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The Production of High‐Quality Effluents in Sewage Treatment Using the Biocarbone Process
Author(s) -
LILLY W.,
BOURN G.,
CRABTREE H.,
UPTON J.,
THOMAS V.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
water and environment journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1747-6593
pISSN - 1747-6585
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-6593.1991.tb00598.x
Subject(s) - effluent , sewage , sewage treatment , filtration (mathematics) , biochemical oxygen demand , suspended solids , environmental science , waste management , process (computing) , water quality , environmental engineering , chemical oxygen demand , wastewater , engineering , computer science , ecology , mathematics , biology , statistics , operating system
The Biocarbone process is a new system for water and effluent purification in which biological treatment and physical filtration take place in the same reactor. Because the use of the process for tertiary treatment of sewage effluent had not been fully investigated, a pilot‐scale evaluation was undertaken at Severn Trent's Wigston sewage‐treatment works. This paper presents the results. The study corroborates performance information published by the manufacturer. It shows that the process is an alternative to conventional technology for producing fully‐nitrified tertiary effluents having low biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and suspended solids (SS) concentrations.