3473 results about "Municipal sewage" patented technology

In the processes for treating municipal sewage and storm water containing biosolids to discharge standards, biosolids, even after dewatering, contain typically about 80% water bound in the dead cells of the biosolids, which gives biosolids a negative heating value. It can be incinerated only at the expense of purchased fuel. Biosolids are heated to a temperature at which their cell structure is destroyed and, preferably, at which carbon dioxide is split off to lower the oxygen content of the biosolids. The resulting char is not hydrophilic, and it can be efficiently dewatered and / or dried and is a viable renewable fuel. This renewable fuel can be supplemented by also charging conventional biomass (yard and crop waste, etc.) in the same or in parallel facilities. Similarly, non-renewable hydrophilic fuels can be so processed in conjunction with the processing of biosolids to further augment the energy supply.

Conversion of waste and other organic feedstock into sustainable energy, feed, fertilizer, and other useful products of reliable purities is accomplished using water, heat, and pressure. More specifically, the invention provides methods and apparatus that handle mixed streams of various feedstocks, e.g. agricultural waste, biological waste, municipal solid waste, municipal sewage sludge, and shredder residue, to yield gas, oil, specialty chemicals, and carbon solids that can be used as is or are further processed. Useful products can be diverted at various points of the process or internalized to enhance the efficiency of the system.

Mechanically and biologically stable briquettes and pellets are obtained from either municipal solid waste (MSW), Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) or municipal sewage sludge and their combination for purposes of disposing said briquettes and pellets as fuel in waste-to-energy processes such as the one described herein or to form geometric aggregates with such briquettes for their disposal at landfill sites. The use of binding material is not required whereas fuel additives such as crushed coal and petroleum residues may be added to enhance fuel performance but are not needed to improve waste processing or product stability and mechanical properties.

The present invention relates to the conversion of waste and low-value materials into useful products in reliable purities in a cost-effective and energy-efficient manner. More specifially, the invention provides processes that can handle mixed streams of various feedstocks, e.g. shredder residue, offal, animal manures, municipal sewage sludge, tires, and plastics, that otherwise have little commercial value, to useful products including gas, oil, specialty chemicals, and carbon solids. The process subjects the feedstock to heat and pressure, separates out various components, then further applies heat and pressure to one or more of those components, according to processes based on thermal or catalytic cracking. The invention further comprises an apparatus for performing a multi-stage process of converting waste materials into useful materials, and at least one oil product that arises from the process. Useful products can also be obtained or derived from materials diverted at different points of the process.

The invention relates to a sludge drying and burning technique and its system devices, applying to the handling of active sludge in urban sewage treatment plants, its process flows through: wet sludge stock house, measuring bin, sludge mixer, sludge dryer, granular splitter, cooler, drying products storage bin, incinerator, smoke gas cleaning devices, which is characterized by: said incinerator is bubbling fluid bed incinerator with coal economizer, air heater fixed in its end part, high-heat smoke gas generated by burning is used to heat heat-conducting oil and cool air individually, and heat-conducting oil after being heated is transferred to sludge dryer through the circulating pump to dry wet-sludge. The invention is characterized by: take heat-conducting oil as heating medium, use the heat generated by burning dry sludge to heat heat-conducting oil and then dry wet-sludge to make full use of resources; the volume-reducing quantity after drying and burning could reach over 90%; the percentage of desulphurization in incinerator could reach 75% as a result of adopting two stage technology of sulfur removal, and the gross percentage of desulphurization meets national environmental legislation requirements. The invention accomplishes the resources, volume reduction, and innocence of sludge.

The invention discloses a method for quickly starting a completely autotrophic nitrogen removal over nitrite process on sewage on the conditions of constant temperature and low ammonia nitrogen and belongs to the field of city sewage treatment and reutilization. The completely autotrophic nitrogen removal over nitrite (CANON) process is started in a biological filter tank reactor and comprises the following steps: firstly, nitrifying sludge by using an inoculating part, and performing aerobic nitrification start with sufficient oxygen supply to build a nitrosobacteria-dominated and nitrobacterium-dominated microorganism system; inhibiting the growth of nitrobacterium through intermittent aeration / anaerobism and enriching anaerobic ammonium oxidation bacteria; and finally, performing continuous aeration, controlling ammonia nitrogen to be oxidized to a stage of nitrous acid through restrictive oxygen supply, and optimizing microenvironment where nitrosobacteria and anaerobic ammonium oxidation bacteria coexist so as to successfully start the CANON process. By using the method, the problem that the growth enrichment of the anaerobic ammonium oxidation bacteria is slower for a long term can be solved; moreover, the starting way is simple and feasible, and the difficulty of the start of a single-stage autotrophic nitrogen removal system is reduced; and therefore, a method is provided to start the CANON process on stimulated waste water on the conditions of constant temperature and low ammonia nitrogen.

The present invention addresses the processing of waste and low-value products to produce useful materials in reliable purities and compositions, at acceptable cost, and with high energy efficiency. In particular, the invention comprises a multi-stage process that converts various feedstocks such as offal, animal manures, municipal sewage sludge, that otherwise have little commercial value, to useful materials including gas, oil, specialty chemicals, and carbon solids. The process subjects the feedstock to heat and pressure in a reducing environment accomplished by controlled addition of sulfur and sodium, separates out various components, then further applies heat and pressure to one or more of those components. The invention further comprises an apparatus for performing a multi-stage process of converting waste products into useful materials, and at least one oil product that arises from the process.

The present invention addresses the processing of waste and low-value products that contain bone material to produce useful materials in reliable purities and compositions, at acceptable cost, and with high energy efficiency. In particular, the invention comprises a process that converts various feedstocks such as offal, animal manures, and municipal sewage sludge, to useful materials including gas, oil, specialty chemicals, and carbon solids. The process heats the feedstock in order to breakdown proteins and separate organic material from bone material, applies further heat and pressure to the resulting liquid mixture, separates out various components, then further applies heat and pressure to one or more of those components. The invention further comprises an apparatus for performing a process of converting waste products into useful materials, and an oil product that arises from the process.

The present invention relates to the conversion of waste and low-value materials into useful products in reliable purities in a cost-effective and energy-efficient manner. More specifially, the invention provides processes that can handle mixed streams of various feedstocks, e.g. shredder residue, offal, animal manures, municipal sewage sludge, tires, and plastics, that otherwise have little commercial value, to useful products including gas, oil, specialty chemicals, and carbon solids. The process subjects the feedstock to heat and pressure, separates out various components, then further applies heat and pressure to one or more of those components, according to processes based on thermal or catalytic cracking. The invention further comprises an apparatus for performing a multi-stage process of converting waste materials into useful materials, and at least one oil product that arises from the process. Useful products can also be obtained or derived from materials diverted at different points of the process.

The present invention includes an apparatus for separating particulates from a fluid in a suspension, comprising: a housing defining a frusto-conically shaped inner chamber with an inner wall, an inlet and a first outlet communicating with the chamber, and a second outlet; and a spinning assembly with a hollow interior mounted in the chamber, the assembly being shaped to define an annular gap with the chamber inner wall, the hollow interior communicating with the second outlet, and the hollow interior communicating with the annular gap for flow of fluid materials from the gap into the interior and out of the second outlet in response to rotation of the spinning assembly. The separator finds application in the preparation of waste products such as municipal sewage sludge for processes that produce useful materials including gas, oil, specialty chemicals, fertilizer, and carbon solids, in reliable purities and compositions, and with high energy efficiency.

The present invention discloses one kind of haydite produced with dewatered sludge, fly ash and clay as material and its production process, and belongs to the field of environment technology. The haydite is produced dewatered sludge, fly ash and clay as material, and through mixing and sintering at gradually raised temperature. It is yellow or brown spherical solid in the bulk specific weight of 650-750 kg / cu m, granular specific weight of 1050-1150 kg / cu m, water absorption of 5.80-10.8 %, and specific surface area of 2.29-5.56 sq m / g. The production process is simple and low in cost, and the haydite has light weight, high strength, small water absorption, great specific surface area and other features. The haydite has wide use in building, environment protection, metallurgy, chemical industry, and other industry.

Biological nutrient removal (BNR) in municipal wastewater treatment to remove carbonaceous substrates, nutrients and phosphorus, has recently become increasingly popular worldwide due to increasingly stringent regulations. Biological fluidized bed (BFB) technology, which could be potentially used for BNR processes, can provide some advantages such as high efficiency and compact structure. This present invention incorporates the fixed-film biological fluidized bed technology with the biological nutrient removal in a liquid-solid circulating fluidized bed, which has achieved the simultaneous elimination of organic carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus, in a very efficient manner and with very compact space requirements. The BNR-LSCFB has two fluidized beds, running as anoxic / anaerobic and aerobic processes to accomplish simultaneous nitrification and denitrification and to remove carbonaceous substrates, nutrients and phosphorus, with continuous liquid and solids recirculation through the anoxic / anaerobic bed and the aerobic bed. The new BNR-LSCFB system is not only an excellent alternative for conventional activated sludge type BNR technologies but is also capable of processing much higher loadings and suitable for industrial applications.

The invention discloses a device and a method for nitrogen and phosphorus removal for low CN ratio urban sewage through nitrosation and anaerobic ammonia oxidation coupling denitrifying phosphorus removal intensification, and belongs to the field of biological sewage treatment. The device comprises an urban sewage raw water tank, a denitrifying phosphorus removal reactor, an adjusting water tank, a sedimentation tank, and an integrated partial nitrification and anaerobic ammonia oxidation reactor; when the urban sewage enters the denitrifying phosphorus removal reactor, phosphorus-accumulating bacteria utilizes organic carbon source in the urban sewage for anaerobic phosphorus release, sedimentation and water drainage are performed, the amount of output water is adjusted by the adjusting water tank, then the output water enters the integrated partial nitrification and anaerobic ammonia oxidation reactor, contained NH4<+>-N is converted into N2 to be effectively removed through partial nitrification and anaerobic ammonia oxidation, contained PO4 <3-> and a small amount of NO3<->-N produced in the anaerobic ammonia oxidation flow back with the output water to the denitrifying phosphorus removal reactor for denitrifying phosphorus removal, and then micro-aeration is carried out for a period of time. The method reduces oxygen consumption and energy consumption, improves the nitrogen and phosphorus removal rate, and avoids the problem of insufficient carbon source.

Disclosed is a quick startup method of an urban sewage anaerobic ammonium oxidation bioreactor, which belongs to the fields of urban sewage disposal and resource utilization. The method aims to solve the problems of high energy and material consumption, and difficult startup of the anaerobic ammonium oxidation process applied to the urban sewage denitrogenation treatment of the current urban sewage biological denitrogenation method. The method comprises: adopting a biomembrane filter chamber system under normal temperature, directly inoculating anaerobic ammonium oxidation bacteria, making the biomembrane filter chamber system adapt to the acclimation and amplification environment of anaerobic ammonium oxidation bacteria through adjusting the equipment operation parameters of the reactor, and rapidly realizing the successful startup of the urban sewage anaerobic ammonium oxidation biological autotrophic denitrogenation reactor. The method applies a new discovery in science of quick startup of the reactor implementing a simple process of anaerobic ammonium oxidation biological autotrophic denitrogenation to the high-efficiency and low-consumption denitrogenation treatment of urban domestic sewage for the first time, and has the advantages of short startup period of the reactor, stable system operation, excellent effects of sewage disposal and low cost.

The invention discloses a low-energy-consumption low-carbon-emission economical energy-saving urban sewage treatment method. The method comprises the steps that: 1, the to-be-treated wastewater is collected by a sewage pipe network and then is filtered by lattices, and is lifted by a pump to enter a pulse water distribution pot of a novel efficient turn-back anaerobic biochemical pool (ABR); 2, the swage subjected to the treatment in step 1 flows into a circulation-flow biological oxidization pool; 3 the effluent water from the step 2 flows into an artificial reinforced biological contact oxidization pool reconstructed by a water body from natural tunnels and reservoirs; and 4, the effluent water from the step 2 or the step 3 flows into constructed wetlands. After the sewage is treated by the above steps, the most pollutants in the water are effectively removed and the treated effluent water reaches the standard first-grade A in GB 18918-2002 ''Discharge standard of pollutants for municipal sewage treatment plant''. The energy-saving sewage treatment purification process with low cost, low energy consumption, low carbon emission and low operating cost is particularly suitable for the sewage treatment in small towns or rural areas.

The invention discloses porous phosphorus removing ceramic granules with a function of slowly releasing an alkali and a preparation method thereof. The prepared ceramic granules are an environmental material for efficiently removing phosphorus from municipal sewage and industrial wastewater. Based on the basic chemical properties of the phosphorus in water and a phosphorus removing mechanism by chemical absorption, the preparation method of the ceramic granules comprises the following steps of: mixing 20 to 40 mass percent of ordinary portland cement (42.5 level), 10 to 20 mass percent of bentonite, 10 to 20 mass percent of fly ash, 10 to 15 mass percent of calcium oxide, 15 to 25 mass percent of nitrocellulose, 14 to 30 mass percent of xonotlite fiber particle and 0.1 to 0.5 mass percent of pore-creating agent; adding water for stirring the mixture according to a water-solid ratio of 0.35 to 0.45; granulating the mixture into granules with required grain sizes; and after the granules are foamed and solidified, curing the granules by using high-temperature steam to obtain the ceramic granules. The method has the advantages of simple preparation process, readily available raw materials, low cost and wide application prospect in the field of the removing of the phosphorus in water bodies. The prepared ceramic granules have the characteristics of capacity of slowly releasing the alkalis, silicic and calcareous textures, porosity, capacity of continuously and efficiently absorbing and removing the phosphorus and suitability for phosphorus removing systems of the municipal sewage and the industrial wastewater.

This invention is directed to systems, devices and methods for modifying the process of producing dried biosolids pellets or granules into beneficiated inorganically-augmented bioorganic fertilizer. The present invention describes a method to beneficiate heat-dried biosolids or sludge pellets or granules as presently manufactured by municipalities or companies from a) dewatered municipal wastewater biosolids or sludges within the municipal wastewater treatment plant heat-dried biosolids production facility or from b) finished dry heat dried biosolids pellets or granules in a separate manufacturing facility from the municipal wastewater treatment plant to produce a fertilizer containing sufficient organic and inorganic plant nutrients to be valuable and saleable into the commercial agricultural industry. The present invention describes beneficiation methods to increase the plant nutrient content to a level which permits the finished beneficiated dried biosolids pellet or granule product to compete in the commercial agricultural fertilizer marketplace and also to reduce the odors associated with traditionally-produced heat dried biosolids.

The invention discloses a biological disposing method of waste water through coupling the anaerobic ammonoxidation and methanation denitrification, which is characterized by the following: inoculating the particle sludge with methanation, denitrification and anaerobic ammonoxidation activity in the expansion grain sludge bed (EGSB); inoculating aerobic ammonoxidation bacteria in the biological aerating filter (BAF) or SHARON technique or SBR reactor; connecting the EGSB reactor and BAF or SHARON technique or SBR reactor; realizing the biological disposal of waste water through controlling pH value, temperature, dissolved oxygen, external reflow rate, load velocity, oxidizing reducing potential and organic COD density, ammonia nitrogen density.

This invention is directed to systems, devices and methods for modifying the process of producing dried biosolids pellets or granules into beneficiated inorganically-augmented bioorganic fertilizer. The present invention describes a method to beneficiate heat-dried biosolids or sludge pellets or granules as presently manufactured by municipalities or companies from a) dewatered municipal wastewater biosolids or sludges within the municipal wastewater treatment plant heat-dried biosolids production facility or from b) finished dry heat dried biosolids pellets or granules in a separate manufacturing facility from the municipal wastewater treatment plant to produce a fertilizer containing sufficient organic and inorganic plant nutrients to be valuable and saleable into the commercial agricultural industry. The present invention describes beneficiation methods to increase the plant nutrient content to a level which permits the finished beneficiated dried biosolids pellet or granule product to compete in the commercial agricultural fertilizer marketplace and also to reduce the odors associated with traditionally-produced heat dried biosolids.

A rapid starting method of a membrane bioreactor completely-autotrophic nitrogen removal technology belongs to the municipal sewage processing and recycling fields. The starting method of a completely-autotrophic nitrogen removal technology in a membrane bioreactor (MBR) comprises the following steps: inoculating nitrated sludge of the aeration tank of a municipal sewage plant, and recovering the activities of sludge at normal temperature under low ammonia nitrogen of inlet water; reducing the aeration rate and gradually increasing the ammonia nitrogen concentration to successfully enrich ammonia oxidizing bacteria; and reducing the aeration rate, reducing DO, and inducing anaerobic ammonia oxidizing bacteria to successfully start the completely-autotrophic nitrogen removal technology. Problems comprising slow starting and strict sludge inoculation requirement of a completely-autotrophic nitrogen removal technology are solved in the invention, and the rapid starting method of the shortcut nitration in the MBR realizes the efficient ammonia nitrogen removal, and provides a way for the long-term efficient and stable running of the shortcut nitration in the MBR.

The invention discloses a biological drying method for treating dewatered sludge of an urban sewage plant, and belongs to the technical field of solid waste treatment. The method comprises the following steps: adding an alkaline cracking agent into the dewatered sludge, uniformly mixing, adding a conditioning agent, and adding an inoculating agent for inoculation or utilizing a biological drying finished product for reflux inoculation; after uniformly stirring the mixture, placing the mixture in a biological drying reactor, and introducing residual heat, wherein the temperature of hot wind is between 80 and 120 DEG C, the ventilation amount of each 1kg of mixture is between 15 and 150 L / h, and the temperature of the reactor is between 50 and 60 DEG C; connecting a hot wind outlet to a gas drier, removing moisture, and treating and discharging residual gas; and performing once mechanical stirring for 3 to 5 minutes per hour, and treating 3 to 5 days to obtain the treated sludge. The residual heat adopted by the method has wide source; a drying product can be used for fueling, fertilizing, preparing a soil modifying agent or directly dumped; the drying time is remarkably reduced; and the biological drying method has the advantages of simple technology, low cost, economy and high efficiency.

Production of active carbon by mud in urban sewage treatment plant is carried out by: 1. drying mud in sewage treatment plant added 0.5-3% additive, decreasing mud water ratio 10%; 2. taking zinc chloride with concentration 20-60% as activator solution, immersing for 12-48hrs with weight ratio of mud and activator 1:1-3, and drying 20-50mins under 105deg.C; 3. adding 5-30% saw dust, shell and kernel as carburant; 4. mixing, heating to 500-800deg.C in furnace, and carbonizing activating with carbonizing time 15-50mins; 5. cooling, washing, and drying to obtain active carbon. It achieves lower urban mud discharge, to decrease production cost and to prevent secondary pollution.

The invention discloses an urban sewage treatment system and purification method and belongs to the technical field of sewage treatment. The sewage treatment and purification method comprises the steps of collection, physical precipitation, chemical precipitation, anaerobic biological treatment, anoxic biological treatment, aerobic biological treatment, adsorption, disinfection, ultrafiltration membrane filtration and sludge treatment in sequence. According to the method, a physical precipitation method, a chemical precipitation method and a biological purification method are used comprehensively to perform step-by-step classification treatment on different pollutants, the purification efficiency is high, the effluent quality is good, the nitrogen and phosphorus treatment capacity is higher, operation and maintenance are convenient, management is simple, and popularization and use can be realized.

The invention relates to the technical field of sewage treatment and particularly relates to an A3 / O-MBBR (Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor) integrated sewage treatment device and an A3 / O-MBBR integrated sewage treatment method. According to the device provided by the invention, a sewage backflow mechanism, a nitrification liquor backflow mechanism and an anaerobic liquor backflow mechanism are arranged and suspended filler is filled in an aerobic tank, so that the integrated sewage treatment device has a good effect for treating nitrogen and phosphorus in sewage and is high in treatment efficiency, compact in structure and small in occupied area. In addition, by virtue of optimizing a settling pond structure in the integrated sewage treatment device, the settling effect of the settling pond is improved, and the sludge floatation phenomenon and the content of suspended solids in effluent can be remarkably reduced. After sewage is treated by the integrated sewage treatment device provided by the invention, the effluent can reach the level A of first class stand of pollution discharge standard for municipal sewage treatment plant (GB18918-2002).

The invention provides a process and method for denitrification and phosphorus removal of municipal sewage by half shortcut nitrification and anaerobic ammonium oxidation, which belongs to the technical field of sewage biological treatment. The process comprises an untreated water tank, a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) for removing organic matters, a first regulating water tank, a half shortcut nitrification SBR, a second regulating water tank and an autotrophic denitrification upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor sequentially connected in series. Sludge is separated according to sludge age, which avoids an influence of rapid propagation of heterotrophic bacteria to autotrophic denitrification flora; and a nitrification system adopts half shortcut nitrification, which stably maintains shortcut more easily, ensures the nitrosification rate of the nitrification system, and provides guarantee for denitrification stability of the system. The anaerobic ammonium oxidation technique is applied to deep denitrification treatment of domestic sewage, which reduces the oxygen consumption by 60% compared with the conventional denitrification method, is free of additional carbon sources and neutralizers, and realizes high-efficiency low-energy consumption municipal sewage treatment.

The invention belongs to the technical field of the treatment of municipal sewage, and discloses a process and a device for treating sewage through denitrification and dephosphorization by an anaerobic-anoxic-oxic-anoxic (AAOA) plus membrane bioreactor (MBR) process. A rear anoxic tank is arranged on the basis of the traditional anaerobic-anoxic-oxic (A<2> / O) process flow; meanwhile, a membrane separation technology is used for substituting two sedimentation units of sedimentation tanks; according to the process, pre-treated sewage flows into an anaerobic tank, an anoxic tank and the rear anoxic tank respectively; and the sewage flows into an MBR tank through the anaerobic tank, the anoxic tank, an aerobic tank and the rear anoxic tank, is filtered by an MBR membrane component and is drained. By the process for treating the sewage, a carbon source in the sewage can be efficiently utilized by arranging the rear anoxic tank and changing influent and reflux modes, so that the denitrification and dephosphorization efficiency of the sewage is improved; and meanwhile, the membrane separation technology is used for increasing the concentration of activated sludge in the process for treating the sewage so as to realize the high-efficiency separation of mud and water in the sewage, so that the problems that the conventional process for treating the sewage is high in energy consumption, the floor area is large, and pollutants such as nitrogen, phosphorus and the like cannot be efficiently removed are solved. The water quality of effluent treated by the method meets the requirements of I-class A criteria of Integrated Wastewater Discharge Standard (GB 8978-1996).

The invention provides a technology and a method for treating urban sewage by three-section short-cut nitrification / anaerobic ammonia oxidation, and belongs to the technical field of biological treatment of sewage. A raw water tank, an organic substance removal sequencing batch reactor (SBR), a first regulating water tank, a short-cut nitrification SBR (provided with an on-line monitoring and feedback control system), a second regulating water tank and an autotrophic nitrogen removal up-flow anaerobic sludge bed / blanket (UASB) reactor are sequentially connected in series in the technology; and the sludge is separated according to the sludge age, so that the contradiction between denitrification and phosphorus removal sludge age is solved. By applying the real-time control technology of the short-cut nitrification SBR to the autotrophic nitrogen removal technology, the problems that the half short-cut of low ammonia nitrogen short-cut nitrification in continuous flow is difficult to maintain, the concentration ratio of ammonia nitrogen to nitrous in the effluent is difficult to control and the like are solved. By successfully applying the anaerobic ammonia oxidation technology todeep denitrification treatment of the domestic sewage, urban sewage treatment with high efficiency and low energy consumption is realized.