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Factors Affecting the Start-up and the Efficiency of Nitrification Process during Biological Pre-treatment of Fugate
Brychtová, Martina ; Švehla, Pavel (advisor) ; Iva, Iva (referee)
The thesis deals with assessment of the effect of pH value, temperature, concentration of toxic forms of nitrogen, concentration of dissolved oxygen and other factors on the process of start-up of the nitrification reactor serving for biological pre-treatment of fugate. Another objective of this thesis is to assess the effect of the conditions prevailing in the reactor on the efficiency of transformation of N-ammon to oxidized forms of nitrogen.
During the system start-up, nitrifying activated sludge sampled from the regeneration zone of the activation process at the Central Waste Water Treatment Plant in Prague was used as inoculum. The laboratory model with suspended biomass consisted of a nitrification
reactor, the working volume of which was 1.5 l in the first part of the experiment and 5 l in the second part of the experiment. The system start-up lasted from 17 April 2015 to
approximately 12 May 2015 (days 0 to 32). N-ammon concentration in the inflow ranged from 1660 mg/l to 3000 mg/l. Volume loading of ammonia-nitrogen in the reactor ranged from 0.1 to 0.4 kg/(m3.d). During the experiment, the dissolved oxygen concentration ranged 3.6 to 6.8 mg/l, and the temperature range was 23 C°.
The performed experiment confirmed that it is possible to start up and maintain longterm the nitrification process also in fugate from a biogas station. It has been proved that despite the extreme characteristics of fugate, the nitrification process can be incorporated from the first days of the reactor operation. From the beginning of the experiment, N-NO3 was abundantly generated. N-ammon oxidizing efficiency ranged between 90 and 99 % and
influenced particular by pH values.
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