Vertical sewage treatment device and method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9845257-B2
Application number	US-201415102500-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 27, 2014
Priority date	Dec 10, 2013
Publication date	Dec 19, 2017
Grant date	Dec 19, 2017

Abstract

The present invention provides a vertical sewage treatment device including an anaerobic chamber, an anoxic chamber, an aerobiotic chamber, and a secondary precipitation chamber, wherein the anaerobic chamber, the anoxic chamber, the aerobiotic chamber, and the secondary precipitation chamber are vertically arranged in sequence from the bottom to the top. According to another aspect, the present invention also provides a sewage treatment method using the foregoing vertical sewage treatment device. The sewage treatment device and method of the present invention have the advantages such as a reduced occupied area, improved oxygenation efficiency, a decreased head loss, a reduced invalid structure volume, and a low heat loss.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vertical sewage treatment device, comprising an anaerobic compartment, an anoxic compartment, an aerobic compartment and a secondary sedimentation compartment, wherein the anaerobic compartment, the anoxic compartment, the aerobic compartment and the secondary sedimentation compartment are vertically arranged in sequence from bottom to top,
wherein a horizontal orifice plate or mesh is employed to mesh divide between the anaerobic compartment and the anoxic compartment and between the anoxic compartment and the aerobic compartment,
wherein a horizontal grid plate is employed to mesh divide between the aerobic compartment and the secondary sedimentation compartment, and a side of the horizontal grid plate is retained with a passageway for the mixed liquid within the aerobic compartment to enter the secondary sedimentation compartment, and at a side of the passageway, the horizontal grid plate connects a downwardly vertical grid plate, a height of which is greater than that of a gas-water separation area in the aerobic compartment.

2. The vertical sewage treatment device according to claim 1 , wherein both sides out of the anaerobic compartment are arranged with a first mixing pump, a sludge backflow pump and pipelines; the sludge backflow pump transporting sedimented sludge in the secondary sedimentation compartment to the anaerobic compartment, the mixing pump mixing newly-entering sewage in the anaerobic compartment with backflow sludge.

3. The vertical sewage treatment device according to claim 2 , wherein both sides out of the anoxic compartment are arranged with a second mixing pump, a mixed liquid backflow pump and pipelines, the mixed liquid backflow pump transporting mixed liquid of the aerobic compartment to the anoxic compartment, the second mixing pump mixing the mixed liquid in the anoxic compartment.

4. The vertical sewage treatment device according to claim 3 , wherein a jet aerator, a booster pump and a blower are arranged at both sides out of the aerobic compartment so as to provide oxygen for a biological reaction within the aerobic compartment.

5. The vertical sewage treatment device according to claim 4 , wherein a gas aerated in the aerobic compartment rises to a gas-water separation area on the top thereof, is exhausted via a gas exhaust pipe.

6. The vertical sewage treatment device according to claim 5 , wherein a gas-water separator is disposed at an outlet of the gas exhaust pipe; a water-spraying apparatus is disposed within the gas exhaust pipe, for eliminating foams and scum generated on a surface of the aerobic compartment.

7. The vertical sewage treatment device according to claim 1 , wherein a mud-sucking pipe is arranged within the secondary sedimentation compartment, a mud-sucking machine is disposed on the top of the mud-sucking pipe, sedimented sludge on a bottom of the secondary sedimentation compartment is sucked out by the mud-sucking machine via the mud-sucking pipe, a part of the sucked sedimented sludge flows by the sludge backflow pump back to the anaerobic compartment as the backflow sludge to re-participate in a biological degradation reaction, the other part of the sucked sedimented sludge is drained out in a form of remaining sludge.

8. The vertical sewage treatment device according to claim 1 , wherein when multiple sets of vertical sewage treatment devices operate in parallel, an underwater equipment corridor is employed, and the first mixing pump, the second mixing pump, the jet aerator, the booster pump and blower of various devices are arranged in the underwater equipment corridor.

9. A method of treating sewage using a vertical sewage treatment device according to claim 1 , comprising steps:
(1) performing a primary treatment on the sewage through a grit chamber and a primary sedimentation tank;
(2) enabling the sewage to enter from underneath the vertical sewage treatment device, under a pressure of a sewage pump, to the anaerobic compartment, the anoxic compartment, the aerobic compartment and the secondary sedimentation compartment in sequence, and finally draining out water from above;
wherein within the anaerobic compartment, the sewage is mixed with backflow sludge transported from the secondary sedimentation compartment, phosphorus accumulating bacteria in the sludge perform anaerobic phosphorus release utilizing dissolved organics in original sewage;
in the anoxic compartment, denitrifying bacteria in the sludge from the anaerobic compartment utilize a mixing of remaining organics and nitrate in the mixed liquid transported from the aerobic compartment and perform denitrification;
in the aerobic compartment, nitrifying bacteria in the sludge from the anoxic compartment perform nitrification under an oxygen-rich condition to transform ammonia nitrogen in the sewage into nitrate, meanwhile phosphorus accumulating bacteria perform aerobic phosphorus absorption, the remaining organics are also oxidized by aerobic bacteria here;
in the secondary sedimentation compartment, water is separated from sludge, the treated water is discharged via a water outlet, sedimented sludge returns to the anaerobic compartment, phosphorous is drained out in a form of remaining phosphorus-rich sludge.

Assignees

• Chinese Res Acad Env Sciences

Inventors

• Xiang Liancheng
• Song Yonghui
• Wu Junqi
• Wang Siyu
• Li Jianping
• Liu Xingfa

Classifications

• C02F3/305

  characterised by the denitrification · CPC title

• C02F2203/006

  details of construction, e.g. specially adapted seals, modules, connections · CPC title

• C02F3/308

  Biological phosphorus removal · CPC title

• C02F3/301 Primary

  Aerobic and anaerobic treatment in the same reactor · CPC title

• C02F3/302

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