Nitrogen and phosphorus removal from swine wastewater by intermittently aerated dynamic-flow system

This study was performed to evaluate the effects of the volume fraction of an anaerobic reactor (VFAR) and SRT on the removal of T-N and T-P in both an intermittently aerated system (IAS) and intermittently aerated dynamic-flow system (IADS), respectively. When the VFAR in the total volume of reactor from both IAS and IADS are 13%, 7%, and 0% at 5 days of SRT, the removal efficiencies of T-P were 80-87%, 62-65% and <30%, respectively. However, it was observed from this study that the removal efficiencies of T-N and T-P were not correlated to VFAR at a predetermined SRT, producing greater than 5000 mg/L of MLVSS. Also, IADS was shown to have the greater buffer capacity and adaptability to resist the shock due to the loading of high concentration of N. Furthermore, IADS achieved over 80% of removal efficiency of N even at much lower C/N ratio of 4.7. Therefore, it seems that IADS has the significant advantages over other biological nutrients removal processes.