Digging for Answers

The Lab Detective helps an SBR plant’s lead operator figure out why the system is struggling with nitrification and devises a remedy.
Digging for Answers
Figure 1: A positive-displacement blower (Dresser/Roots [GE Energy]) provides aeration for the plant’s sequencing batch reactor.

Joe, the chief plant operator at the city’s wastewater treatment plant, was perplexed. After numerous adjustments to the aeration system and batch times, the facility continued to struggle with nitrifying.

Since the nitrification process was inhibited, the facility was not...

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