Reactor and process for biologically treating sewage
US6488851B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 2, 2001 |
| Grant date | Dec 3, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 2, 2021 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02W10/10
- WIPO fieldEnvironmental technology
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
The present invention provides a reactor and process for the biological treatment of sewage, being transferred, by gravitational forces with a substantially constant flow rate (Q), through an array of successively alternating aerobic and anaerobic compartments (14, 16) for, respectively, aerobic and anaerobic degradation of biodegradable substances in said sewage, the compartments, which form part of the reactor of the invention, are separated by partition walls (50) and each has a top area (S), the passage of the sewage from an aerobic compartment (16) to its adjacent succeeding anaerobic compartment (14) is provided at the bottom of their common partition wall, while the transfer of sewage from an anaerobic compartment to its adjacent aerobic compartment is performed by means of gravity-caused flow over their common partition wall, whereby oxygen required for the aerobic treatment is dissolved into the sewage via an air-sewage interface at the top area of the anaerobic and aerobic compartments forming thereby a dissolution layer, the depth of oxygen dissolution and, consequently, the oxygen concentration in the dissolution layer at the top area of the compartments being defined b…
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