Nitrificação e desnitrificação simultânea em reator com biomassa em suspensão e fluxo contínuo de esgoto / Simultaneous nitrification and denitrification in reactor with biomass in suspension and continuous flow of sewage

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

27/07/2011

RESUMO

It was developed in Europe the process known as Simultaneous Nitrification and Denitrification (SND) in activated sludge that operates with a SRT, high enough for nitrification to occur, even with low concentration of dissolved oxygen in the aeration tanks. Such situation in the tanks is possible to maintain anoxic conditions inside the flocs and to have the occurrence of denitrification. In countries with tropical climate, many sewage treatment plants have been built or are being designed to operate under the conditions of the variant of the activated sludge process known as extended aeration, admittedly effective in removing organic matter and nitrification of the sewage. Such plants may be adapted to these new conditions in order to obtain the technical benefit of denitrification and economic gain on the reduction in energy consumption for aeration. This study aimed at assessing the conditions of nitrogen removal by SND in a system of extended aeration activated sludge in a continuous flow, with different SRT of 40, 30 and 20 days, treating sewage. The process of treatment remained stable throughout the observation period. The experimental results show that it is possible to maintain low DO concentrations in the aeration tank in a relatively narrow range (0.3 to 0.8 mg.L-1), and hence develop the processes of nitrification and denitrification under the same conditions (NDS) with high efficiency and stability. The BOD and COD removal was above 90 per cent . The values of maximum specific growth (m20) of bacteria autotrophic nitrites and nitrates, are the result very similar to those described in the literature, for the sludge age of 20 days the values of 0.68 d-1 for nitrites bacterium and 0,62 d-1 for nitrates bacterium. The values of the maximum utilization rates of ammonia were higher than those obtained with the nitrite and can be observed that the accumulation of nitrate of ammonia due to the decrease was faster than with nitrite. This way, it was concluded that nitrification was ruled by autotrophic nitrites. The utilization rate of nitrate was higher as substrate material readily biodegradable. Confirming that the availability of carbon performs a fundamental role in the denitrification rates in the process of SND

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activated sludge aeração prolongada baixa concentração de oxigênio extended aeration iodo ativado low oxygen concentration nitrificação e desnitrificação simultânea (nds) respirometria respirometry simultaneous nitrification and denitrification (snd)

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