THE IMPACT OF REACTOR HEIGHT/DIAMETER (H/D) RATIO ON AEROBIC GRANULAR SLUDGE (AGS) FORMATION IN SEWAGE
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https://doi.org/10.11113/jt.v77.6990Keywords:
AGS, height to diameter ratio, sewageAbstract
Until now, the development of aerobic granules sludge (AGS) has been extensively reported using sequencing batch reactor (SBR) with reactor height/diameter (H/D) ratio of over 10. This is because the formation process of aerobic granules itself is depending upon the flowing trajectory inside reactor indulge by reactor height and superficial air velocity (SUAV). Thus, this study aims to determine effect of reactor H/D ratio on performance of AGS develop in two SBRS with equal working volume and organic loading rate (OLR). The two SBRs namely as SBR1 and SBR2 had a difference in reactor H/D ratio of 11.3 and 4.4, respectively. At an aeration rate of 4 L/min, SUAV for SBR1 was two time higher than in SBR2, which were 1.33 cm/s and 0.7 cm/s, respectively. Thus, the SBR2 configuration condition seems unfavorable for development of compact aerobic granules. However, it was found that aerobic granules can be developed in both SBRs at an OLR as low as 0.12 kg CODs/m3 d and up to 0.49 kg CODs/m3 d. Mature aerobic granules were successfully developed after 49 and 89 days of formation, for Batch1 AGS and Batch2 AGS, respectively. At stable conditions, the highest CODs removal and SS effluent for Batch1 AGS and Batch2 AGS were more than 80% and below 26 mg/L, respectively. While effluent performance in both reactors was high, analysis on SVI30 indicated that SBR1 produced more sludge than SBR2. Compare to SBR1, at similar settling time of 15 min, SBR2 provide a short settling distance for biomass which was preferable in case of system breakdown due to shock OLR.
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