The present invention provides a method of controlling a wastewater treatment plant. The plant comprises at least one process tank and an aeration structure configured for aeration of the at least one process tank. The method comprises alternating steps of increasing aeration to the at least one process tank when a first event occurs, wherein the first event is one of when a first threshold value of a first tank parameter is reached and when a first predetermined time period has expired, and decreasing aeration to the at least one process tank when a second event occurs, wherein the second event is one of when a second threshold value of a second tank parameter is reached and when a second predetermined time period has expired. The first and second tank parameters are selected from a group consisting of nitrate concentration, nitrite concentration, and ammonium concentration determined in the water in the at least one process tank, and the steps of increasing aeration and decreasing aeration are carried out to reduce N2O emissions from the plant.

Multi-parameter water analysis system with a water parameter sensing device configured to wirelessly provide detector data and a smart phone displayable indicator of water analysis test results that are calculated by an analysis application that is updateable via a cloud-based data resource to account for a manufacturing change in indicator chemistry and/or an improvement in test result display. The water parameter sensing device includes an optical sensing apparatus configured to detect light from each of a plurality of indicators for different parameters when the indicator and a chemical parameter are exposed to each other, a processor to process information of the detected light, and wireless communication circuitry for communicating detector data based on the information about the detected light to a remote device. Social networking of water quality data allows sharing to other users.

A system and method of treating wastewater. In one embodiment, the system comprises a biological reactor fluidly connected to a source of wastewater and having a treated wastewater outlet, a fixed film biological reactor connected to the source of wastewater and having a fixed film effluent outlet, and a ballasted system fluidly connected to the fixed film effluent outlet. The ballasted system may comprise a ballast reactor tank configured to provide a ballasted effluent, and a source of ballast material fluidly connected to an inlet of the ballast reactor tank. The system may further comprise a bypass line having an inlet fluidly connected to the source of wastewater, a first outlet fluidly connected to the ballasted system, and a second outlet fluidly connected to the fixed film biological reactor, the bypass line configured to bypass the fixed film biological reactor.

A liquid treatment device includes a base with a power source, a UV-LED module for providing UV-B or UV-C light to liquid, an LED for providing visible light, and a processor for selectively powering the UV-LED module and the LED, and having a UV transmissive material above the UV-LED module for allowing the UV-B or UV-C band light from the UV-LED module to be transmitted from the base housing, and a liquid storage housing removably coupled to the base housing with a storage portion configured to hold liquid and having a bottom portion comprising a UV transmissive material for allowing the UV-B or UV-C band light from the UV-LED module to be transmitted into the liquid, and an output coupled for restricting outflow of the liquid from the storage portion.

Provided are a water treatment method and a water treatment device that can be introduced in a standard tank with an effective water depth of 5 m or less during treatment of water to be treated that contains organic matter and a nitrogen component, and that allow improvement in efficiency of removing nitrogen from the water to be treated and suppressing energy consumption for aeration while maintaining a high MLSS. The water treatment method is for treating water to be treated that contains organic matter and a nitrogen component, and includes, in a biological treatment device (10) comprising at least an aerobic tank (40): a biological treatment step for biologically treating inflowing water to be treated aerobically by using sludge that contains granules; a solid-liquid separation step for separating die biological treatment solution in the aerobic tank (40) into treated water and concentrated sludge using a solid-liquid separation device (12); and a sludge return step for returning the concentrated sludge obtained in the solid-liquid separation step to a stage before the biological treatment device (10). The concentration of ammonium nitrogen remaining due to the nitrification reaction in the aerobic tank (40) is measured with an ammonium nitrogen concentration measurement device (16), and the amount of gas containing oxygen dispersed to the aerobic tank (40) is controlled with a blower (18) so that the measured ammonium nitrogen concentration is within a prescribed range.

The present invention discloses a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) and method for shrimp culture through SBR wastewater treatment. The RAS includes a control cabinet, culture tanks, a clean water tank, a clean water filling pipeline, a drainage pipeline, a buried activated sludge tank and a solid-liquid separation mechanism. The solid-liquid separation mechanism comprises a sludge pump, an input pipe, a plate and frame type filter press and a liquid output pipe. An input end of the sludge pump is immersed in sewage of the buried activated sludge tank; and a clean water output end of the plate and frame type filter press is connected with the buried activated sludge tank through the liquid output pipe.

A cooperative fuzzy-neural control method is designed in this present invention. Due to the difficulty for cooperatively controlling the concentrations of the dissolved oxygen and nitrate nitrogen in wastewater treatment process, a cooperative fuzzy-neural control method is investigated. In this proposed method, firstly, a interval type-2 fuzzy neural network is employed to construct the cooperative fuzzy-neural controller. Secondly, a parameter cooperative strategy is proposed to cooperatively optimize the global and local parameters of the cooperative fuzzy-neural controller to meet the control requirements. This proposed cooperative fuzzy-neural control method can cooperatively control the concentrations of the dissolved oxygen and nitrate nitrogen in wastewater treatment process. The results illustrate that the proposed cooperative fuzzy-neural control method can achieve the high control accuracy and guarantee the normal operations of wastewater treatment process under the different operation conditions.

A method for building a predictive model of mDON in wastewater, including a) acquiring a kinetics associated with production and consumption of a mDON of an activated sludge system, and importing a kinetic expression of the mDON into a conventional activated sludge model No. 1 (ASM1) to build a kinetic equation for the mDON; b) inputting component variables, parameter variables, model matrices, process rate equation and operating parameters of a predictive model into a simulation software AquaSim to build an ASM-mDON model; c) inputting initial values of the component variables and the parameter variables into the simulation software AquaSim for model initialization; d) acquiring initial mDON kinetic and sensitivity analysis results, selecting corresponding parameters, calibrating kinetic and stoichiometric parameters of the ASM-mDON model using a parameter estimation function of the simulation software AquaSim; and e) replacing the initial values of the ASM-mDON model with optimal values obtained in d).

A method for establishing a wastewater bioreactor environment including the step of introducing a modified polydimethylsiloxane fiber to a bioreactor tank of a membrane-aerated bioreactor.

A water treatment apparatus for removing nitrogen in raw water and a water treatment method using the same are provided. The water treatment apparatus includes a denitrification reactor configured to remove nitrogen contained in raw water supplied thereto, a phosphorus treatment tank configured to remove phosphorus (P) contained in the raw water supplied from the denitrification reactor, an anammox reactor configured to remove nitrogen contained in the raw water supplied from the phosphorus treatment tank through an anammox reaction, a partial nitritation tank configured to convert ammonium ions (NH.sub.4.sup.+) remaining untreated in the anammox reaction into nitrite ions (NO.sub.2.sup.), and a sedimentation tank configured to cause settling of suspended matter contained in the raw water supplied from the partial nitritation tank so that sludge forms and discharge the raw water through a raw water discharge pipe.