Apparatus and method for synchronously treating sewage and sludge through combination of step-feed partial nitrification and anaerobic ammonia oxidation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12448310-B2
Application number	US-202217983786-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 9, 2022
Priority date	Feb 9, 2021
Publication date	Oct 21, 2025
Grant date	Oct 21, 2025

Abstract

Disclosed is an apparatus and method for synchronously treating sewage and sludge through a step-feed partial nitrification coupling anaerobic ammonia oxidation process, belonging to the biological treatment field. Ammonia rich landfill leachate is firstly pumped into an aerobic reactor to realize partial nitrification process; exogenous surplus sludge coupling with partial nitrification reactor effluent are input to an anoxic reactor together for achieving integrated fermentation and denitrification process; finally, effluent from the anoxic reactor is pumped into an integrated autotrophic nitrogen removal reactor by a step-feed mode, the integrated reactor contains two main running units of aeration and anoxic stirring, ammonia is oxidized into nitrite in aeration stage, and the generated nitrite and ammonia contained in secondary influent are further removed through anammox process which operates stably and reliably, realizes efficient nitrogen removal from landfill leachate without external carbon source addition, and realizes the purpose of exogenous excess sludge reduction simultaneously.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus for synchronously treating sewage and sludge through a step-feed partial nitrification-anaerobic ammonia oxidation process, comprising a partial nitrification reactor (PN-SBR), a first middle water tank, a sludge storage tank, a sludge fermentation and denitrification coupled reactor (IFD-SBR), a second middle water tank, an integrated autotrophic nitrogen removal reactor (PNA-SBR), a PLC control system and an online detection device; wherein
the PN-SBR is provided with a first stirrer, a first real-time online monitoring device, a first water inlet peristaltic pump, a first water inlet, a first air compressor, a first water outlet and a first water outlet peristaltic pump; the first middle water tank is provided with a second water inlet and a second water outlet; the sludge storage tank is provided with a first sludge outlet; the IFD-SBR is provided with a second stirrer, a third water inlet, a first sludge inlet, a third water outlet and a second real-time online monitoring device; the second middle water tank is provided with a fourth water inlet and a fourth water outlet; the PNA-SBR is provided with a third stirrer, a third online monitoring device, a second water inlet peristaltic pump, a fifth water inlet, a second air compressor and a fifth water outlet;
the first water inlet peristaltic pump is connected with the first water inlet of the PN-SBR, the first water outlet is connected with the second water inlet of the first middle water tank through the first water outlet peristaltic pump, the second water outlet of the first middle water tank is connected with the third water inlet of the IFD-SBR, the first sludge outlet of the sludge storage tank is connected with the first sludge inlet of the IFD-SBR, the third water outlet of the IFD-SBR is connected with the fourth water inlet of the second middle water tank, and the fourth water outlet of the second middle water tank is connected with the fifth water inlet of the PNA-SBR through the second water inlet peristaltic pump.

2. A method for synchronously treating sewage and sludge through a step-feed partial nitrification-anaerobic ammonia oxidation three-stage process by applying the apparatus according to claim 1 , comprising a following process:
1) Turning on a first water inlet peristaltic pump to pump mature landfill leachate raw water into a PN-SBR with a water inlet flow rate of 1 L/min, turning on a first air compressor and a first stirrer, and counting and summarizing pH and DO real-time online monitoring indexes in the PN-SBR by an online monitoring device; controlling DO=0.5-0.6 mg/L; and as partial nitrification is a biological process of consuming alkalinity, when alkalinity is not consumed anymore and a pH curve stops falling or an inflection point of ammonia valley point appears, turning off the first air compressor and the first stirrer to stop aeration and stirring, precipitating for 30 min, and discharging effluent into a first middle water tank ( 2 ) according to a volume ratio of 50%;
2) Surplus sludge in a sludge storage tank ( 3 ) coupled with effluent from the PN-SBR is simultaneously pumped into an IFD-SBR; and when the pH curve does not rise anymore or an inflection point of nitrite elbow appears, turning off a second stirrer to stop stirring, precipitating for 2 h, and discharging effluent into a second middle water tank according to a volume ratio of 41.7%; and
3) the PNA-SBR comprising a second water inlet, aeration, a fifth water inlet, anoxic stirring, precipitation and effluent discharging units; quickly pumping sewage in the second middle water tank into the PNA-SBR at beginning stages of aeration and anoxic by the volume ratio of 1.5:1, wherein influent ammonia is oxidized into nitrite in aeration stage, and when the pH curve stops falling or the ammonia valley point appears in pH curve, turning off the second air compressor to stop aeration; and the nitrite generated in the aeration stage and ammonia in secondary influent are removed by Anammox process in the anoxic stirring stage, when the pH curve does not rise anymore or a first derivative of the pH curve is smaller than 0.1, stopping stirring, precipitating for 30 min, and discharging effluent.

Assignees

• Univ Beijing Technology

Inventors

• Peng Yongzhen
• Zhang Fangzhai
• Wang Zhong
• Jiang Hao
• Ren Shang
• Qui Jingang

Classifications

• C02F2209/22

  O2 · CPC title

• Y02W10/10

  Biological treatment of water, waste water, or sewage · CPC title

• C02F11/04 Primary

  Anaerobic treatment; Production of methane by such processes · CPC title

• C02F3/302 Primary

  Nitrification and denitrification treatment (C02F3/308 takes precedence) · CPC title

• C02F2303/06

  Sludge reduction, e.g. by lysis · CPC title