The present disclosure pertains to a system configured to prepare and use prediction models for controlling contaminants of a liquid. Some embodiments may: sense, via a sensor, a magnified image of a sample of the liquid; identify at least one shape in the image; determine a relative predominance of microscopic life forms within at least a portion of the image; and generate a report indicating any required corrective action based on the identification and the determination.

A method of increasing operational efficiency of a power plant includes determining an average rate of accumulation of scale-forming compounds in a cooling water source, directing water from the cooling water source having a first concentration of scale forming compounds through a treatment system to produce a treated water having a lower concentration of scale-forming components than the first concentration by operating the treatment system with operating parameters selected such that a rate of removal of the scale-forming components from the water in the treatment system is greater than the average rate of accumulation of the scale-forming components, directing the treated water back into the cooling water source, and circulating water including the treated water from the cooling water source through a cooling system of the power plant.

Disclosed are an integrated dual circulation oxidization ditch apparatus for municipal wastewater and a treatment method. The apparatus comprises an anaerobic zone, an anoxic zone, an aerobic zone and a secondary sedimentation tank communicated in sequence. The anoxic zone comprises a first anoxic zone and a second anoxic zone. The aerobic zone comprises a first aerobic zone and a second aerobic zone, and a reflux pump is arranged between the anoxic zone and the aerobic zone. The anaerobic zone, the anoxic zone and the aerobic zone are internally provided with submersible mixers. Both the anoxic zone and the aerobic zone are internally provided with partition walls and guide walls, thereby forming circulation in each zone.

A cost-effective system and method dissolves gas, such as oxygen, into water in a manner that prevents gas bubble carry over by using a bubble capture system (BCS). The method further eliminates or minimizes turbulence at the suction and discharge of a pump using an energy dissipation header (EDH). The BCS can create a top-down flow that permits bubbles to rise faster than the velocity of the downward flow of water. The EDH can use a pipe design, such as a slotted pipe design, that permits a maximum system water flow. The technology can be applied to water bodies to mitigate eutrophication and may also be applicable in other fields, such as wastewater lift stations, fish farms, oil and gas industry, tidal applications with low flushing rates, and winter under ice oxygenation to prevent fish kills.

A flat ceramic membrane 1 has a plate-shaped porous support 21 made of ceramics and a filtration membrane 22 formed on an outer surface of the porous support 21. A plurality of water collection channels 2 where filtrate water obtained by permeation of water-to-be-treated through the filtration membrane 22 flows are formed inside the porous support 21. Further, a region where a distance between the water collection channels 2 is different is ensured inside the porous support 21.

A control method based on an adaptive neural network model for dissolved oxygen of an aeration system includes: obtaining related water quality monitoring data of a sewage treatment plant, and performing data preprocessing on the related water quality monitoring data; performing principal component analysis on the preprocessed related water quality monitoring data and a dissolved oxygen concentration of the aeration system through a principal component analysis method, and determining a water quality parameter with a highest rate of contribution to a principal component; taking the water quality parameter with the highest rate of contribution to the principal component, and predicting a dissolved oxygen concentration of the aeration system; and optimizing a dissolved oxygen predictive value obtained by means of the adaptive neural network model to obtain an optimal regulation value, and performing online regulation on a fuzzy control system of the adaptive neural network model.

A total nitrogen (TN) removal device for sewage and its operation method. The TN removal device includes a denitrification tank, a supplementary reaction zone filled with aerobic granular sludge and a sedimentation and separation zone. The supplementary reaction zone and the sedimentation and separation zone are arranged inside the denitrification tank, and communicated through a three-phase separator. The sedimentation and separation zone is located above the supplementary reaction zone. A top of the sedimentation and separation zone is greater than its bottom. A membrane aerated biofilm reactor (MABR) assembly is arranged in a space formed by outer walls of the sedimentation and separation zone and supplementary reaction zone and an inner chamber of the denitrification tank. A side wall of the denitrification tank is provided with a chemical oxygen demand (COD) detector and a nitrate nitrogen detector.

A bubble generator including a container having a side wall and a top wall defining a cavity. An insert is located within the cavity defining a gas path with a trap portion. The gas path being in communication with an exit in the container. The cavity including an opening receiving a gas accumulating within the cavity, the gas path allowing the accumulating gas to escape through the exit once the accumulating gas reaches a predetermined level proximate the trap portion.

A method of operating a sequencing batch reactor process includes introducing wastewater to be treated into the sequencing batch reactor and subjecting the wastewater to treatment in the sequencing batch reactor in an aerated anoxic mode in in which a quantity of oxygen is supplied at a level insufficient to meet a biological oxygen demand of the wastewater, but sufficient to cause simultaneous nitrification and denitrification reactions to occur in the wastewater.

The present invention relates to a high-precision, high-efficiency recirculation system for preserving multiple-density biomass and attached biofilm in wastewater treatment bioreactors, which is characterized in that it consists of a bioreactor tank in which a central recirculation duct is centrally and vertically disposed, said duct comprising a diffuser cone at the bottom thereof, close to the bottom of a baffle of the bioreactor, and an upper guide cone at the upper end thereof, wherein the central recirculation duct is designed for an inductor/nozzle to be inserted there into up to the limit of the upper wall of the bioreactor baffle, said parts forming together a central assembly containing, in vertical attitude, a drive shaft which comprises, at the upper end thereof, above the inductor/nozzle, sealing means for hermetic sealing at the upper wall of the bioreactor baffle, wherein the upper end of the drive shaft is coupled to a low-revolution motor reducer for rotating the drive shaft, which comprises one or more axial-type impellers, and wherein the lower end of the drive shaft is coupled to a hyperbolic impeller/mixer close to the bottom of the bioreactor baffle.