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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 In one embodiment, the wastewater is withdrawn from a supply of wastewater to be treated, and the wastewater is delivered in an atomized manner to a vessel pressurized with gas to form gas-enriched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 present invention relates to membrane bioreactor (“MBR”) system that includes a mechanical membrane reciprocation system to reduce or eliminate membrane fouling. The disclosed MBR system can be operated with higher flux and lower fouling than MBR systems using air scouring. Furthermore the system can remove nitrogen and phosphorous with one RAS and one or no internal recirculation line. The membrane can be reciprocated by a low RPM motor connected to a pulley via belt to rotate rotor to convert rotational motion into reciprocating motion of membrane. Various mechanical means can also be employed to create the reciprocating motion.

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.

In some embodiments, a system may reduce contaminants in water. A system may include a biofilm in a container. The biofilm may be formed from one or more bacteria coupled to one or more substrates. The bacteria may be selected to maximize the reduction of contaminants in water. The system may include one or more bacteria generators to provide bacteria to the biofilm and / or one or more air sources to provide an air bubble stream to the container and / or the bacteria generator. In some embodiments, bacteria may be preserved in a starvation phase. Bacteria may be incubated until they reach a starvation phase. The bacteria may then be preserved as beads or immobilized on a substrate. The preserved bacteria may be used in a system for the reduction of contaminants in water.

The invention relates to a landfill leachate wastewater treatment system and a process thereof. The system comprises a collecting well, an adjusting tank, a filter, a multi-stage anoxia / aerobic pool and membrane bioreactor comprehensive treatment system, an advanced catalytic oxidization tower and a biological carbon filter. The treatment process has the following flows that: wastewater enters the adjusting tank to undergo the adjustment of water quality and water quantity in the adjusting tank; then, the wastewater enters the filter, the water out of the filter enters the multi-stage anoxia / aerobic pool and membrane bioreactor comprehensive treatment system to undergo biochemical treatment in the system, organic matters and ammonia nitrogen are removed, and the water out of the system enters the catalytic oxidization tower; in the presence of a catalyst, organic matters in the wastewater are oxidized by ozone, and the biodegradability is improved; and the water after catalytic oxidization enters the carbon filter, residual pollutants are further removed through cooperation of the aerobic oxidative degradation of a biomembrane on a filling material in the filter and the absorption of active carbon, and then the water out of the carbon filter can meet the national first grade emission standard or the emission standards of related industries.

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.

A wastewater treatment system is provided comprising a biological reactor having a separation subsystem, a suspension system and a membrane operating system. The separation subsystem is constructed and arranged to maintain adsorbent material in the biological reactor with a mixed liquor. The suspension system is positioned in the biological reactor and is constructed and arranged to maintain adsorbent material in suspension with mixed liquor. The membrane operating system is located downstream of the biological reactor and is constructed and arranged to receive treated mixed liquor from the biological reactor and discharge a membrane permeate. In addition, a wastewater treatment system is provided comprising a first biological reaction zone, a second biological reaction zone and a membrane operating system. The first biological reaction zone is constructed and arranged to receive and treat the wastewater. The second biological reaction zone includes a separation subsystem and is constructed and arranged to receive effluent from the first biological reaction zone. A suspension system for adsorbent material is provided in the second biological reaction zone. The membrane operating system is located downstream of the second biological reaction zone and is constructed and arranged to receive treated wastewater from the second biological reaction zone and discharge a membrane permeate.

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.

A human waste treatment system is disclosed that includes at least one waste receptacle such as an airline-style toilet, an anaerobic digester such as an induced bed reactor, and a gas conditioner. Human waste may be moved by a macerator pump. Inside the digester, bacteria digests organic solids to form biogas. The anaerobic digester may be operated at thermophilic temperatures to kill pathogenic bacteria in the waste and produce treated water. The gas conditioner purifies the biogas which may be used to power an electric generator. Treated water may be used to flush the system. The system may be mounted on a semi-truck trailer and transported. The system may be self-contained.

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 provides a method for treating high-concentration nitrate waste water and municipal sewage through denitrification anaerobic ammonium oxidation SBR, belonging to the field of sewage biotreatment. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, culturing and acclimating denitrifying bacteria population and anaerobic ammonium oxidation bacteria population which have inadequate denitrification characteristic, then inoculating anaerobic ammonium oxidation sludge and denitrifying sludge with high nitrite accumulation rate in the same reactor, leading nitrate waste water and municipal sewage to flow in denitrification anaerobic ammonium oxidation SBR reactor at a certain ratio, performing anaerobic ammonium oxidation to nitrite accumulated during reduction of nitrite and ammonium nitrogen in the municipal sewage to generate nitrogen gas and synchronously removing. According to the method, nitrate generated during anaerobic ammonium oxidation can be reduced through denitrifying bacteria without the condition of adding a carbon source, the nitrogen removal efficiency of a system can be improved, and the effective route for realizing sewage nitrogen removal with high efficiency and low energy consumption can be provided.

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.