A reactor for treating water, the reactor comprising a buoyant structure for supporting at least one cell for suspension in a body of water in use, wherein each cell is removeably attachable to the buoyant structure and is arranged to house biomedia. A water treatment system comprising the reactor in a body of water. A method of treating water comprising passing water to be treated through the reactor in a body of water.

A waste water treatment includes a biological filtration tank, a nitritation tank, and an anammox tank. The biological filtration tank performs biological filtration as a pretreatment process with regard to influent waste water and removes solids and organic matters. The nitritation tank performs a nitritation process with regard to waste water flowing from the biological filtration tank and supplies an electron acceptor needed for removing the organic matter in the biological filtration tank by returning some of the waste water back to the biological filtration tank. The anammox tank performs an anaerobic ammonium oxidizing process with regard to the waste water received from the biological filtration tank and the nitritation tank.

Described herein are attached growth reactor systems which increase nitrifying bacteria biomass through a variety of means during warm weather. As a consequence, the attached growth reactor system contains sufficient nitrifying bacteria biomass to remove ammonia from wastewater in cold to moderate climates. In one example, there are two attached growth reactors into which wastewater is distributed discontinuously. Specifically, wastewater is transferred to the first attached growth reactor for a first period of time and then is transferred to the second attached growth reactor for a second period of time during warm weather which effectively doubles the nitrifying bacteria biomass in the system. During cold weather, approximately half of the wastewater is applied to each reactor simultaneously.

The present invention relates to a wastewater treatment apparatus for shortcut nitrogen removal using anaerobic ammonium oxidation (ANAMMOX) and partial nitritation using ammonium oxidizing bacteria (AOB) granules. High-purity AOB granules are formed by means of AOB predominance using a side stream generated during a sludge treatment process. Moreover, the formed AOB granules are supplied to a partial nitritation tank (130) of a main treatment process and thus the partial nitritation is efficiently performed and nitrogen is quickly removed, and thus oxygen and an organic material is reduced compared to an existing method.

An organic wastewater treatment device includes a biological treatment tank in which biological treatment units are connected in series along a flow of organic wastewater. Each biological treatment unit has a pair of an anoxic tank disposed on an upstream side, and an aerobic tank disposed on a downstream side in which a membrane separation device is immersed in activated sludge. The activated sludge returns from a most downstream-side aerobic tank to a most upstream-side anoxic tank through a sludge return path. Whether to stop an operating membrane separation device and whether to start a stopped membrane separation device are determined for each biological treatment unit based on at least one of an inflow amount of the organic wastewater, a tank water level, a transmembrane pressure difference of each membrane separation device, a T-N concentration of the treated water, and an NH3-N concentration of the treated water as an index.

A septic tank system includes a multiple compartmented (or chambered) supplemental tank. The supplemental tank has a cover/lid with a plurality of strategically situated access holes (both small and large ports) for servicing the various chambers from above ground.

Disclosed are various embodiments for measuring ionic activity by quantifying total dissolved solids (TDS) concentration in wastewater. In some embodiments, ionic activity of wastewater is monitored by quantifying the total dissolved solids concentration, which can be used for determining the ammonia reduction progress through nitrification and the luxurious phosphorous uptake process reaction and/or the reaction progress of soluble phosphorous species and reactive ions, including one or more alkali and alkaline-earth species and/or soluble metals species, to form non-soluble ionic phosphorous precipitate during biological activated wastewater processes and digester biosolids treatment processes.

The system comprises a pre-denitrification unit, an anaerobic ammonia oxidation unit, an advanced denitrification unit and a Fenton unit. The pre-denitrification unit is configured for hydrolyzing suspended pollutants and soluble organic matters in wastewater into organic acids, oxidizing ammonia nitrogen into nitrate, and finally converting the nitrate into nitrogen and absorbing phosphorus. The anaerobic ammonia oxidation unit is configured for converting a part of ammonia nitrogen in the wastewater into nitrite nitrogen through short-cut nitrifying bacteria and reacting the ammonia nitrogen with the nitrite nitrogen through anaerobic ammonia oxidation bacteria to generate nitrogen. The advanced denitrification unit is configured for reducing nitrate nitrogen into nitrogen through a carbon source and removing residual ammonia nitrogen, COD.sub.Cr and BOD.sub.5. The Fenton unit is configured for removing refractory organic matters and metal ions and adjusting the pH value of discharged water, so that the discharged water reaches the standard.

An apparatus for treating waste water including: a first flocculation tank to which a first flocculant is provided to produce a first flocculated material in which fluorine in waste water introduced from a waste water storage part is coagulated; a second flocculation tank to which a second flocculant and carbon dioxide are provided to produce a second flocculated material in which the first flocculated material and residual fluorine in first outflow water introduced from the first flocculation tank are flocculated; a third flocculation tank to which a third flocculant is provided to produce a third flocculated material in which the first flocculated material and the second flocculated material in second outflow water introduced from the second flocculation tank are flocculated; a first sedimentation tank in which third outflow water introduced from the third flocculation tank is solid-liquid separated into first sludge containing the third flocculated material and first supernatant water; a nitrification tank in which alkalinity is provided by a carbonate supplied from the carbon dioxide, and ammoniacal nitrogen in the first supernatant water introduced from the first sedimentation tank is oxidized by nitrifying microorganisms; and a second sedimentation tank in which fourth outflow water introduced from the nitrification tank is solid-liquid separated into second sludge and second supernatant water.

Disclosed are a method and device for realizing advanced nitrogen removal of mature landfill leachate and sludge reduction by using sludge fermentation products as carbon source, belonging to the field of biological treatment of sludge of high ammonia nitrogen wastewater. The mature landfill leachate first enters a PNA-SBR, the reactor operates in an anoxic/anaerobic/oxic (A/A/O) mode, denitrification is performed at an anoxic state; then anaerobic ammonia oxidation is performed at an anaerobic stage to remove part of ammonia nitrogen and nitrite nitrogen; partial nitrification is performed at an oxic stage to remove the ammonia nitrogen; discharged water is pumped into a DN-SBR, meanwhile, an excess sludge fermentation mixture is added, the reactor operates in an anoxic/anaerobic/oxic (A/A/O) mode, organic matters in the sludge fermentation mixture are used for denitrification at an anoxic stage, and meanwhile, microorganisms store an inner carbon source; ammonia nitrogen brought by the fermentation mixture is removed at an anaerobic stage; and denitrification is performed through the inner carbon source at an oxic stage. The remarkable sludge reduction effect is achieved while a removal rate of TN achieves 96.0%, and the method and the device are suitable for advanced removal of the high ammonia nitrogen wastewater.