Two-sludge technology is a representative of denitrifying phosphorus removal technologies and has potential advantage in treating municipal wastewater with low carbon source. There have a large number of reports about the technology
but few concerned with the modeling of it. So this paper was aim to develop a mathematical model which can be used to simulate the processes of Two-sludge system. A series of kinetic models which were simplified to linear form basing on some assumption and referencing to ASM2D were adopted to represent the main biochemical processes including phosphorus release(organic storing under anaerobic condition)
nitrating
aerobic biodegradability of organic and denitrifying phosphorus uptake. Then the model of Two-sludge technology was developed on the base of material balance and the principal components of the model were a set of linear equations. The input variables of the model include water quality parameters
HRT of each reactor
MLSS of anaerobic tank
MLSS of nitrifying tank
reflux ratio and transfluence ratio.The kinetic parameters and stoichiometry parameter of the model can be estimated base on experiment data. In this paper
the values of the reaction rate constants of organic storing under anaerobic condition
aerobic biodegradability of organic in nitrifying tank
nitrating in nitrifying tank
aerobic biodegradability of organic in postpositional aeration tank and phosphorus uptake in postpositional aeration tank were estimated from the run datum of a Two-sludge system pilot and the values were respectively 0.29 L/(g.h)
0.26 L/(g.h)
0.64 L/(g.h)
0.31 L/(g.h)
0.20 L/(g.h)
2.326 L/(g.h).The stoichiometry parameters were also estimated from experiment. The stoichiometry relation between the organic consumption and denitrification is 10.03g(COD)/g(N)
the stoichiometry relation between phosphorus release and organic storing is 0.2g(P)/g(COD) and that between denitrification and phosphorus uptake is 0.98g(N)/g(P).It is worthy of special mention that
the reaction rate denitrifying phosphorus uptake is expressed as the product of the duration of the phosphorus uptake and the average rate of denitrifying phosphorus uptake per MLSS( KP-upt) reflect the effect of phosphorus release on denitrifying phosphorus uptake because it was shown by the former experiment that the value of KP-upt is related with the amount of phosphorus release per MLSS and duration of the phosphorus uptake. The value of KP-upt can be got from a table which reflect the KP-upt relation of
the amount of phosphorus release per MLSS and duration of the phosphorus uptake. The table can be drawn from denitrifying phosphorus uptake. But not as other parameters
the value of KP-upt can’t be ascertained before the model being solved
for the amount of phosphorus release is unknown
so the solution of the model can’t be obtained by solving linear equations in on time. For that problem
trial balance method was adopted. The model was verified by experiment
and it was proved that the model can simulate the variation of the concentration of each kind of pollutant of every unit of Two-sludge system well
but the high accuracy was possibly benefit from the mutual offset of difference partially,So further study is still needed.