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A comparative examination of MBR and SBR performance for municipal wastewater treatment

Author(s) -

Sarra Kitanou,

Hafida Ayyoub,

J. Touir,

A. Zdeg,

Sihem Benabdallah,

Mohamed Taky,

Azzedine Elmidaoui

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

water practice and technology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.243

H-Index - 15

ISSN - 1751-231X

DOI - 10.2166/wpt.2021.016

Subject(s) - membrane bioreactor , wastewater , effluent , chemical oxygen demand , anoxic waters , sequencing batch reactor , biochemical oxygen demand , bioreactor , pulp and paper industry , environmental science , chemistry , sewage treatment , waste management , environmental engineering , environmental chemistry , engineering , organic chemistry

In this study, the performance of the membrane bioreactor (MBR) and anoxic–aerobic sequencing batch reactor (SBR) are compared in treating municipal wastewater. The aim of the work was to determine the feasibility of these systems for the removal of organics matter and nutriments from the municipal wastewater. The MBR displayed a superior performance with removal efficiencies exceeding 99% for TSS, 94% for chemical oxygen demand (COD) and an improvement on SBR efficiencies was found. In the same way, the MBR produced an effluent with much better quality than SBR in terms of total nitrogen (TN) and total phosphorus (TP) removal efficiencies. Combining membrane separation and biodegradation processes or the membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology improved pollution removal efficiencies significantly.

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