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<p>Due to eutrophication phenomena the modern wastewater plants are obliged to apply highly effective technologies to remove nutrient, i.e. nitrogen and phosphorous, substances. The biological methods to remove nitrogen in the processes of nitrification and denitrifications are successfully used in the main technological line (mainstream). It has been observed, however, that in technical design of activated sludge bioreactor the additional ammonia nitrogen load coming from fermented sludge dewatering effluents was not sufficiently considered. This load, of ca. 20–30% of a total nitrogen inflow, could interrupt the nitrogen removal process. Therefore, the sidestream ammonia nitrogen removal technologies have been widely applied. The operating problems and the ways to solve them in the “Śródmieście” WWTP in Zabrze, resulting from additional nitrogen load, coming from dewatering and thickening effluents, are described in the presented paper. Moreover, preliminary calculations of the DEMON<sup>®</sup> reactor volume, on the basis of actual nitrogen concentrations in the leachate, in order to implementation deammonification technology in the sidestream on a technical scale were also presented.</p>
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Due to eutrophication phenomena the modern wastewater plants are obliged to apply highly effective technologies to remove nutrient, i.e. nitrogen and phosphorous, substances. The biological methods to remove nitrogen in the processes of nitrification and denitrifications are successfully used in the main technological line (mainstream). It has been observed, however, that in technical design of activated sludge bioreactor the additional ammonia nitrogen load coming from fermented sludge dewatering effluents was not sufficiently considered. This load, of ca. 20–30% of a total nitrogen inflow, could interrupt the nitrogen removal process. Therefore, the sidestream ammonia nitrogen removal technologies have been widely applied. The operating problems and the ways to solve them in the “Śródmieście” WWTP in Zabrze, resulting from additional nitrogen load, coming from dewatering and thickening effluents, are described in the presented paper. Moreover, preliminary calculations of the DEMON® reactor volume, on the basis of actual nitrogen concentrations in the leachate, in order to implementation deammonification technology in the sidestream on a technical scale were also presented.

ANALYSIS OF THE POSSIBLE APPLICATION OF DEAMMONIFICATION TECHNOLOGY IN THE MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT IN ZABRZE

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Due to eutrophication phenomena the modern wastewater plants are obliged to apply highly effective technologies to remove nutrient, i.e. nitrogen and...

ANALYSIS OF THE POSSIBLE APPLICATION OF DEAMMONIFICATION TECHNOLOGY IN THE MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT IN ZABRZE

Article Category: research-article

Pubblicato online: 07 gen 2020

Pagine: 115 - 123

Ricevuto: 20 ott 2019

Accettato: 16 nov 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/acee-2019-057

Parole chiave
Deammonification, Reject water, Nitrogen removal in the sidestream, DEMON system

© 2019 Grażyna PĘCIAK-FORYŚ et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

ANALYSIS OF THE POSSIBLE APPLICATION OF DEAMMONIFICATION TECHNOLOGY IN THE MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT IN ZABRZE

Article Category: research-article

Pubblicato online: 07 gen 2020

Pagine: 115 - 123

Ricevuto: 20 ott 2019

Accettato: 16 nov 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/acee-2019-057

Parole chiaveDeammonification, Reject water, Nitrogen removal in the sidestream, DEMON system

© 2019 Grażyna PĘCIAK-FORYŚ et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Parole chiave
Deammonification, Reject water, Nitrogen removal in the sidestream, DEMON system