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.

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.

This specification describes a membrane aerated biofilm reactor (MABR) and processes for nitritation, nitritation-denitritation or deammonification. The supply of oxygen through the gas-transfer membrane is limited to suppress the growth of nitrite oxidizing bacteria (NOB). Exhaust gas from an MABR unit may have an oxygen concentration of 4% or less. The process can optionally include one or more of: intermittent (batch) feed of process air; process air modulation; process air direction reversal; process air recycle; and, process air cascade flow. The process can optionally include adding a seed sludge containing anammox to a reactor, optionally after pre-treatment and selection. The process can optionally include pre-seeding an MABR media.

Disclosed is an apparatus and method for synchronously treating sewage and sludge through a step-feed partial nitrification coupling anaerobic ammonia oxidation process, belonging to the biological treatment field. Ammonia rich landfill leachate is firstly pumped into an aerobic reactor to realize partial nitrification process; exogenous surplus sludge coupling with partial nitrification reactor effluent are input to an anoxic reactor together for achieving integrated fermentation and denitrification process; finally, effluent from the anoxic reactor is pumped into an integrated autotrophic nitrogen removal reactor by a step-feed mode, the integrated reactor contains two main running units of aeration and anoxic stirring, ammonia is oxidized into nitrite in aeration stage, and the generated nitrite and ammonia contained in secondary influent are further removed through anammox process which operates stably and reliably, realizes efficient nitrogen removal from landfill leachate without external carbon source addition, and realizes the purpose of exogenous excess sludge reduction simultaneously.

The disclosure belongs to the field of sewage treatment technology, in particular to a low-carbon nitrogen and phosphorus removal system and process for sewage treatment. The system of the disclosure includes a primary sedimentation fermentation tank, a mainstream modified A.sup.2O unit and a bypass anammox unit. The disclosure sets a denitrification phosphorus removal functional zone in the anoxic tank of the A.sup.2O system, and sets a deoxygenation zone in the aerobic tank. Combined with the primary sedimentation fermentation tank, the efficient utilization of the carbon source of the A.sup.2O process is strengthened. The system has good effluent quality and does not require the addition of a carbon source, and the aeration energy consumption is low, which achieves efficient and low-carbon nitrogen and phosphorus removal.

Low strength wastewater such as municipal sewage is treated using an anaerobic digester. In some examples, a wastewater stream is separated into a solids rich portion and a solids lean portion. The solids lean portion is treated, for example to remove nitrogen. The solids rich portion is treated in an anaerobic digester, preferably with influent or recuperative thickening. In another example, the wastewater stream is fed to an anaerobic digester and solid-liquid separation stages downstream of the digester return active bacteria and undigested organics to the digester. Both cases may use a process train comprising treatment in an anoxic tank followed by a nitritation tank with a portion of the effluent from the nitritation tank recirculated to the anoxic tank to provide nitritation and denitritation.

A hybrid membrane aerated biofilm reactor (MABR) and activated sludge (AS) system and process are described herein. At least a portion of the AS system includes aerobic mixed liquor, for example in an aerobic tank or zone downstream of a tank or zone containing membrane aerated biofilm modules. The flow of air to the membrane aerated biofilm is modulated considering the ammonia loading rate to the system or to the aerobic mixed liquor, for example according to a diurnal cycle. For example, air flow to the membrane supported biofilm can be below an average or initial air flow rate during a period of low ammonia loading. Air flow to the aerobic mixed liquor may remain essentially constants during the same period. Optionally, mixed liquor around the membrane aerated biofilm modules may be aerated during a period of high ammonia loading.

A system for on-line monitoring of a supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) process, the system including an SCWO reactor, a feedstock supply line which supplies a feedstock to the SCWO reactor, an oxidant supply line which supplies an oxidant to the SCWO reactor, at least one sensor which measures at least one parameter of the feedstock and the oxidant, and a controller which determines a Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) and a Heating Value (HV) of the feedstock based on the at least one parameter, such that the controller adjusts the amount of the oxidant supplied to the SCWO reactor based upon the COD and the HV of the feedstock.

Method and system for treating wastewater includes treating sludge with ozone in a plug-flow type reactor to cause lysis of biosolids in the sludge. The ozonated sludge may be provided to an anaerobic or anoxic section of the wastewater treatment system to aid the denitrification processes occurring in the anaerobic or anoxic section of the wastewater treatment system or to other sections of the wastewater treatment system such as a fermenter, an aerobic digester, or an anaerobic digester.

The disclosure belongs to the field of sewage treatment technology, in particular to a low-carbon nitrogen and phosphorus removal system and process for sewage treatment. The system of the disclosure includes a primary sedimentation fermentation tank, a mainstream modified A.sup.2O unit and a bypass anammox unit. The disclosure sets a denitrification phosphorus removal functional zone in the anoxic tank of the A.sup.2O system, and sets a deoxygenation zone in the aerobic tank. Combined with the primary sedimentation fermentation tank, the efficient utilization of the carbon source of the A.sup.2O process is strengthened. The system has good effluent quality and does not require the addition of a carbon source, and the aeration energy consumption is low, which achieves efficient and low-carbon nitrogen and phosphorus removal.