Abstract
This work starts using a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) with physical-chemical treatment that generates an effluent with high values of conductivity and COD. This effluent will be treated by biological treatment; however, the high conductivity of this effluent can inhibit the activity of the biomass present in the activated sludge reactor. This study seeks to study the influence of this discharge on the biological treatment. For this, the study will be divided into three parts: 1. Experimental part where the biological consumption of oxygen of the biomass of the WWTP will be analyzed using water with different degrees of salinity. The experiments will allow to know the kinetic parameters (uh) and stoichiometric (yh) of the microorganisms present in the biomass among other parameters. 2.A simulation of the whole WWTP using ASM models and the kinetic and estequiometric parameters obtained experimentally 3.Optimization of the of WWTP.
Keywords
biological treatment
wastewater
treatment plant
salinity
simulation
ERC sector(s)
PE Physical Sciences and Engineering
Name supervisor
Berta Galan
E-mail
galanb@unican.es
Name of Department/Faculty/School
Chemistry and resource and process engineering. Industrial Engineering School. UC.
Name of the host University
University of Cantabria (UC)
EUNICE partner e-mail of destination Research
area.eunice@unican.es
Country
Spain
Thesis level
PhD
Minimal language knowledge requisite
English B2
Thesis mode
Hybrid
Start date
Length of the research internship
Other
Financial support available (other than E+)
No