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Record W2804820596 · doi:10.7939/r39z90j97

Biodegradation of Fat, Oil, and Grease (FOG) in Wet Wells

2014· article· en· W2804820596 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Gaoteng Fan

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of Alberta Library · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicMicrobial bioremediation and biosurfactants
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGreaseBiodegradationEnvironmental sciencePetroleumWaste managementPetroleum engineeringEnvironmental chemistryEnvironmental engineeringChemistryGeologyEngineering

Abstract

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Fat, oil, and grease (FOG) in wastewater can cause foul odor, sewer line blockage, and may interfere with sewage treatment. FOG control is approached with physical, chemical, and biological methods Many cities, including Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, have effectively applied commercial biological products to control FOG. Analysis of samples collected from wet wells in Edmonton was undertaken to examine the factors that influence the FOG control performance of commercial biological products. Field sampling showed a seasonal variation of FOG and COD concentrations indicating that the higher temperature in the summer-autumn term compared to the winter-spring term benefited FOG removal. The lowest FOG concentration (49.3 mg/L) was observed when the products were applied with a mixer on in summer-autumn term, which suggests the importance of oxygen and thorough mixing. Based on the results of wet well sample analyses, bench-scale experiments investigated the impacts on FOG removal of product dosage, initial COD, and temperature. Addition of 1000 times the recommended dosage of the commercial products increased FOG removal from 35.5% (achieved at the recommended dosage) to 41.1% in 14 days with an initial COD of 600 mg/L in 14 days. FOG removal increased from 29.8% to 48.0% with an increase in temperature from 15 °C to 32 °C. Suggestions to improve FOG control with commercial biological product application are proposed.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.121
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.004
GPT teacher head0.145
Teacher spread0.142 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2014
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