Effect of Flow Rate Increase on the Performance of a Pilot-Scale Biological Nutrient Removal Reactor
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Nutrient removal in two identical pilot-scale reactors is assessed at influent flow rates of 30, 45, and 60 L/min. The bacteria community structure of nitrifiers and denitrifiers and the protein:polysaccharide ratio (PN/PS) in extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) are monitored at each flow rate. Except for the chemical oxygen demand (COD), the reactor performance in terms of ammonia and phosphorous removal begins to deteriorate at the 45 L/min influent flow rate. Nitrobacter are more dominant than are nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB). The PN/PS ratio in sludge EPS significantly decreases as the solids retention time (SRT) decreases from 9.3 to 2.2 days. The PN/PS ratio temporarily increases in response to an increase in flow rate before normalizing to a steadier value.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".