Design and application of a membrane bioreactor unit to upgrade and enhance the required performance of an installed wastewater treatment plant

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2010

Authors

barbosa, d (Author) FEUP; augusto, pa (Author) FEUP; castelo-grande, t (Author) Other; monteiro, p (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering

Vol. 5 No. 1

Pages: 73-82

ISSN: 1932-2135

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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FOS: Engineering and technology > Chemical engineering

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Authenticus ID: P-003-A6H

DOI: 10.1002/apj.392

Abstract (EN): Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are nowadays common solutions to improve the quality of streams and soils. However, there are still many issues required to be solved within these plants. We were commissioned to redesign a WWTP in Amarante, Portugal, which was not working properly. Among the several units we have designed, there is a membrane bioreactor representing one of the main units of this remodelled WWTP. The biological treatment stage at the upgraded WWTP will take place in the remodelled primary and secondary settlers and in the remodelled and improved biological reactor. Hence, the primary settler is readapted in Such a way that it functions as the anoxic area of the biological treatment, while the aerobic treatment will be sequentially performed at the remodelled biological reactor and at the actual secondary settler. Membrane treatment will be performed by using ultrafiltration membranes. (C) 2009 Curtin University of Technology and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 10