Operation of nutrient removal facilities / / Water Environment Federation.

• Superior document: WEF manual of practice ; Number 37
• VerfasserIn: Water Environment Federation. Operation of Nutrient Removal Facilities Task Force,
• Place / Publishing House: Alexandria, Virginia : : Water Environment Federation,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Manual of practice ; Number 37.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xlvi, 591 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: "Prepared by the Operation of Nutrient Removal Facilities Task Force of the Water Environment Federation."--Title page verso.

This manual is for plant managers, operators, design engineers, and regulators looking to gain a better understanding of fundamental biological and chemical processes that are in use at nutrient removal facilities and the ways that operators may use, monitor, and control these processes to meet their facility's treatment goal.

Table of Contents

Wastewater consitutents that affect nutrient removal -- Nitrification -- Nitrification in biofilm reactors -- Denitrification -- Combined nitrifiying and denitrifying systems -- Enhanced biological phosphorus removal -- Chemical precipitation of phosphorus -- Enhanced biological phosphorus removal systems -- Combined nitrogen and phosphorus removal processes -- Optimization of nutrient removal systems -- Recycle streams management -- Process control using oxidation-reduction potential and dissolved oxygen -- Process control, instrumentation, and automation -- Laboratory analyses -- Case studies-Nitrification and denitrification -- Case studies-Enhanced biological phosphorus removal -- Appendix A: Optimization and troubleshooting guides.