in MBBR used for vitamin C wastewater treatment

Methods were investigated for biofilm regeneration on carriers in a moving bed biofilm reactor used for vitamin C production wastewater treatment. Three ordinary chemical cleaning agents (hydrochloric acid, sodium hydroxide, and sodium hypochlorite) and physical drying were chosen for evaluation as methods for biofilm detachment. The results showed that these methods all had some degree of ...

Mar. 18, 2013

By IWA Publishing

Steps for a BM respirometry test with the special reactor for MBBR

1. Load de biomass carriers in the reactor cage 2. Place the filled cage into de reactor vessel loaded with surrounding mixed‐liquor of the actual process 3. Install reactor assembly and connectors in the analyzer console 4. Set the test configuration 5. Run the test 6. Check measurements throughout the test 7. See ...

Nov. 19, 2014

By SURCIS, S.L.

$Organic removal activity in biofilm and suspended biomass fractions of MBBR systems$

Organic removal activity in biofilm and suspended biomass fractions of MBBR systems

The moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) wastewater treatment process is usually designed based on the assumption that all activity in the process occurs in the biofilm on the MBBR carriers, although there is always some active biomass in the bulk liquid due to biofilm sloughing and, sometimes, free-growing bacteria. In this study the removal of organic matter is evaluated in laboratory-scale MBBR ...

Jan. 16, 2014

By IWA Publishing

Modelling clogging and biofilm detachment in sponge carrier media

Sponge carrier media provide a large surface area for biofilm support; however, little information is known about how to model their dual nature as a moving bed and as porous media. To investigate the interaction of mass transfer and detachment with bio-clogging, a novel biofilm model framework was built based on individual-based modelling, and hydrodynamics were modelled using the lattice ...

Mar. 19, 2014

By IWA Publishing

Energy, cost and design aspects of coarse- and fine-bubble aeration systems in the MBBR IFAS process

With the MBBR IFAS (moving bed biofilm reactor integrated fixed-film activated sludge) process, the biomass required for biological wastewater treatment is either suspended or fixed on free-moving plastic carriers in the reactor. Coarse- or fine-bubble aeration systems are used in the MBBR IFAS process. In this study, the oxygen transfer efficiency (OTE) of a coarse-bubble aeration system was ...

Dec. 9, 2016

By IWA Publishing

Rapid start-up of one-stage deammonification MBBR without addition of external inoculum

In recent years, the anammox process has emerged as a useful method for robust and efficient nitrogen removal in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). This paper evaluates a one-stage deammonification (nitritation and anammox) start-up using carrier material without using anammox inoculum. A continuous laboratory-scale process was followed by full-scale operation with reject water from the ...

Sep. 1, 2016

By IWA Publishing

Start-up of membrane bioreactor and hybrid moving bed biofilm reactor–membrane bioreactor: kinetic study

A hybrid moving bed biofilm reactor–membrane bioreactor (hybrid MBBR-MBR) system was studied as an alternative solution to conventional activated sludge processes and membrane bioreactors. This paper shows the results obtained from three laboratory-scale wastewater treatment plants working in parallel in the start-up and steady states. The first wastewater treatment plant was a MBR, the second ...

Aug. 8, 2015

By IWA Publishing

Application of a moving-bed biofilm reactor for sulfur-oxidizing autotrophic denitrification

Sulfur-oxidizing autotrophic denitrification (SO-AD) was investigated in a laboratory-scale moving-bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) at a sewage temperature of 22 °C. A synthetic wastewater with nitrate, sulfide and thiosulfate was fed into the MBBR. After 20 days' acclimation, the reduced sulfur compounds were completely oxidized and nitrogen removal efficiency achieved up to 82%. The operation ...

Dec. 12, 2017

By IWA Publishing

Development of a compact, cost effective, and energy efficient biofilm reactor for wastewater treatment and effluent reuse

Abstract The CFIC (Continuous Flow Intermittent Cleaning) biofilm reactor has been developed. It contains highly packed biofilm carriers to a degree that little movement of the carriers occurs in the reactor during normal operation. The process has continuous inflow to the bioreactor and intermittent cleaning, which removes excess biomass from the biofilm carriers. A large void volume ...

Aug. 19, 2014

By Biowater Technology AS

Quantification of kinetic parameters for heterotrophic bacteria via respirometry in a hybrid reactor

Over the last decade new technologies are emerging even more for wastewater treatment. Among the new technologies, a recent possible solution regards Moving Bed Biofilm Reactors (MBBRs) that represent an effective alternative to conventional processes. More specifically such systems consist in the introduction of plastic elements inside the aerobic reactor as carrier material for the growth of ...

Apr. 1, 2010

By IWA Publishing

Treatment of petroleum refinery wastewater using a sequential anaerobic–aerobic moving-bed biofilm reactor system based on suspended ceramsite

In this study, a novel suspended ceramsite was prepared, which has high strength, optimum density (close to water), and high porosity. The ceramsite was used to feed a moving-bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) system with an anaerobic–aerobic (A/O) arrangement to treat petroleum refinery wastewater for simultaneous removal of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and ammonium. The hydraulic retention time ...

May 9, 2013

By IWA Publishing

Stable and reliable ANAMMOX process provided by Mutag BioChip 25™ biofilm technology

Since the demand for the so-called “ANAMMOX process” (ANaerobic AMMonium OXidation) is steadily growing within the sector of biological treatment of wastewater and sewage, a new and effective solution for maintaining the process stability is urgently required. A suchlike solution can be realized by means of a special biofilm carrier-based ...

Nov. 24, 2016

By Multi Umwelttechnologie AG

Anammox moving bed biofilm reactor pilot at the 26th Ward wastewater treatment plants in Brooklyn, New York: start-up, biofilm population diversity and performance optimization

New York City Environmental Protection in conjunction with City College of New York assessed the application of the anammox process in the reject water treatment using a moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) located at the 26th Ward wastewater treatment plant, in Brooklyn, NY. The single-stage nitritation/anammox MBBR was seeded with activated sludge and consequently was enriched with its own ...

Nov. 18, 2014

By IWA Publishing

The application of moving bed biofilm reactor to denitrification process after trickling filters

The paper presents research of a prototype moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR). The device was used for the post-denitrification process and was installed at the end of a technological system consisting of a septic tank and two trickling filters. The concentrations of suspended biomass and biomass attached on the EvU Perl moving bed surface were determined. The impact of the external organic ...

Oct. 8, 2016

By IWA Publishing

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Dec. 22, 2011

By Biowater Technology

Nitrogen and carbon removal efficiency of a polyvinyl alcohol gel based moving bed biofilm reactor system

In this study, the effectiveness of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) gel beads in treating domestic wastewater was investigated: a moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) configuration (oxic-anoxic and oxic) with 10% filling fraction of biomass carriers was operated in a continuously fed regime at temperatures of 25, 20, 15 and 6 °C with hydraulic retention times (HRTs) of 32 h, 18 h, 12 h and 9 h, ...

Dec. 17, 2015

By IWA Publishing

Synergistic application of advanced primary and secondary wastewater treatment systems

Published in Water and Waste Digest membrane issue, November 2008 Miroslav Colic; Chief Scientist, Clean Water Technology Inc., Los Angeles, CA To be published in Water and Waste Digest later this year The increased regulatory pressures and demand for reused water stimulated development of several new wastewater technologies in the last decade. Advanced treatment systems are ...

Jan. 1, 2008

By Clean Water Technology, Inc.

Optimization of operational parameters in moving bed biofilm reactor with low cost polystyrene biocarrier by the response surface method

The combined effects of three independent variables (carrier filling ratio, aeration rate and reactor run time (RRT)) were evaluated in a continuous moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) through central composite design (CCD) of the response surface methodology (RSM) for experimental design, analysis and process optimization for municipal wastewater treatment processes. A low-cost polystyrene ...

Jan. 13, 2017

By IWA Publishing

Organic matter removal from saline agricultural drainage wastewater using a moving bed biofilm reactor

We investigated the effect of salinity on the removal of organics and ammonium from agricultural drainage wastewater (ADW) using moving bed biofilm reactors (MBBRs). Under the typical salinity level of ADW (total dissolved solids (TDS) concentration up to 2.5 g·L−1), microorganisms were acclimated for 40 days on plastic carriers and a stable slime layer of attached biofilm was formed. Next, ...

Jul. 7, 2015

By IWA Publishing

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