Wastewater treatment plants and processes for treating wastewater are described. The wastewater treatment plant utilizes channel plug flow dynamics with attached growth media and pure oxygen or mixtures of pure oxygen and compressed air.

A bioreactor for a water treatment system includes a tank configured to receive an influent liquid, a separator structure positioned in the tank, the separator structure having a frustoconical shape and defining a downwardly-facing opening proximal to or at a bottom of the separator structure, an interior of the separator structure being in communication with the tank, external to the separator structure, at least via the opening, an aeration vent positioned proximal to a bottom of the tank and configured to direct air into the tank, but not directly into the interior of the separator structure, and an effluent outlet communicating with the interior of in the separator structure, proximal to a top of the separator structure, a relatively clean effluent liquid, in comparison to the influent liquid in the tank, exiting from the separator structure via the effluent outlet.

A device including a housing having a first side, a second side opposed to the first side, and a wall disposed between the first side and the second side. The wall forms at least a partially enclosed space inside the housing. The device also includes a membrane mounted to the wall inside the housing. The device also includes a drop pipe disposed inside the housing and through or around the membrane, the drop pipe having a proximal end and a distal end, the distal end being closer to the second side than the proximal end. The device also includes a diffuser connected to the distal end of the drop pipe.

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 small sewage treatment plant comprises a first sewage tank in which a preliminary clarification takes place due to the sinking of solid particles to the bottom of the first sewage tank, and a filtering device in a second sewage tank, which filtering device comprises several filters and to which the pre-clarified sewage is fed from above for further clarification. The filtering device has a rotary plate which is rotatable about a vertical axis of rotation and stores several filter containers, each filter container including several filters arranged above each other. In a lid of the second sewage tank, a closable tank opening is provided, via which at least one filter is removable when the associated filter container is opposite to the tank opening after a corresponding rotation of the rotary plate.

A septic tank for storing and treating wastewater may be provided. In one implementation, a septic tank, having a first lengthwise end, an opposing second lengthwise end, a top, a bottom, a horizontal centerplane, and a vertical lengthwise centerplane, and a basic wall thickness T may be provided. The septic tank may include corrugated walls and an oblong flange lying nominally in the horizontal centerplane. The tank may further include opposing endwalls, each endwall integrally connecting an end of a first sidewall to an end of a second sidewall. The endwalls may include an endwall top, an endwall side running from the upper half tank flange to the endwall top along an inward slant, and the endwall side may along a curve which is a semicircle or a portion of a curve.

The present invention discloses a high-concentration organic wastewater treatment reactor. A lower water distribution system, an upper water distribution system, a lower three-phase separator and an upper inclined plate separator are provided from bottom to top in a reactor body of the high-concentration organic wastewater treatment reactor. A gas-liquid separator is disposed on the top of the reactor body. The lower water distribution system and the upper water distribution system are connected to an influent pipe. A lower biogas ascending pipe connected to the gas-liquid separator is disposed on the top of the lower three-phase separator. An upper biogas ascending pipe and an effluent pipe are disposed above the upper inclined plate separator. An outlet end of the upper biogas ascending pipe is connected to the gas-liquid separator. A downcomer is disposed on the bottom of the gas-liquid separator. An air pipe is disposed on the top of the gas-liquid separator. The reactor of the present invention has the characteristics of low energy consumption, good effluent water quality, large biogas production, and no odor, is capable of enhancing the even water distribution and fully mixing sludge and water, have a high removal efficiency of pollutants. Moreover, an internal circulating water dilutes influent water. A system having a strong impact resistance ability and a reactor being operated stably for a long term are achieved.

The systems and methods herein are directed a wastewater management system which can be used on a housing unit. The wastewater management system includes a septic tank, pump tank, pressure tank, and pods residing within a drainfield.

An improved biofilter design and related methods of utilizing shaped drain assemblies for directing fluid flow though a biofilter media to promote biological interaction. A shaped drain assembly can include a plurality of elongated drain structures having a permeable upper surface, a. lower surface and a drain interior defining a drain cross-section. When configured as a shaped underdrain assembly, each elongated drain structures can be in proximity to a biofilter tank floor such that the lower surface is in fluid communication with one or more flow channels below the floor and with the permeable upper surface supporting the biofilter media. The biofilter can include a shaped drain assembly positioned above the shaped underdrain assembly and located within or above the biofilter media. The shaped drain assemblies can control the flow and mixing of two or more flow species into the biofilter media.

A reactor for the biological treatment of wastewater, includes a chamber capable of containing a mixture of wastewater and sludge comprising various levels, each level being defined by a sludge concentration and/or density; means for determining a minimum level and a maximum level of sludge extraction in the chamber, comprising: measurement means capable of measuring the sludge concentration and/or density at various levels of a mixture of wastewater and sludge; selection means capable of selecting a maximum sludge concentration and/or density value and a minimum sludge concentration and/or density value; deduction means capable of deducing a minimum extraction level corresponding to the maximum concentration value selected and a maximum extraction level corresponding to the minimum concentration value selected; extraction means capable of extracting sludge at variable levels between the minimum extraction level and the maximum extraction level.