membrane bioreactor Articles
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Considerations for the design and operation of a membrane bioreactor
This paper reviews recent advances in research focusing on the design and operation of a membrane bioreactor and including methodologies for determining the timing for hydraulic and sludge retention, sludge concentration optimisation, the removal of nitrogen and phosphorus, membrane fouling control, and the analysis of processing economics.Keywords: membrane bioreactors, activated sludge, ...
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Evaluation of different configurations of hybrid membrane bioreactors for treatment of domestic wastewater
Four membrane bioreactors (MBRs) with the same dimensions were studied for 180 days: three hybrid growth membrane bioreactors with biofilm attached in different packing media and a conventional MBR (C-MBR). The four MBRs had an identical membrane module of hollow fiber with a nominal porous diameter of 0.4 μm. The MBRs were: (1) a C-MBR; (2) a moving bed membrane bioreactor (MB-MBR), ...
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Performance of a MBR for the treatment of blackwater
The paper describes the experience gained in operating a membrane bioreactor (MBR) for the treatment of blackwater. Beside a complete characterization of blackwater, operational conditions and removal efficiency concerning parameters such as COD, BOD5, nitrogen and phosphorus as well as microbiological parameters were determined. Furthermore the membrane performance was investigated. The results ...
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Study on enhanced biological phosphorus removal using membrane bioreactor at different sludge retention times
An enhanced biological phosphorus removal process coupled with membrane bioreactor was proposed. Four runs were operated at different Sludge Retention Times (SRTs) of 20, 30, 40 and 50 d. Although average phosphorus removal tended to drop with SRT, the total phosphorus removal over 85% could be still achieved if the SRT was maintained under 40 d. Phosphorus-content in the sludge increased with ...
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Kinetic evaluation of nitrification performance in an immobilized cell membrane bioreactor
High rate membrane bioreactor (MBR) systems operated at extremely low sludge ages (superfast membrane bioreactors (SFMBRs)) are inefficient to achieve nitrogen removal, due to insufficient retention time for nitrifiers. Moreover, frequent chemical cleaning is required due to high biomass flux. This study aims to satisfy the nitrification in SFMBRs by using sponge as carriers, leading to the ...
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Effect of phosphorus concentration on phosphorus removal and biomass
Membrane bioreactor (MBR) process was employed to study the effect of biological phosphorus removal (bio-P removal) and P-content in treated sludge with increased phosphorus concentration present in the wastewater. Further, the following four test fractions of raw wastewaters was obtained having different P-concentrations viz., run 1: P-20 mg/L, run 2: P-40 mg/L, run 3: P-60 mg/L, run 4: P-80 ...
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Treatment of slaughterhouse plant wastewater by using a membrane bioreactor
The use of a membrane bioreactor (MBR) for removal of organic substances and nutrients from slaughterhouse plant wastewater was investigated. The chemical oxygen demand (COD), total nitrogen (TN), and total phosphorus (TP) concentrations of slaughterhouse wastewater were found to be approximately 571 mg O2/L, 102.5 mg/L, and 16.25 mg PO4-P/L, respectively. A submerged type membrane was used in ...
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Application of biofilm membrane bioreactor and Reverse Osmosis membrane to the treatment of fresh and partially stabilised leachate
Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) with sponge cube media and reverse osmosis (RO) were investigated in laboratory scale. Fresh and partially stabilised leachate contained COD/N of 30 and 10 and BOD/COD of 0.7-0.9 and 0.4-0.7, respectively. Continuous and intermittent aeration modes were examined. COD and TKN removals were more than 90%. Highest nitrogen removal efficiency was achieved when aeration of 1 ...
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Effect of salinity variation on the autotrophic kinetics of the start-up of a membrane bioreactor and hybrid moving bed biofilm reactor-membrane bioreactor at low hydraulic retention time
A membrane bioreactor (MBR) and a hybrid moving bed biofilm reactor-membrane bioreactor (hybrid MBBR-MBR) for municipal wastewater treatment were studied to determine the effect of salinity on nitrogen removal and autotrophic kinetics. The biological systems were analyzed during the start-up phase with a hydraulic retention time (HRT) of 6 h, total biomass concentration of 2,500 mg L−1 in the ...
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Integration of nitrification and denitrification by combining anoxic and aerobic conditions in a membrane bioreactor
A membrane bioreactor (MBR) was developed to achieve nitrogen removal by combining nitrification and denitrification conditions in one reactor. The activated sludge was alternated between aerobic and anoxic conditions using peristaltic pump. The biomass concentration and floc morphological properties were observed to be similar in anoxic and aerobic compartments. However, the homogeneous ...
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Comparison of nutrient-removing microbial communities in activated sludge from full-scale MBRs and conventional plants
The composition of nutrient-removing microbial communities in five full-scale membrane bioreactors (MBRs) was investigated using fluorescence in situ hybridization and 16S rRNA pyrosequencing and compared to similar analyses of conventional activated sludge (CAS) communities. The communities were highly similar but some genera that are always present in enhanced biological phosphorus removal ...
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Nitrogen removal using an anammox membrane bioreactor at low temperature
Membrane bioreactors (MBRs) have the ability to completely retain biomass and are thus suitable for slowly growing anammox bacteria. In the present study, an anammox MBR was operated to investigate whether the anammox activity would remain stable at low temperature, without anammox biomass washout. The maximum nitrogen removal rates were 6.7 and 1.1 g-N L−1 day−1 at 35 °C and 15 °C, ...
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Treatment performance and microbial characteristics in two-stage membrane bioreactor applied to partially stabilized leachate
A two-stage membrane bioreactor system was applied to the treatment of partially stabilized leachate from solid waste landfill in Thailand. In the system, an anoxic tank with incline tube for biomass separation from re-circulated sludge is followed by a second-stage aerobic tank in which a direct submerged hollow-fiber membrane module is used for solid–liquid separation. During steady operation ...
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New urban wastewater treatment with autotrophic membrane bioreactor at low chemical oxygen demand/N substrate ratio
The potential for total nitrogen removal from municipal wastewater has been evaluated in an autotrophic membrane bioreactor running with a low chemical oxygen demand (COD)/N ratio to simulate its combination with an upstream physicochemical process that retains a large proportion of organic matter. The tests were conducted in a laboratory scale submerged membrane bioreactor loaded with a ...
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Application of sequencing batch membrane bioreactors (SB-MBR) for the treatment of municipal wastewater
Sequencing batch membrane bioreactors can be a good option in up-grading small municipal plant and for industrial applications, maintaining some of the advantages of both original technologies (effluent quality improvement, flexibility and simplicity of realization, operation and control). In this study, the effects of volumetric exchange ratio (VER) and aeration/filtration strategy have been ...
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Electrically enhanced MBR system for total nutrient removal in remote northern applications
Thousands of sparsely populated communities scatter in the remote areas of northern Canada. It is economically preferable to adopt the decentralized systems to treat the domestic wastewater because of the vast human inhabitant distribution and cold climatic conditions. Electro-technologies such as electrofiltration, elctrofloatation, electrocoagulation and electrokinetic separation have been ...
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Low dissolved oxygen membrane bioreactor processes (LDO–MBRs): a review
Aeration energy demands for bioprocesses and membrane scouring in membrane bioreactors (MBRs) account for 50% to over 70% of the total operational energy consumption. Energy saving achieved by operating MBRs under low dissolved oxygen (DO) would be an interesting approach to bring MBRs to higher levels of efficiency. This review paper is first carried out to provide a systematic investigation on ...
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Membrane Bioreactor Pilot
The problem A company which produces a product that requires a constant supply of relatively clean water is planning to expand by adding new process units online. The plant currently uses well water as a supply to its production. The water production from the well is limited. They need to install a system to produce reuse water to reduce the amount of water required from the onsite well in ...
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Membrane Bioreactor for Sanitary Landfill
The Problem The county of Warren NJ owns and operates a sanitary landfill in Oxford Twp, NJ. The facility generates an average of 50,000 gallons per day of leachate, with peaks to 100,000 gallons per day. The facility was discharging to a local POTW from their lagoon, but they were facing requirements for nitrogen removal from the POTW and needed a new system to provide the required treatment. ...
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Model-based methodology for the design of optimal control strategies in MBR plants
This paper proposes a model-based methodology that allows synthesising the most appropriate strategies for optimising the operation of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). The methodology is applied with the aim of maximising the nitrogen removal in membrane bioreactors (MBRs). The proposed procedure is based on a systematic approach composed of four steps. First, a sensitivity analysis of ...
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