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Understanding and Optimizing Peracetic Acid Disinfection Processes Using Computational Fluid Dynamics: The Case Study of Nocera (Italy) Wastewater Treatment Plant
- Source :
- Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering ISBN: 9783319584201
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Springer International Publishing, 2017.
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Abstract
- In this paper, a modeling study focused on optimizing the PAA disinfection performance in a full-scale contact tank currently operated at the Nocera (Italy) Wastewater Treatment Plant is presented. The disinfection process was monitored for over 2 weeks by collecting full-scale data on plant variability in flow, disinfectant demand/decay and microbial concentrations. A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of the contact tank describing the PAA disinfection process was developed. Four disinfection scenarios were analysed using an Eulerian-Lagrangian approach: (a) PAA disinfection under the existing conditions; (b) PAA disinfection with PAA pre-mixed prior to the contact tank; (c) PAA disinfection with PAA dosed with 8 injection points distributed over the entire length of the inlet weir; (d) PAA disinfection in an optimized plug-flow contact tank. All these scenarios were analysed for the same operating conditions, i.e. fixed flow, PAA demand/decay and inactivation kinetics. The model-based analysis clearly revealed that the optimized contact tank (scenario d) was able to achieve a much higher contact and extended between microorganisms and disinfectant thus resulting into a five-fold increase in microbial inactivation.
- Subjects :
- Computational fluid dynamics, Peracetic acid, Wastewater disinfection
business.industry
Inactivation kinetics
Disinfectant
Environmental engineering
Computational fluid dynamics
Peracetic acid
Microbial inactivation
chemistry.chemical_compound
Wastewater disinfection
chemistry
Environmental science
Sewage treatment
business
Subjects
Details
- ISBN :
- 978-3-319-58420-1
- ISBNs :
- 9783319584201
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering ISBN: 9783319584201
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4092385180b7e4dd0d7b15e641f92a9c