Heavy metal inhibition on an alternating activated sludge system and its comparison to conventional methods: case study of Cu<SUP>2+</SUP>
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2021
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Balku, Şaziye
Balku, Saziye
Özalp Yaman, Şeniz
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Iwa Publishing
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In order to understand the behaviour of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) with heavy metal presence, the present study evaluates the treatment process in the presence of heavy metals (Cu2+ as a case study) and compares it with the absence of heavy metals. An activated sludge model is improved by means of incorporating other novel inhibitory kinetic and settler models for this evaluation. To achieve this goal, a simulation algorithm is developed using the MATLAB code to detect any heavy metal influence on the aerobic and anoxic growth of heterotrophic and autotrophic biomass. The code also allows for a comparison of treatment plant performance with and without Cu2+ in both conventional and alternating systems. The results reveal that the presence of heavy metals, in case of the present study for Cu2+ at 0.5 mg/L, in a biological treatment system, has an inhibitory effect on the heterotrophic bacteria but more so on the autotrophic bacteria growth and it prevents nitrification and denitrification, thus negatively effecting on the nitrogen removal in the alternating systems.
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Ozalp Yaman, Seniz/0000-0002-4166-0529; Buaisha, Dr.Magdi/0000-0001-9879-968X
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alternating systems, ASM3, autotrophs, copper inhibition, heterotrophs
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84
Issue
4
Start Page
892
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905