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Introduction
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Sidestream Short-Cut N Removal
Established Technology
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Sidestream Short-Cut N Removal
Established Technology
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Energy Savings
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Carbon Requirements for Mainstream
Biological Nitrogen Removal Processes
Constituent Nitrification Nitritation- Partial
denitrification denitritation nitritation-
deammonificati
on
Carbon required for nitrogen
3.5 – 4.0 2.0 – 2.5 0.5
removal (mg COD /mg N)
Net Process Oxygen
Requirement (mg O2/mg N 1.71
Converted to N2)
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Nitrogen Removal
Short Cut Nitrogen Removal Processes
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Conventional Nitrification-Denitrification
Autotrophic Bacteria Heterotrophic Bacteria
Aerobic Environment Anoxic Environment
NITRITE
OXIDIZING
BACTERIA
(NOB)
AMMONIA
OHO
OXIDIZING
DENITRIFYING
BACTERIA BACTERIA
(AOB)
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Conventional Nitrogen Removal Processes
Advantages Disadvantages
WW carbon utilized for Large BNR volume
denitrification
Alkalinity recovered Nitrogen removal limited by IMLR 11
Conventional Nitrogen Removal Processes
Effect of C:N Ratio on Denitrification
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14
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Effluent NO3-N (mg/L)
10
0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12
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Effluent NOx-N (mg/L)
25
20
15
10
0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20
Soluble COD:NH4 Ratio
SND Shunt
(1/d)
operation 0.4
0.2
0
• AOB always at maximum 0 1 2
Ammonia (AOB) or nitrite (NOB), mg-N/L
3 4
available) 160
SNPR (mgN/gVSS.d)
140
120
100
• Oxygen affinity 0
0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0
DO (mg/L)
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St. Petersburg FL – Low DO Mainstream Nitrite
Shunt
7000
5000
4000
3000
2000
1000
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
Days
Nitrification SND
10
0
7/28/13 8/4/13 8/11/13 8/18/13 8/25/13 9/1/13
Ammonia Nitrite Nitrate 18
St. Petersburg FL - Inorganic Nitrogen Profile
0.8
HRSD Pilot Plant - AvN Control
Aerobic Fraction
NH4-N
DO = set point NOx-N
10 1.0
0.9
DO 8 0.8
Controller/
PLC 0.7
Aerobic Fraction
Nitrogen (mg/L)
6 0.6
Aerobic 0.5
Duration
Controller/ NH4-N - NOx-N 4 0.4
PLC = setpoint 0.3
2 0.2
NH4-N
0.1
0 0.0
NO2-N
D.O. 2.0
NO3-N
1-hour
2.0
1.5
1.0
M
S Air
0.5
0.0
24-hour
Regmi et al., 2014 20
AvN Aeration Advantage
Model-based evaluation of mechanisms and benefits of mainstream shortcut nitrogen removal processes (2014), Ahmed Al-Omari, 21
Bernhard Wett, Ingmar Nopens, Haydee De Clippeleir, Mofei Han, Pusker Regmi, Charles Bott, Sudhir Murthy. WWTMOD
Partial Nitritation-Anammox = “Deammonification”
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Mainstream Deammonification
Four Groups Of Bacteria Involved
NITRITE
HETEROTROPHIC
OXIDIZING
DENITRIFYING
BACTERIA BACTERIA
(NOB)
AMMONIA
OXIDIZING ANAMMOX
BACTERIA BACTERIA
(AOB)
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Mainstream Deammonification
Four Groups Of Bacteria Involved
Inhibited by
high
ammonia NITRITE
conc. OXIDIZING HETEROTROPHIC
DENITRIFYING
BACTERIA BACTERIA
(NOB)
Favored
Compet by low
e for DO
nitrite Favored
AMMONIA by no DO
OXIDIZING ANAMMOX
BACTERIA BACTERIA
Grows (AOB)
faster than
NOB at low
DO Inhibited
Requires process control to prevent growth of competing by nitrite
Challenges of Nitrite Shunt/ Mainstream
Deammonification
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Approaches to Mainstream Nitrite Shunt/
Deammonification
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Strass WWTP – Single Stage Full Scale
Mainstream Nitrite Shunt/ Deammonification
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Strass WWTP – Single Stage Full Scale Mainstream
Nitrite Shunt/ Deammonification
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HRSD Mainstream Nitrite-Shunt + Anammox
Polishing
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HRSD Mainstream Nitrite-Shunt + Anammox
Polishing
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Presenter contact information
Jose Jimenez
Ph.D., P.E.
Email: jjimenez@brwncald.com