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An Updated Process Model for Carbon Oxidation, Nitrification, and Denitrification

Authors: Hiatt, William C; Grady, C. P. Leslie

Source: Water Environment Research, Volume 80, Number 11, November 2008 , pp. 2145-2156(12)

Publisher: Water Environment Federation

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Abstract:

The currently available comprehensive activated sludge models, ASM#1 ( <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="waer-80-11-Grady2">Grady et al., 1986</xref>) and its successor ASM#3 ( <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="waer-80-11-Gujer1">Gujer et al., 1999</xref>), do not adequately describe nitrification and denitrification, with respect to ammonia oxidation inhibition, nitrite accumulation, or emissions of nitric oxide and nitrous oxide. A new comprehensive activated sludge process model, the Activated Sludge Model for Nitrogen (ASMN), is presented. The ASMN incorporates two nitrifying populations—ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria—using free ammonia and free nitrous acid, respectively, as their true substrates. The ASMN incorporates four-step denitrification (sequential reduction of nitrate to nitrogen gas via nitrite, nitric oxide, and nitrous oxide) using individual, reaction-specific parameters. Simulation results for ammonia, nitrate, soluble substrate, and biomass concentrations determined by using ASMN for three activated sludge process configurations under steady-state and dynamic municipal-type influent conditions are shown to be comparable with ASM#1 results.
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