moving bed biofilm reactor MBBR Articles

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

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 biofilm carriers, ...

Aug. 5, 2016

By MUTAG (Multi Umwelttechnologie AG)

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

MBBR and IFAS PILOT Program for denitrification at Fairfax county’s Noman Cole Pollution Control Plant

ABSTRACT As part of a nutrient reduction program, developed to meet new Virginia ENR requirements, two innovative denitrification technologies were piloted at the Noman Cole Jr. Water Pollution Control Plant in Fairfax County, Virginia. The first technology was a Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor (MBBR). The second technology was a modified Integrated Fixed Film Activated Sludge (IFAS) process. These ...

Oct. 13, 2007

By Water Environment Federation (WEF)

Army Truck Wash Depot case study

The Problem: The Army Truck Wash Depot had a trickling filter that was not capable of handling the organic loading generated by heavy vehicle wash operation. The tricking filter was channeling the wastewater due to media that had been crushed by the weight of the biomass that could not be sloughed off. As a result, the ability to treat the wastewater for BOD reduction could not meet the NPDES ...

Jan. 21, 2014

By BioprocessH2O

Partial nitrification in MBBRs for mainstream deammonification with thin biofilms and alternating feed supply

A new principle for mainstream nitrogen removal through nitritation followed by anammox was studied in a two-stage moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) configuration. The first stage was optimized for nitritation by using thin biofilms and a feed alternating between synthetic mainstream wastewater at 15°C and, for shorter periods, synthetic reject water at 30 °C. The exposure of the biofilm to ...

Nov. 26, 2015

By IWA Publishing

Pilot scale studies on nitritation-anammox process for mainstream wastewater at low temperature

Process of partial nitritation-anammox for mainstream wastewater at low temperature was run in a pilot scale moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) system for about 300 days. The biofilm history in the reactor was about 3 years of growth at low temperature (down to 10 °C). The goal of the studies presented in this paper was to achieve effective partial nitritation-anammox process. Influence of ...

Oct. 26, 2015

By IWA Publishing

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

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 ...

May 9, 2013

By IWA Publishing

Treatment Of High Strength Chemical Industry Wastewater Using Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor (MBBR) and Powdered Activated Carbon (PAC) Technology

A new Waste Recycling Facility (WRF) was created at the Sasol coal to liquids facility in Secunda, South Africa with a wastewater treatment system that includes equipment to treat the wastewater and storm water through several steps including equalization, oil removal (gravity separation and dissolved air flotation), lime neutralization/metals precipitation, back-neutralization, fixed-film ...

Oct. 21, 2006

By Water Environment Federation (WEF)

Reverse osmosis concentrate treatment by chemical oxidation and moving bed biofilm processes

In the present work, four oxidation techniques were investigated (O3, O3/UV, H2O2/O3, O3/H2O2/UV) to pre-treat reverse osmosis (RO) concentrate before treatment in a moving-bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) system. Without previous oxidation, the MBBR was able to remove a small fraction of the chemical oxygen demand (COD) (5–20%) and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) (2–15%). ...

Dec. 13, 2013

By IWA Publishing

Protein to polysaccharide ratio in EPS as an indicator of non-optimized operation of tertiary nitrifying MBBR

The protein (PN), polysaccharide (PS), and extracellular DNA (eDNA) percent concentrations of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) of biofilm samples harvested from a pilot-scale nitrifying moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) were investigated at various operating temperatures and hydraulic retention times (HRTs). Chemically measured EPS PN/PS ratios were shown to correlate to Raman ...

Mar. 14, 2016

By IWA Publishing

Microbial characteristics of landfill leachate disposed by aerobic moving bed biofilm reactor

An aerobic moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) was applied to treat landfill leachate generated from a domestic waste incineration plant. Pollutant removal efficiency of this reactor under stable operating condition was studied. The biomass, bacteria species, and microbial metabolism in this reactor were investigated. These results showed that the average removal efficiency of chemical oxygen ...

Dec. 22, 2017

By IWA Publishing

Sustainable recycling-bioFLOW case study

The Problem: The Sustainable Recycling Company is a centralized wastewater treatment (CWT) facility located in Connecticut. They process oily wastewater streams from a variety of sources via an integrated treatment process using collection, oil water separation, ultrafiltration, chemical precipitation. The pretreated wastewater is highly loaded with BOD and COD and the local POTW in Connecticut ...

Jan. 21, 2014

By BioprocessH2O

Ship repair company case study

The Problem: One of the largest ship repair company’s existing wastewater treatment plant was overloaded and undersized to effectively treat the wastewater pumped to the facility from Cruise Liners being repaired by the shipyard. The Solution: BioprocessH2O supplied an equipment package to retrofit and upgrade the existing water treatment system converting the conventional activated ...

Jan. 21, 2014

By BioprocessH2O

Sustainable Recycling Company-bioFAS MBBR case study

The Problem: The Sustainable Recycling Company centralized wastewater treatment (CWT) facility located in Connecticut. They process oily wastewater streams from a variety of sources via an integrated treatment process using collection, oil water separation, ultrafiltration, chemical precipitation. The pretreated wastewater is highly loaded with BOD and COD and the local POTW in Connecticut ...

Jan. 21, 2014

By BioprocessH2O

Nitrite inhibition and limitation – the effect of nitrite spiking on anammox biofilm, suspended and granular biomass

Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) has been studied extensively while no widely accepted optimum values for nitrite (both a substance and inhibitor) has been determined. In the current paper, nitrite spiking (abruptly increasing nitrite concentration in reactor over 20 mg NO−2-NL−1) effect on anammox process was studied on three systems: a moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR), a sequencing ...

Nov. 9, 2016

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

Evaluation of deammonification process performance at different aeration strategies

In a deammonification process applied in the moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) oxygen is a crucial parameter for the process performance and efficiency. The objective of this study was to investigate different aeration strategies, characterised by the ratio between non-aerated and aerated phase times (R) and dissolved oxygen concentrations (DO). The series of batch tests were conducted with ...

Mar. 1, 2011

By IWA Publishing

Influence of seasonal temperature fluctuations on two different partial nitritation-anammox reactors treating mainstream municipal wastewater

Partial nitritation-anammox (PN-A) has gained increasing interest for municipal wastewater treatment in recent years due to its high energy-saving potential. Moving the PN-A technology from side- to mainstream exhibited a set of challenges. Conditions are quite different, with much lower ammonium concentrations and temperatures. Biomass retention becomes highly important due to the even lower ...

Jul. 7, 2015

By IWA Publishing

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