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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2012
Hong W. Zhao, Raleigh, NC (US);
Thomas Welander, Furulund, SE;
Magnus Christensson, Lund, SE;
Romain Lemaire, Paris, FR;
Hong W. Zhao, Raleigh, NC (US);
Thomas Welander, Furulund, SE;
Magnus Christensson, Lund, SE;
Romain Lemaire, Paris, FR;
Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies Support, Saint Maurice, FR;
Abstract
A process that utilizes ammonium oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and anaerobic ammonium oxidizing (ANAMMOX) bacteria to remove ammonium from a wastewater stream. Sludge separated from the wastewater in a mainstream is processed in a sidestream that includes an anaerobic digester, a dewatering system, and a biofilm reactor. The anaerobic digester produces digested sludge that is dewatered, producing reject water that includes a relatively high ammonium concentration and a relatively low organic carbon concentration and a relatively high temperature. The reject water is treated in a sidestream deammonification biofilm reactor that includes biofilm carriers seeded with AOB and ANAMMOX bacteria that are effective to remove ammonium from the reject water. AOB and ANAMMOX bacteria on the media carriers is utilized to contact the wastewater in the mainstream and to remove ammonium therefrom.