A method of providing, maintaining and using a youthful added microbe population for the treatment of wastewater. A method to obtain Class A sludge without the need for disinfecting procedures.

A system and method for purifying domestic sewage using 1 cycle per day, which reduces constructive complexities, energy demand and avoids the emission of hydrogen sulfide into the environment, the system comprising: a reactor comprising at least two air diffusers located at the bottom of the reactor; a sludge outlet duct and a clarified water outlet duct; a feed pipe connected at one end to a pump submerged inside a pumping chamber and at the other end to a wastewater inlet located at the bottom of the reactor; a programmable logic control; a valve arrangement consisting of four valves connected to a blower, each valve being connected to one of: the sludge outlet duct, the clarified water outlet duct, and the at least two diffusers.

A method for the treatment of water, the method comprising the steps of anaerobic uptake and storage of at least a portion of the organic components in the water by a heterotrophic denitrifying biomass absorption of ammonium ions with an ammonium ion absorbent; and aerobic oxidation of the absorbed ammonium by a nitrifying biomass comprising ammonium oxidizing microorganisms, wherein the step of aerobic oxidation of the absorbed ammonium is preceded by the step of exposing at least a portion of the nitrifying biomass to atmospheric oxygen.

A water treatment system includes a plurality of tanks; a plurality of blow systems connected to tanks respectively; a blower unit configured to supply air to tanks through the air blow systems; and a control device configured to: calculate a pressure loss in each of the air blow systems; and control supply of water to be treated to each of the tanks, according to the calculated pressure losses.

The present invention provides a method of treating wastewater in a wastewater system. The wastewater system comprises a treatment plant comprising a treatment space and a sewer system comprising a sewer space. The treatment plant further comprises a treatment inlet for supplying wastewater to the treatment system from the sewer system. The method comprises the step of: providing a treatment parameter being significant for purification of wastewater in the treatment plant, determining an actual spare plant capacity indicating an amount of wastewater which can be supplied to the treatment space, and determining an actual spare wastewater storage volume indicating an amount of wastewater which can be retained in the sewer space. The amount of wastewater supplied through the treatment inlet to the treatment plant is varied based on the treatment parameter, the actual spare plant capacity, and the actual spare wastewater storage volume.

A data-knowledge driven multi-objective optimal control method for municipal wastewater treatment process belongs to the field of wastewater treatment. To balance the energy consumption and effluent quality, a data driven multi-objective optimization model, including energy consumption model and effluent quality model are established to obtain the nonlinear relationship along energy consumption, effluent quality and manipulated variables. Meanwhile, a multi-objective particle swarm optimization algorithm, based on evolutionary knowledge, is proposed to optimize the set-points of nitrate nitrogen and dissolved oxygen. Moreover, the proportional integral differential (PID) controller is designed to track the set-points. Then the effluent quality can be improved and the energy consumption can be reduced.

A portable and modular renewable energy microgeneration apparatus is disclosed that includes at least four modular units. The first modular unit includes a mixing tank and a chopper. The second modular unit includes a buffer tank, a liquor tank, and a pasteurization tank that pasteurizes waste that has been mixed with liquid from the liquor tank by the mixer, chopped into smaller sized components by the chopper, and pre-warmed by the buffer tank. The third modular unit includes a digestion tank that performs anaerobic digestion on pasteurized waste received from the pasteurization tank. And the fourth modular unit includes a gas storage tank that stores gas generated by the waste in at least one of the mixing tank, the chopper, the buffer tank, the liquor tank, the pasteurization tank, and the digestion tank. Each of the four modular units is both portable and modular.

A system and method for optimized industrial production using machine learning. The method includes creating a model defining dependencies among a plurality of parameters for an industrial production process, the plurality of parameters including a plurality of controlled parameters and a plurality of monitored parameters; training an agent via reinforcement learning based on iterative application of the model, wherein the agent is trained to determine new values for the plurality of controlled parameters based on current values of the plurality of monitored parameters in order to optimize the industrial production process with respect to at least one predetermined objective; and iteratively modifying, by the trained agent, current values of the plurality of controlled parameters in real-time during operation of the industrial production process.

A closed-loop system and method for heating of target contaminant zones having environmental contaminants of concern present in the groundwater and the soil by thermal conduction, and subsequent enhancements of physical, biological and chemical processes to attenuate, remove and degrade contaminants in the target contaminant treatment zones, is disclosed. The system and method collects solar or other heat and transfers the heat via a closed-loop and a set of borehole exchangers to subsurface soil in the proximity of and/or directly to the target contaminant treatment zones. The target contaminant treatment zone may comprise contaminated soil, contaminated groundwater in an aquifer, or industrial waste comprising water and/or solids. Solar collectors or heat exchangers capturing waste heat from industrial processes may be used as the heat source.

A closed-loop system and method for heating of target contaminant zones having environmental contaminants of concern present in the groundwater and the soil by thermal conduction, and subsequent enhancements of physical, biological and chemical processes to attenuate, remove and degrade contaminants in the target contaminant treatment zones, is disclosed. The system and method collects solar or other heat and transfers the heat via a closed-loop and a set of borehole exchangers to subsurface soil in the proximity of and/or directly to the target contaminant treatment zones. The target contaminant treatment zone may comprise contaminated soil, contaminated groundwater in an aquifer, or industrial waste comprising water and/or solids. Solar collectors or heat exchangers capturing waste heat from industrial processes may be used as the heat source.