Upgrading the Performance of Urban Wastewater Facultative Ponds by changing to Attached Baffled Process

Document Type : Original Research Paper

Authors

1 Graduate Faculty of Environment, University of Tehran, P.O.Box 14155-6135, Tehran, Iran

2 Department of Environmental Health, School of public health, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran

Abstract

This study aims at evaluating the improved facultative ponds performance in pilot scale. Wastewater has been collected from primary settling basins of Ahvaz wastewater treatment plant. Treatment efficacy of the four systems (three systems in parallel with a control system) has been evaluated over a period of 12 months at various hydraulic retention times (HRT) and organic loading rates (OLR). There has been no baffle and no attached growth media (AGM) in the control system (S0), while other three systems (S2, S3, and S4) have been equipped with different numbers of baffles and AGM packages, containing the mineral shells. Results show that efficiency of BOD5 removal for S0, S2, S3, and S4 are 53.4%, 60.8%, 64.7%, and 67.6%, respectively, while for COD these rates alter to 28.1%, 37.7%, 45.8%, and 50.1 % and of coliform to 66.7%, 76.6%, 80.7%, and 83.4%. Filtered BOD5 in the effluent of S0, S2, S3, and S4 is 32.5, 27.6, 24.6, and 22.3 mg/l, respectively and 60.2, 52.1, 47, and 44.3 mg/l for TSS. Also the 10-day HRT has been optimum among applied HRTs. As such, attached growth-baffled ponds function better than conventional ones, making the technique, examined in the present paper a low-cost process to establish new wastewater treatment plants or upgrading the existent WSPs, especially in case of warm areas of southwestern Iran.

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Volume 4, Issue 4
October 2018
Pages 725-735

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