Performance Assessment of Confined Tube Aerators in Parallel Configuration
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Abstract
Aeration plays a major role in the activated-sludge wastewater treatment process. Microbes require an oxygen-enriched environment to digest organic materials and remove nutrients from the wastewater stream. For providing this oxygen, artificial aeration is required, which is responsible for the majority of energy use in treatment plants. Typically, this is accomplished with diffused aerators, where pressurized air is forced through a porous medium at the bottom of deep basins, and bubbles float up through the water column transferring oxygen in the process. This is a relatively energy-intensive process, which is prone to fouling at the porous media. In this study, a Confined Tube Aeration (CTA) system is proposed, where a pump forces water through a Venturi injector, where air is naturally drawn in. At the Venturi discharge, the flow is diverted to a coiled tube in which oxygen transfer occurs. This study analyzes the effect of parallelizing the CTA system with multiple injectors and at varying pump speeds (flow rates). Using experimental and analytical means, the maximum standard aeration efficiency was found to be with three injectors in parallel, at maximum pump speed, and utilizing a CTA with diameter 31.75 mm and length 3.048 m. This value was found to be 0.542 kg O 2 /kWh, and represents a 25% increase over the single-injector case. Although the analyses herein utilize a relatively small (0.746 kW) pump, these results indicate that CTA systems may scale well to larger pump sizes necessary for full-scale municipal wastewater treatment.
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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