Feedforward control for nitrogen removal in a pilot-scale anaerobic-anoxic-oxic plant for municipal wastewater treatment |
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Authors: | Tonggang Shen Hanchang Shi Huiming Shi He Jing Huilei Xiong |
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Institution: | Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China |
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Abstract: | To improve the efficiency of nitrogen removal with lower energy consumption, the study of feedforward control was carried out on a pilot-scale anaerobic-anoxic-oxic (AAO) plant for the treatment of municipal wastewater. The effluent qualities of the pilot plant under different control strategies were investigated. The results indicated that the change of external recycle was not a suitable approach to regulate the sludge concentration of plug-flow reactors; adjusting the aeration valve and dissolved oxygen set-point according to ammonia load could overcome the impact of influent fluctuation; and the denitrification potential could be estimated based on the transit time of anoxic zone and the relative content of carbon resource entering the anoxic zone. Simple feedforward control strategies for aeration and internal recycle were subsequently proposed and validated. The nitrogen removal was successfully improved in the pilot plant. The effluent total nitrogen had decreased by 29.9% and was steadily controlled below 15 mg·L-1. Furthermore, approximately 38% of the energy for aeration had been saved. |
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Keywords: | anaerobic-anoxic-oxic (AAO) feedforward control municipal wastewater nitrogen removal |
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