Municipal wastewater treatment using a membrane aerated biofilm reactor
- 1 June 2022
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Thomas Telford Ltd. in Journal of Environmental Engineering and Science
- Vol. 17 (2), 99-107
- https://doi.org/10.1680/jenes.21.00025
Abstract
The performance of a membrane aerated biofilm reactor (MABR) treating raw municipal wastewater primary effluent (PE) was optimized. The MABR performance was challenged by the gradual increase of the organics and ammonia surface loading rates with hydraulic retention times (HRT) of 10.7, 6.24, 4.0, 2.0, and 3.0 hours. With organics and ammonia surface loading rates of 20 gTCODm−2d−1 and 3.32 gNH4 +-Nm−2d−1, respectively, the reactor achieved simultaneous organics, nitrogen, and Total nitrogen (TN) reductions of 98%, 96%, and 67%, respectively. Microbial analysis indicated the coexistence of nitrite oxidizing bacteria (NOB), ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB), aerobic denitrifying bacteria (ADB), and other bacteria within the MABR biofilm, correlating to simultaneous nitrification, denitrification, and organics within the reactor. Acceptable effluent water quality was obtained when the MABR was operated at an HRT as low as 3 hours.Keywords
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