The present invention relates to a mainstream deammonification process for removing ammonium from wastewater that suppresses NOB growth and produces a sludge having good settling characteristics, the process comprising: clarifying the wastewater stream in a primary clarifier (12) and producing a primary effluent; directing a first portion of the primary effluent to a biological treatment reactor (14) and removing carbon to produce treated wastewater; directing treated wastewater into an integrated fixed film activated sludge (IFAS) deammonification reactor (16) integrating nitritation and anammox processes and that is provided with intermittent aeration; directing a second portion of the primary effluent to the IFAS deammonification reactor (16) by-passing the biological treatment reactor (14), and injecting this second portion only during periods of air off and refraining from injecting during periods of air on, directing the IFAS deammonification reactor (16) effluent to a secondary clarifier (18) and producing a secondary effluent and a clarifier underflow, and recycling at least a portion of the underflow to the IFAS deammonification reactor (16).

This specification describes a membrane aerated biofilm media and reactor (MABR) having a discontinuous layer of a porous material applied to the outer surface of a gas-transfer membrane. The porous material may have a void fraction of 50% or more. The porous material may have a thickness of up to about 500 microns and a pattern on the same order of magnitude as its thickness. The media may be used to carry on a deammonification reaction. In use, ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and annamox bacteria grown in or on the media, with the annamox bacteria located primarily in the porous material. The supply of oxygen through the gas-transfer membrane is limited to suppress the growth of nitrite oxidizing bacteria (NOB). Excess biofilm is removed, for example by coarse bubble scouring. The media may be placed in an anoxic zone of an activated sludge plant, which may be upstream of an aerobic zone.

Aerobic granular sludge (AGS) is an energy efficient and compact biological wastewater treatment process. There is only one commercially available AGS technology which utilizes sequencing batch reactors (SBR). Many existing wastewater treatment facilities consist of long, continuous flow reactors that would not be readily suitable for retrofit to SBR. Therefore, a continuous flow process is preferred for municipalities that cannot economically invest in the only commercially available SBR technology (i.e., Nere-da®). Lab- and pilot-scale experimentation has demonstrated that stable granulation can be achieved in a continuous flow configuration GT suitable for retrofit into existing infrastructure. An anoxic/anaerobic/aerobic configuration can be designed and stably operated for conversion of flocculent biomass to AGS Preliminary pilot-scale results on primary effluent from a municipal wastewater treatment facility indicated that granules of 0.2-0.5 mm, SVI<75 mL/g, and SV.sub.30 min/SVI.sub.5 min>70% can be formed within a month of steady operation.

Disclosed is a split continuous operation micro-grid dynamic membrane bioreactor. The split continuous operation micro-grid dynamic membrane bioreactor comprises a biological treatment unit and a drum dynamic membrane filtration unit, wherein the biological treatment unit comprises a microbiological treatment tank, and a water inlet pipe is arranged on the microbiological treatment tank; the drum dynamic membrane filtration unit comprises a filter tank, and a drum micro-grid dynamic membrane mechanism is arranged in the filter tank; the drum micro-grid dynamic membrane mechanism comprises a filter drum, a backwashing device is arranged above the filter drum, and a sludge collecting tank is arranged in the filter drum; a water outlet is formed in the bottom of the filter tank; a mixed liquid pipe is arranged between the microbiological treatment tank and the filter drum; and a sludge discharge header pipe is arranged on the sludge collecting tank.

A self-circulating high-efficiency biological denitrification device includes a tank body, where an aerobic zone, an anoxic zone, a settling tank water distribution zone, a sludge zone, a sludge-water separation zone, and an effluent flow stabilization zone are arranged from bottom to top in the tank body; the settling tank water distribution zone includes a settling tank influent guide cylinder, and a circular butterfly jet water distributor is arranged between the settling tank influent guide cylinder and the aerobic zone; the settling tank influent guide cylinder is connected to a guide plate arranged in the aerobic zone, the anaerobic zone, and the sludge zone; the guide plate includes three sections; a nitrification liquid return gap and a sludge return gap are formed; a bottom of the aerobic zone is provided with an aerator; the aerator is connected to an air inlet pipe located outside the tank body.

Water treatment method for simultaneous abatement of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus, implemented in a sequencing batch moving bed biofilm reactor (SBMBBR) comprising carriers suitable for the development of a biofilm. The method comprises sequences of successive treatments, each treatment sequence comprising: an initial phase of anaerobic treatment, said initial phase of anaerobic treatment being followed by at least one aerobic/anoxic cycle consisting of: —an aerobic treatment phase so as to obtain an ammonium ion concentration that does not pass below a threshold concentration of ammonium ions; and a phase in which the biofilm is placed, at least locally, under anoxic conditions, this phase being concomitant with or posterior to said aerobic treatment phase; the threshold concentration of ammonium ions being calculated to allow the development of Anammox microorganisms during the phase in which the biofilm is placed, at least locally, under anoxic conditions.

Water treatment structures may have at least a first geotextile fabric layer; a second geotextile fabric layer; a third geotextile fabric layer; a first filler layer with plastic particles, arranged between the first and second geotextile fabric layers; and a second filler layer with plastic particles, arranged between the second and third geotextile fabric layers, wherein the geotextile fabric layers and the filler layers are within a housing, and wherein the structure is configured such that contaminated water proceeds sequentially through the first geotextile fabric layer, the first filler layer, the second geotextile fabric layer, the second filler layer, and the third geotextile fabric layer. Methods of treating wastewater may involve passing wastewater, after optional oxygenating and pre-filtering, through such alternating layers of geotextile, preferably nonwoven, and polymer particles.

A method for treating a wastewater effluent includes carbon pollution, nitrogen pollution and phosphorus pollution, in a sequencing batch reactor (SBR), the SBR comprising: a chamber capable of containing a wastewater-sludge mixture comprising various levels; a sludge bed, comprising PAOs, located at the bottom of the chamber, above which a sludge blanket level is defined; means for determining a minimum level and a maximum level for extracting sludge in the chamber; extraction means capable of extracting sludge at variable levels between the minimum extraction level and the maximum extraction level; the method comprising: a step of supplying the SBR, during which an amount of effluent to be treated is introduced near the bottom of the chamber, in the sludge bed; a reaction sequence comprising: at least a first anaerobic step, during which the PAOs capture the carbon pollution and release phosphorus compounds; optionally, a second step of anoxic denitrification; a third aeration step, allowing the dephosphatation of the effluent by the PAOs to be carried out; a decanting step, during which sludge is deposited at the bottom of the chamber and the content of the chamber clarifies in the vicinity of its surface; a recovery step, during which a clarified fraction is drawn off from the content of the chamber, with the recovery and supply steps taking place simultaneously; and a step of extracting at least a portion of the light sludge at a predetermined level.

A treatment system and method for removal of nutrients and other pollutants to produce a low solid, high quality effluent suitable for discharge or reuse using a combination of aerobic granular sludge (AGS), either in a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) AGS configuration or in a flow through AGS configuration, in combination with immersed/submerged membranes commonly referred to as membrane bio-reactor (MBR) wastewater treatment processes, systems, and methods.

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.