A method for treating dye wastewater includes: firstly, homogenizing the dye wastewater to balance the quality of the dye wastewater from different processes; then subjecting the homogenized dye wastewater to anaerobic treatment to remove most of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and total suspended solids (SS) in the wastewater; and finally subjecting the dye wastewater after the anaerobic treatment to circulating anaerobic-oxic treatment in a membrane bioreactor (MBR). In the present invention, the MBR is filled with a quinone-based hollow fiber membrane. The quinone acts as an electron mediator to accelerate an enzymatic reaction for dye decolorization during the anaerobic process, thereby achieving the purpose of efficient decolorization. The oxic treatment process further removes the COD and SS in the wastewater, so that the effluent meets a first-level discharge standard.

A method, an apparatus, and a system for treating a waste in a vehicle. The waste is received from a lavatory in a waste tank through a waste input port connected to the lavatory in the vehicle. Anaerobic bacteria are introduced into the waste such that anaerobic digestion occurs to breakdown a biodegradable material in the waste in the waste tank.

The disclosure relates to bioreactors, for example for biological treatment and, more specifically to bioreactor insert apparatus including biofilms and related methods. The bioreactor insert apparatus provides a means for circulation of reaction medium within the bioreactor, a biofilm support, and biological treatment of an inlet feed to the reactor/insert apparatus. The bioreactor insert apparatus has a high relative surface area for biofilm attachment and is capable of generating complex flow patterns and increasing treatment efficiency/biological conversion activity in a biologically-active reactor. The high surface area structure incorporates multiple biofilm support structures such as meshes at inlet and outlet portions of the structure. The biofilm support structures and biofilms thereon can increase overall reaction rate of the bioreactor and/or perform some solid/liquid separation in the treatment of the wastewater or other influent.

Provided herein are methods of organic waste stream conversion including fermenting an organic waste stream with an inoculum using arrested methanogenesis to generate an organic product. The inoculum includes an anaerobic consortium isolated from cheese, yogurt, saline soil, kefir, and/or probiotics and the anaerobic consortium is pretreated to transform the anaerobic consortium into an acidogenic consortium

We provide methods, systems, and apparatus for treatment of high chemical oxygen demand wastewater using anaerobic treatment with ceramic membranes. We also provide post-treatment using microbial fuel cells.

The present invention provides a method for treating dye wastewater. The method includes: firstly, homogenizing the dye wastewater to balance the quality of the dye wastewater from different processes; then subjecting the homogenized dye wastewater to anaerobic treatment to remove most of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and total suspended solids (SS) in the wastewater; and finally subjecting the dye wastewater after the anaerobic treatment to circulating anaerobic-oxic treatment in a membrane bioreactor (MBR). In the present invention, the MBR is filled with a quinone-based hollow fiber membrane. The quinone acts as an electron mediator to accelerate an enzymatic reaction for dye decolorization during the anaerobic process, thereby achieving the purpose of efficient decolorization. The oxic treatment process further removes the COD and SS in the wastewater, so that the effluent meets a first-level discharge standard. The results of the examples show that by treating the dye wastewater by the method provided by the present invention, the COD in the effluent is less than 100 mg/L, the chromaticity is less than 20 times, and the SS is 0.

Disclosed is a method for treating wastewater containing heavy metal. First, the wastewater containing heavy metal is subjected to a homogenization treatment, such that the water quality of the wastewater containing heavy metal from different processes is homogenized. The homogenized wastewater containing heavy metal is subjected to an anaerobic-aerobic circulating treatment in a membrane bioreactor (2), in which heavy metal ions are reduced by the action of microorganisms in the anaerobic treatment process. The membrane bioreactor (2) is filled with a hollow fiber membrane (3) containing a quinone group, which serves as an electron mediator that can accelerate the enzymatic reduction of heavy metal ions during the anaerobic treatment. During the aerobic treatment, the COD and SS in the wastewater are further removed.

A membrane filtration system and a membrane bio reactor including the same are described. In an example, the membrane filtration system includes: a treatment tank; a membrane support frame disposed in the treatment tank and mounted with a filtration membrane; a reciprocating portion connected to the membrane support frame and reciprocating the membrane support frame; a sliding portion disposed in the treatment tank, connected to the reciprocating portion, and guiding a moving direction of the membrane support frame; and a sludge lifting portion flexibly disposed at a lower end of the membrane support frame to lift sludge accumulated at a lower part of the treatment tank.

The present invention relates to systems and methods for removing and recovering precious metals, such as platinum-group metals (PGMs), including palladium, from wastewater and waste streams. The invention also relates to systems and methods for recycling the recovered precious metals for catalytic applications.

A method for treating domestic sewage includes: preliminarily treating the domestic sewage through a grating and a grit chamber, so as to remove large-particle solids in the domestic sewage; and subjecting the domestic sewage after the preliminary treatment to circulating anaerobic-oxic treatment in a membrane bioreactor (MBR). In the oxic treatment process, microorganisms oxidize nitrogen in the sewage into nitrite or nitrate. Under anaerobic conditions, denitrifying bacteria in the microorganisms reduce the nitrate, releasing molecular nitrogen or nitrous oxide. In the present invention, the MBR is filled with a quinone-based hollow fiber membrane. During the microbial denitrification, the quinone acts as an electron transfer carrier to participate in the denitrification to promote the reduction of the nitrate (nitrite), increasing the denitrification rate under anaerobic conditions, and achieving the purpose of efficient denitrification.