What Is An Advanced Sewage Treatment Plant?
Advanced Sewage Treatment Plant is a method that can lower sewage contaminants below levels which can be achieved with traditional secondary or biological treatment.
These
cutting-edge treatment options are now of interest to people all around the
world as people, communities, and businesses look for ways to maintain necessary
resources accessible and usable. As society works to lessen the effects of the
growing population, urbanization, industrialization, and the depletion of
potable water, advanced sewage treatment is required.
What Are the Processes of
Advanced Sewage Treatment?
Processes for treating advanced sewage can be
biological, physical-chemical, or a combination of the two.
Biochemical Processes: Nitrogen and phosphorus are removed by biological
mechanisms from nutrient pollution.
Important tertiary treatment technologies include
biologically improved phosphorus removal systems and intermittently decanted
extended aeration lagoon systems for nitrogen removal. Domestic sewage's
nitrogen is organically removed by the extended aeration lagoon system.
Physicochemical Processes: A sustainability evaluation of modern treatment technology
lists the following:
• Ozone treatment
• UV light is only used to
disinfect harmful bacteria;
·
MBRs, or membrane bioreactors
·
Processes for advanced oxidation (AOP);
• accelerated oxidation
combined with UV;
·
Nanotechnology
• Variable automatic
filtering.
Sewage Treatment Plant: Advanced Oxidation Process
The primary oxidants in AOP while generating hydroxyl
radicals are radicals, which break down compounds into intermediates and then
mineralize those intermediates into simple compounds like water, carbon
dioxide, and salts. These radicals can be produced in a variety of ways.
However, as with many water/wastewater treatment
solutions, each option has advantages and disadvantages. As a result, it is
critical to carefully select an AOP process that will work best with your
specific application.
Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs)
are the techniques employed for oxidation
of various organic contaminants in polluted water with the objective
of making it suitable for human consumption like household and drinking
purpose. AOPs use potent chemical oxidants to bring down the contaminant level
in the water.
Types of processes in AOP
Hydrogen Peroxide
Hydrogen peroxide, unlike ozone, cannot be used as a
stand-alone oxidation treatment. It is not as effective as O3 as a secondary
oxidizer, but it can react with hydrogen and oxygen-containing compounds in a
less complicated manner than ozone. It does not need to be manufactured
on-site, but it must be carefully stored because it is unstable. H2O2 must also
be monitored for residuals that remain after treatment. Because the compound
can be toxic to humans, it may need to be treated.
Ozone
In an alkaline solution, ozone interacts with
hydrogen-containing compounds and decomposes in a series of steps to reduce to
OH radicals. It can be used as an AOP on its own, but only at higher pH levels
due to the abundance of hydroxide ions present. Though the reactions are much
slower, O3 is also a powerful oxidant and acts as a secondary oxidizer in the
overall process.
Ultraviolet Light
Because of its ability to kill or prevent the
reproduction of a variety of pathogens, ultraviolet light is widely used as a
disinfectant. UV is not an oxidant in and of itself because it is just a
wavelength of light, but it does transfer massless photons to chemical
compounds, breaking their bonds quickly and easily.
However, because UV interaction is light-driven, some
contaminants, such as suspended solids, can reduce its efficiency by blocking
it from the target compounds.
The Working of Advanced Oxidation
Processes
AOP is an
aqueous phase oxidation method, which uses highly reactive species in the
oxidative destruction of target pollutants. AOP generates hydroxyl radicals in
the water, which are a more powerful and less selective secondary oxidant. Most
organic compounds can be oxidized by this secondary oxidant until they are
fully mineralized as carbon dioxide and water.
The hydroxyl
radical has a significantly higher oxidation potential than ozone or hydrogen
peroxide and typically reacts one million times faster, resulting in a shorter
contact time and footprint.
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