A treatment plant and a method for controlling such a treatment plant suitable for treatment of waste water. The treatment plant includes a circulation channel adapted to house a liquid, an aeration arrangement adapted to supply a gas flow Q including oxygen to the liquid, at least one flow generating machine arranged in the circulation channel and adapted to generate a liquid flow along the circulation channel, and a control unit.

An overgrowth of worms can reduce the effluent quality of a membrane aerated biofilm reactor. A method of controlling the growth of worms in a membrane aerated biofilm includes discontinuing all oxygen sources to a tank containing the biofilm and fluid flows flow into the tank. The tank is maintained in this idle condition for a period of time sufficient to kill at least some of the worms living in the biofilm. The method may be applied periodically to inhibit the formation of an excessive population of worms or retroactively to reduce an already excessive population of worms.

A water treatment apparatus is provided with: a treatment vessel into which a solution of interest S is fed; a hollow fiber membrane which is immersed in the solution of interest S in the treatment vessel and has gas permeability; and a biological membrane which is formed on the outer surface of the hollow fiber membrane and utilizes oxygen-containing air fed into the hollow fiber membrane. In the water treatment apparatus, the solution of interest S is treated with the biological membrane. The water treatment apparatus is also provided with a gas-diffusing tube which is located below the hollow fiber membrane and ejects a washing gas to wash the biological membrane; and an oxygen concentration meter which measures the oxygen concentration in discharged air that has passed through the hollow fiber membrane.

The invention relates to a solid filtering wastewater treatment device (100) comprising a first stage (101) with a freely drained fixed culture arranged directly above a second fixed water saturated culture stage (105), and a force aeration system (110) extending under the second stage. The invention also relates to a wastewater treatment method, as well as a process for sludge mineralization, implementing such a purification device.

The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for hydrolyzing and acidifying homogenized organic waste fed into a closed and gas tight reactor using enzymatic bacteria under thermophilic conditions where water may be added to said reactor and the content of the reactor can be mixed and subjecting during hydrolysis and acidification an adequate part of a suspension formed in the reactor toi. a separation step isolatinga permeate comprising an aqueous solution of soluble carbon, volatile fatty acids (VFA) and valuable nutrients, an organic slurry comprising an aqueous solution of insoluble organic solids rich in enzymatic thermophilic bacteria and non-hydrolyzed organic solids, and the remaining part of soluble carbon, VFA and valuable nutrients, thereafter toii. a recirculation step re-feeding said organic slurry into the reactor for further hydrolysis and acidification.

A system and method of reducing corrosion in the ballast tanks of a ship is comprised of a central inert gas manifold extending down into the furthest reaches of the ballast tank, a plurality of lateral gas distribution manifolds extending away from the central manifold, and a plurality of downwardly projecting diffusers connected to the lateral gas distributors that release the inert gas at multiple simultaneous points within the ballast tank space. A method is further presented for using the diffuser array to sparge the ballast water with the inert gas to inhibit microbiological induced corrosion.

An apparatus has a plurality of gas transfer membranes. The apparatus floats in water with the membranes submerged in the water. To treat the water, a gas is supplied to the membranes and is transferred to a biofilm supported on the membranes or to the water. Gas is also used to supply mixing or membrane scouring bubbles to the water. The mixing or scouring bubbles can be provided by a cyclic aeration or other gas supply system, which optionally provides gas at a variable pressure to the membranes in parallel or series with an aerator. Condensates can be removed from the membranes, and exhaust gasses from the membranes can be monitored, optionally through one or more dedicated pipes.

A system and method includes an aeration subsystem that excites enzymes in the liquid waste passing through the septic system. The aeration subsystem includes a compressor section that compresses the liquid waste. The method includes mixing enzymes into the fluid waste material, compressing the fluid waste material with the compressor, injecting air into the compressed fluid waste material, and determining whether the fluid waste material is at a desired cleanliness, and if not, recirculating the fluid waste material through the compressor.

A data-knowledge driven multi-objective optimal control method for municipal wastewater treatment process belongs to the field of wastewater treatment. To balance the energy consumption and effluent quality, a data driven multi-objective optimization model, including energy consumption model and effluent quality model are established to obtain the nonlinear relationship along energy consumption, effluent quality and manipulated variables. Meanwhile, a multi-objective particle swarm optimization algorithm, based on evolutionary knowledge, is proposed to optimize the set-points of nitrate nitrogen and dissolved oxygen. Moreover, the proportional integral differential (PID) controller is designed to track the set-points. Then the effluent quality can be improved and the energy consumption can be reduced.

Disclosed are an ammonia-containing wastewater treatment method and an apparatus, of which a main structure includes an ammonia wastewater holding tank receiving therein ammonia-containing wastewater, at least one ammonia nitrogen detection element detecting ammonia nitrogen content of the ammonia-containing wastewater, at least one aeration device connected to the ammonia wastewater holding tank, an oxygen transfer coefficient calculation device in information connection with the aeration device. The aeration device includes an aeration time controller and a gas flowrate controller. As such, a total mass of oxygen entering the ammonia wastewater treatment tank can be precisely controlled by adjusting output time and output amount per unit time of the aeration device and calculating an oxygen transfer coefficient-aeration flowrate relationship of the aeration device, so that a ratio between the ammonia nitrogen mass and the oxygen mass can be controlled to have ammonium nitrogen first oxidized into nitrite before being oxidized into nitrate.