An apparatus for refractory organics conversion into biogas includes an anaerobic digester configured to be fed with organic material comprising refractory organics and to generate biogas and a digestate comprising at least a part of the refractory organics, wherein the apparatus comprises a device for a controlled partial oxidation of the refractory organics comprising an inlet configured to be fed with refractory organics and means configured to control the residence time of the refractory organics within the device for a controlled partial oxidation, so as to partially degrade refractory organics. A method for refractory organics conversion into biogas carried out using such an apparatus is also provided.

The present disclosure relates to an integrated wastewater treatment apparatus and method, the apparatus comprises a first reactor module, a second reactor module, a sedimentation module and a gas-liquid separation module, the first reactor module comprises a first reactor and an anoxic reaction zone, an aerobic reaction zone, a first gas-gathering pressurized layer, a first water inlet pipe and an aeration device; the second reactor module comprises a second reactor, a second water inlet pipe, an anaerobic reaction zone and a second gas-gathering pressurized layer; the sedimentation module comprises a third reactor and a water outlet pipe; the gas-liquid separation module comprises a gas-liquid separator, an exhaust pipe, a first riser pipe, a second riser pipe and a return pipe. The apparatus can give full play to the advantages of the autotrophic biological denitrification process, meet the biochemical treatment requirements of wastewater with low C/N ratio.

The present invention is directed to equipment, systems and methods for recovering nitrogen, potassium, phosphates and water from wastewater effluents. More particularly the invention discloses methods and equipments for treating waste streams to produce water that can be discharged to the environment and concentrated potassium ammonium struvite solid fertilizers.

An anammox reactor capable of improving nitrogen removal efficiency by maintaining activity of microorganisms, and a water treatment method using the anammox reactor are provided. The anammox reactor includes a raw water feed pipe through which raw water is supplied, a raw water discharge pipe through which raw water is discharged to an outside, and a first chamber configured to accommodate ammonium oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and anammox bacteria for performing an anammox process, wherein the raw water feed pipe and the raw water discharge pipe are configured to communicate with the first chamber.

A device and method for shortcut nitrogen removal and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria activity inhibition are disclosed herein. An embodiment of the present invention provides a hollow fiber diffuser comprising: a plurality of hollow fibers on which bacteria can be attached and grow; and an inlet capable of supplying gas to one sides of the plurality of hollow fibers, wherein the gas includes oxygen and carbon dioxide, nitrite can be produced by the oxygen, and the concentration of oxygen in the gas is adjusted by the oxygen and the carbon dioxide.

An apparatus for treating municipal sewage by anaerobic/aerobic/anoxic (AOA) [1] process via simultaneous endogenous partial [2] denitrification coupled with anammox in anoxic zone is disclosed. The apparatus mainly includes a raw water tank (1) for sewage, an AOA reactor (2) and a sedimentation tank (3), the sludge flows back from the bottom of the sedimentation tank (3) to the anoxic zone (2.4) and the anaerobic zone (2.2) respectively, and biofilm filler is added to the anoxic zone (2.4). The sewage enters the AOA reactor (2), and the intracellular carbon source is stored in the anaerobic zone (2.2) to remove the organic matter in the raw water. Then it enters the aerobic zone (2.3) for nitrification, and the generated nitrate-nitrogen enters the anoxic zone (2.4) for endogenous partial denitrification. The filler in the anoxic zone (2.4) uses the generated nitrite-nitrogen by endogenous partial denitrification and the remaining ammonia-nitrogen in the raw water to perform anammox reaction. The generated nitrate-nitrogen can be further removed by endogenous denitrification in the anoxic zone (2.4). Endogenous partial denitrification coupled with anammox is used for nitrogen removal in the anoxic zone (2.4), which can reduce the requirement of aeration in the aerobic zone (2.3) and the carbon sources in the anoxic zone (2.4), and suitable for low C/N ratio municipal sewage treatment. A method for treating municipal sewage by AOA process via endogenous partial denitrification coupled with anammox in anoxic zone is also provided.

A method for realizing heterotrophic and autotrophic coupling advanced nitrogen removal and simultaneous sludge reduction in an anaerobic-aerobic-anoxic sequencing batch reactor (AOA-SBR) is disclosed. Municipal sewage and sludge fermentation mixture is allowed to simultaneously enter into the AOA-SBR; in the anaerobic stage, the organic matter in the sewage and sludge fermentation mixture is converted into polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) and stored in the body; in the aerobic stage, the dissolved oxygen (DO) at 0.5˜1 mg/L is maintained by a real-time control, the aeration time is set for 1˜3 h, and when the mass concentration ratio of NO.sub.2.sup.−—N to NH.sub.4.sup.+—N is in a range from 1.5 to 2.0, the aeration is stopped, that is, ammonia-nitrogen is partially converted into nitrite-nitrogen through short-cut nitrification; in the anoxic stage, the remaining ammonia-nitrogen and nitrite-nitrogen undergo anaerobic ammonia oxidation (anammox), and meanwhile the remaining nitrite-nitrogen and nitrate-nitrogen generated by anammox is reduced by denitrifying bacteria to nitrogen to achieve advanced nitrogen removal. A related apparatus is also provided, which simultaneously realizes advanced nitrogen removal of sewage and reduction of sludge.

A method of treating wastewater is disclosed in which a flow equalization reactor is provided that includes at least one wastewater treatment zone. A first wastewater treatment process is performed in the at least one wastewater treatment zone, which can be switched to a second wastewater treatment process. The flow equalization reactor is designed with a variable liquid depth and volume that can operated as a mixed wastewater zone, an anaerobic reactor zone, an anoxic reactor zone or an aerobic reactor zone. The equalization reactor provides sufficient variable liquid depth and volume above a minimum liquid depth and residual volume to provide the necessary hydraulic flow equalization or surge volume to achieve a relatively constant effluent pumping rate or feed forward flow rate over 24 hours per day, seven days per week into the downstream biological treatment processes, clarifiers, filters, or disinfection units, etc.

Provided is a process comprising receiving overflow of wastewater influent from a clarifier basin in a clarifier effluent collection trough; receiving inflow of wastewater influent from the clarifier effluent collection trough in a filter influent flow inlet distribution channel; maintaining substantially constant liquid level in the filter influent inlet distribution channel; applying hydrostatic pressure to push wastewater influent from the filter influent flow inlet distribution channel into an upflow backwash filter contusing denitrifying biomass or deammonification biomass; backwashing the backwash filter with a gas lift backwash flow; returning filter reject backwash wastewater from rejection compartment of the filter through denitrifying bacteria or deammonification biomass recycle return line to a location upstream of the filter; and recycling denitrifying bacteria or deammonification biomass from denitrifying bacteria or deammonification biomass recycle return line to at least one of the clarifier effluent collection trough, filter influent flocculation tank, or filter influent flow distribution channel.

A multi-stage system comprising a digester, a bioreactor, a scrubber, a biofilter, and a membrane filter extracts and purifies biogas from a wastewater feed. The digester separates raw biogas from wastewater, the wastewater is then purified with a three-stage bacterial process in a bioreactor. The scrubber receives raw biogas from the digester under pressure, dissolving waste gases and purifying the methane, which can be further condensed and purified in the membrane filter. The bioreactor receives waste gases from the scrubber and membrane filter, with the ammonia portion of the waste gases rising through water from the bioreactor and being converted by annamox bacteria into nitrogen gas. The multiply recycled gas and water feeds produce a biogas having high purity and reduced atmospheric emissions of waste gases.