5629results about "Biological treatment apparatus" patented technology

A method and apparatus creates gas-enriched fluid that is used to treat wastewater. In one embodiment, the wastewater is withdrawn from a supply of wastewater to be treated, and the wastewater is delivered in an atomized manner to a vessel pressurized with gas to form gas-enriched wastewater. The gas-enriched wastewater is then delivered to the supply of wastewater to be treated.

The wastewater treatment system provides multiple techniques for decontaminating wastewater contained within a single system, thus optimizing the decontamination of the wastewater. In one embodiment, the wastewater treatment system includes a steel-reinforced plastic tank having first and second partition walls dividing the tank into first, second and third chambers. The first chamber includes at least one first effluent filter and further contains anaerobic bacteria for removal of organic waste material from the wastewater received therein. The first chamber is configured for at least partial removal of particulate and organic matter from the wastewater. The second chamber includes an air diffuser and further contains aerobic bacteria for further removal of organic waste material from the wastewater received therein. The third chamber includes a sludge pump assembly and at least one second effluent filter. Resultant purified water is selectively discharged from the third chamber through an outlet port.

A complete storm water management system and process which performs both drainage and treatment tasks and incorporates a wetlands water treatment system. This system creates an infrastructure, flow control which is multi-level and multi-stage. This system incorporates a self-contained wetlands treatment system. This is a modular system which includes three or more linear chambers through which the storm water or other influent passes and is cleaned. The influent which flows into a storm drain, curb inlet, or inflow pipe into the system is directed first into a screening type catch basin inset filter within the first chamber of the system. The wetlands chamber is composed of one or more modular segments which may be made in various depths, lengths and widths. The influent is treated within the first chamber before it passes out of this chamber into the incorporated wetlands system. The water flows through the wetlands chamber where it is further filtered and decontaminated through both an aerobic and anaerobic process. In situations of high runoff there is a bypass component which runs directly from the first chamber and bypasses the wetlands chamber dumping the pretreated water into the discharge final chamber. This system is fitted with a variable level treatment component designed in such a way to offer variable discharge rates and thus vary the level of treatments over a wide range of flow rates. The system can be placed underground, and below concrete, such as in parking lots or park areas.

This invention relates to a refuse landfill leachate wastewater treatment system comprising a collection well, an adjustment tank, a filter, a comprehensive treatment system having a multi-stage anoxic/aerobic pool and a membrane biological reactor. The process of treatment is: waste water enters a adjustment tanke in which water quality and quantity are adjusted; subsequently, enters a filter, the water discharged from the filter and enters a comprehensive treatment system having a multi-stage anoxic/aerobic pool and a membrane biological reactor, wherein waster water is bio-chemically treated to remove the organic substances, nitrogen and ammonia, and then the wastewater is discharged into a catalyzed oxidation tower; the organic substance in waste water is oxidized on effect of ozone and under the existing catalyst function and then the biochemical capacity thereof is enhanced; and then the catalyzed and oxidized waste water enters carbon filter pool, the remaining contaminated matter can be further removed by degradation of the anoxic oxidation of the biological membrane on the packing material in pool, then the output water meets the requirement of National Standard or other relevant industrial standards.

Embodiments provided herein include methods and apparatuses for purification and recycling of hydrofracture water used in natural gas drilling and production. Embodiments include removal of dissolved solids by precipitation with sodium sulfate and by evaporation using, for example, a multiple effect evaporator.

A membrane filtration system comprising one or more submerged ultrafiltration or microfiltration membrane assemblies at ambient pressure, each membrane assembly positioned 100-240 mm from a nearest wall, baffle, or adjacent membrane assembly and no more than 1 meter above a floor and at least 150 mm below the liquid level. Mixed liquor is discharged underneath each membrane assembly to create a vertical flow velocity in a range of 1-8 mm/second along an entire length of the membrane assembly. In a sequenced batch reactor system, a coarse bubble air diffuser for scouring each membrane assembly is supplied with air only during the backwash cycle of the filtration system and not during the filtration cycle. In a membrane bioreactor system, the biological treatment section is physically separated from the filtration section and fine bubble air diffusion is used in the biological treatment section.

A closed recirculating aquaponics system combined with a biofloc tank for symbiotic breeding of aquatic species and plant species, wherein the culture water for growing aquatic species is transferred to a plant growing apparatus, organic material in the culture water is used as nutrients for plant species and the water is purified in the plant growing apparatus, and purified water is reused as culture water for aquatic species to facilitate symbiotic breeding of aquatic species and plant species without any need of culture water exchange, reducing cost for production and enhancing production efficiency.

A method and a system for selecting and retaining solids with superior settling characteristics, the method comprising feeding wastewater to an input of a processor that carries out a treatment process on the wastewater, outputting processed wastewater at an output of the processor, feeding the processed wastewater to an input of a gravimetric selector that selects solids with superior settling characteristics, and outputting a recycle stream at a first output of the gravimetric selector back to the processor.

The invention discloses an algal fungi synergistic ecological type microbial fuel cell and a method for generating electricity by utilizing water purification. The fuel cell consists of a fuel cell body, a water inlet distribution system, an anaerobic reaction area, a wetland ecological anode area and an algal fungi symbiotic cathode area. A cation exchange resin is added into a matrix, straw biological carbon is adopted in the wetland matrix, the conductivity is improved, and the internal resistance is reduced; an algal ecological cathode is constructed, and energy conservation and low carbon are realized; and moreover, a deep anaerobic zone is increased on the lower layer of the anode area and adapts to sewage feeding of high-concentration COD, the height of the cell body is increased, and the electrical activity of the cell is improved. The ecological wetland and the microbial fuel cell are combined, a wetland ecological anode and an algal fungi symbiotic oxygen-releasing ecological cathode are constructed, the ecological type microbial fuel cell is formed, and sewage treatment and energy recycling are realized.

A wastewater treatment method employing chemicals for disinfection, and precipitation of suspended solids, heavy metals and phosphates before subsequent aerobic bacterial biological treatment using Nitrosomonas and Nitrobacter bacteria to remove ammonia and nitrates/nitrites and BOD compounds to produce recovered treated wastewater suitable for open water discharge.

A portable water treatment system selectively configurable between a portable configuration and a water treatment system configuration. The portable water treatment system includes multiple nest and stack containers. A flocculation container includes a manual valve component that interacts with a filter support to form a valve that controls flow of water. The filter system may include one or more rotatable biofoam filters, each with a restriction orifice to control flow rate and allow a biological community to colonize and develop on or in the filters. The filters can be rotated between a filter operating position and a filter maintenance position. The water treatment system may include a chlorination system that can handle a chlorine tablet that does not contain a stabilizer. The water treatment system may include a storage container with a carbon filter that removes chlorine from the water before being dispensed. The carbon filter can be retained in place using a retaining frame with a U-shaped opening for clamping the end cap of the carbon filter.

Waste-treatment processes are enhanced through generation and introduction of specific biological populations customized to perform or favor specific tasks either during the main process, for the formation or precipitation of certain biological nutrients, or to accomplish solids formation reduction in a post-treatment process. These bacteria may be grown from specialized mixes of activated sludge and waste influent by exposing these materials to controlled environments (e.g., in an off-line treatment area). They may then be returned to the main process to perform certain tasks such as converting particulate cBOD into soluble cBOD for utilization, to reduce high solids yield organisms by supplementing the population characteristics with low yield organism characteristics, to provide biological nutrients or oxygenation assistance, to improve nitrification/denitrification efficiency, or to disfavor filamentous biology such as Norcardia sp.

There are provided processes for treating wastewater. The processes can comprise treating a mixture comprising the wastewater and an activated sludge, in a single reactor, with an electric current having a density of less than about 55 A/m², by means of at least one anode and at least one cathode that define therebetween an electrical zone for treating the mixture; exposing the mixture to an intermittent ON/OFF electrical exposure mode to the electric current in which an OFF period of time is about 1 to about 10 times longer than an ON period of time; and maintaining an adequate oxidation-reduction potential in the single reactor. Such processes allow for substantial removal of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus from the wastewater in the single reactor of various forms and for obtaining another mixture comprising a treated wastewater and solids.

The invention discloses a method for accelerating aerobic sludge granulation by the aid of charcoal. The method includes that pyridine degradation bacteria Rhizobium sp. NJUST18 and ordinary activated sludge are used as compound inocula for the aerobic granular sludge, the charcoal is used as a crystal nucleus for the aerobic granular sludge in a sequencing batch reactor form, and quick forming of the pyridine degradation aerobic granular sludge can be promoted. The method has the advantages that the aerobic granular sludge with a pyridine degradation function can grow by the aid of pyridine which is a unique carbon source and a unique nitrogen source, granules have regular shapes and are good in sedimentation after the cultivated granular sludge is mature, reaction systems are high in sludge concentration, the high-concentration pyridine can be degraded and is subjected to synchronous nitrosation, and the cultivation time of the aerobic granular sludge for treating wastewater difficult to biodegrade can be effectively shortened.

The invention discloses a magnetite-enhanced biological electrode coupled UASB (upflow anaerobic sludge bed/blanket) apparatus and an operation method.The apparatus comprises an upflow anaerobic biological reactor barrel and a biological electrode system, wherein a circular electrode is disposed in a upflow anaerobic biological reactor sludge layer, a graphite fiber brush anode is disposed in the center, and a graphite felt cathode is arranged around; a biological electrode is connected with a direct-current power supply outside a reactor body through a conductive copper wire; circuit current is monitored in real time through a universal meter connected outside the reactor bod.Direct electron transmission between microbes and the electrode is enhanced by adding the magnetite nanoparticles, and finally an anaerobic biological reactor is quickly started, sludge is granulated and productivity is improved.

The invention discloses an aquatic plant floating bed system for aerating and oxygenating by means of solar energy. The aquatic plant floating bed system comprises a floating bed and emergent aquatic plants, wherein a supporting connection device is arranged in the central position of the floating bed; a solar cell panel, an electric control cabinet and a micro power aeration pump are sequentially arranged on the supporting connection device from top to bottom; a geotextile protecting layer is arranged at the top of the floating bed; multiple groups of planting holes are formed in the floating bed; the emergent aquatic plants penetrate through the geotextile protecting layer and are planted in the planting holes; filler is vertically arranged at the bottom of the floating bed. According to the aquatic plant floating bed system disclosed by the invention, the solar energy is used as energy source supply for aerating, so that the activity of a water body is greatly improved, the dissolved oxygen concentration is increased, and a growing environment of aquatic animals is improved; moreover, by combining an ecological floating bed with solar aeration, the quality of the water body is treated by adopting a biological method; the plants are used for carrying out adsorption treatment on pollution, so that a water body environment is improved, and the effect of viewing scene is realized.

A wastewater advanced denitrification apparatus and method employing single-stage SBBR (sequencing batch biofilm reactor) short-cut nitrification anammox coupling with endogenous denitrification belong to the field of wastewater bio-treatment. Wastewater enters a single-stage SBBR short-cut nitrification coupled endogenous denitrification reactor through a water pump; in anaerobic stirring phase, phosphorus-accumulating bacteria and glycogen accumulating organisms make use of an inorganic carbon source in raw water to store internal carbon sources; in hypoxic aeration stirring phase, ammonia oxidizing bacteria convert partial NH4<+>-N in the raw water into NO2<->-H, part of NO2<->-H is subjected to autotrophic nitrogen removal with the rest NH4<+>-N in the raw water via anammox effect, and the other part of NO2<->-H and little NO3<->-H produced in anammox are utilized by the phosphorus-accumulating bacteria and glycogen accumulating organisms in the subsequent anoxic stirring phase to provide endogenous denitrification. According to the method, by coupled application of short-cut nitrification, anammox and endogenous denitrification to wastewater bio-treatment, it is possible to provide wastewater advanced denitrification based on energy saving, and full utilization of carbon sources.

A method and system for retrofitting an existing water treatment system having one or more biological reactor systems and one or more gravity clarifiers. To retrofit the existing water treatment system, the one or more gravity clarifiers of the existing water treatment system are converted to one or more biological reactors. In addition, one or more high rate clarifiers (HRCs) are added to the existing water treatment system. In some cases one or more high rate clarifiers are added downstream of the converted biological reactors, in other cases one or more HRCs is added upstream of the biological reactors, and in other cases a number of HRCs are added, upstream and downstream with respect to the biological reactors.

A compact and easily transportable temporary flush toilet can be installed where the toilet cannot be connected to a water supply system and no frequent maintenance is possible. The temporary toilet includes a toilet bowl, a flush water tank for storing flush water used to flush the toilet bowl, a sewage tank for storing sewage from the toilet bowl, a water vapor separator for separating water from gas containing water vapor vaporized from sewage in the sewage tank, an exhaust pipe through which gas is guided from the top of the sewage tank to the water vapor separator, and a distilled water pipe through which water separated from the gas in the water vapor separator is supplied to the flush water tank. Thus, storage of the sewage, microbial decomposition of waste, and evaporation of the sewage take place in the sewage tank alone.

The invention relates to a municipal wastewater treatment system (STAR) for forming a wastewater treatment plant (PTAR), characterized by the functional and structural relationship between the components thereof. The invention comprises seven treatment stages in the STAR and the arrangement thereof, including: an intake regulator box having a discharge outlet; a pretreatment stage consisting of solid separation screens and grit channels; and anaerobic biodigester; an up-flow anaerobic filter; drying beds; subsurface flow constructed wetlands; and a chlorine contact channel. The STAR and PTAR according to the invention are suitable for use in a single home, as well as for use by communities of approximately 5,000 (thousand) inhabitants, and their capacity can be increased to the extent that new elements are provided at each of the different steps, simply by adding and adapting modules, without having to replace the already operating elements.

The invention discloses a livestock breeding waste water treatment method. The method comprises the steps that a waste water treatment system comprising a methane tank, a solid-liquid separator, a regulating tank, a sand filter tank, a granule bacterium algae reaction tank and a sedimentation tank is built; in the granule bacterium algae reaction tank, under the condition suitable for culture, an IC internal circulation vortex flow is formed in the bacteria and algae reaction tank by changing the hydraulic condition, the action of the vortex flow enable microalgae and activated sludge to be mutually wrapped together, and bacteria and algae granule micelle which takes sludge as the core and is wrapped by the microalgae is formed finally. The granule bacterium algae system can greatly increase the biomass of the algae reaction tank, and the livestock breeding waste water treatment efficiency is improved; meanwhile, good settling performance is achieved, the advantages of rapid algae-water separation and the like can be achieved through an ordinary gravity sedimentation tank, and a good treatment effect on treating livestock breeding waste water which is high in nitrogen and phosphorus content is achieved.

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving wastewater having a first total organic carbon (TOC) at a wastewater treatment system comprising a reactor system, wherein the reactor system comprises an anaerobic moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) and an aerobic MBBR. The method further includes treating the wastewater in the anaerobic MBBR, wherein the anaerobic MBBR comprises first bio-carriers configured to degrade at least a portion of the first TOC in the wastewater to generate a first treated wastewater and biogas, wherein the first treated wastewater has a second TOC that is less than the first TOC. The method also includes providing the biogas to an external system.