Interactions between benthic phosphorus release and sulfur cycling in lake scharmützelsee (Germany)

1997 ◽  
Vol 99 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 391-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Kleeberg
Keyword(s):  
Phosphorus Release ◽  
Sulfur Cycling ◽  
Benthic Phosphorus Release

Soil Variables for Predicting Potential Phosphorus Release in Swedish Noncalcareous Soils

2004 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarina Börling ◽  
Erasmus Otabbong ◽  
Elisabetta Barberis
Keyword(s):  
Phosphorus Release ◽  
Soil Variables

Laboratory Prediction of Phosphorus Release from Deciduous Leaves to Urban Runoff

1995 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Culbert ◽  
Robert France
Keyword(s):  
Total Phosphorus ◽  
Empirical Equation ◽  
Urban Runoff ◽  
Phosphorus Release ◽  
Total Export ◽  
Forested Watershed ◽  
Distilled Water ◽  
Trembling Aspen ◽  
Urban Catchments

Abstract In urban centres, leaves are customarily gathered and temporarily stored in large roadside piles prior to their transport to disposal sites. To simulate the release of total phosphorus to urban runoff, birch and trembling aspen leaves were leached with distilled water in laboratory flasks. There was no difference in rate of total phosphorus release between oven-dried and non-dried leaves. An empirical equation developed from these data and knowledge of the litterfall rates for southern Canada indicated that leaves yielded from 11 to 45 mg TP m−2 of forested watershed. This amount represents up to 5% of the total export of total phosphorus from urban catchments and has the potential to exacerbate eutrophication of municipal waters if leaf pickup is not promptly enforced.

Full Scale Study of Biological Phosphorus Removal Processes

1985 ◽  
Vol 17 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 297-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takao Murakami ◽  
Atsushi Miyairi ◽  
Kazuhiro Tanaka
Keyword(s):  
Flow Rate ◽  
Phosphorus Removal ◽  
Phosphorus Release ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Aeration Tank ◽  
Biological Phosphorus Removal ◽  
Mode 2 ◽  
Removal Processes ◽  
Biological Phosphorus ◽  
Total P

In Japan various biological phosphorus removal processes have recently been researched by laboratory or pilot plant scale studies and most of them have shown good results. Based on these results, the Japan Sewage Works Agency has conducted a full scale study of the biological phosphorus removal process from June 1982 until February 1983, which was the first full scale operation of this process in Japan. The main purpose of the study was to evaluate phosphorus removal efficiency and also nitrogen removal efficiency of the process and in addition, to ascertain the important operating factors of the process. For the study a treatment train of a large scale sewage treatment plant was remodelled. The aeration tank of 3.825 m3 volume was divided into four equal cells. The whole train including return sludge line was operated entirely independently of the other trains. During the experiment the train was operated under two different modes, Mode 1 and Mode 2. In Mode 1, the train was operated as an A/O process, the first cell of the aeration tank being anaerobic and the other cells oxic. In Mode 2, the train was operated as a Modified Phoredox process. In this case, the first cell was anaerobic, but the second cell was anoxic and nitrified liquor was returned to it from the end of the oxic cells. Mode 1 and Mode 2 were further divided into many ‘runs' and the flow rate varied between 12,550 m3 d−1 and 25,270 m3 d−1 , corresponding to retention times of 7.3 hours and 3.6 hours, respectively. Throughout the experimental period the mean value of influent (primary effluent) total-P concentration was 3.38 mg 1−1 , and that of the final effluent was 0.47 mg 1−1 . A cumulated frequency curve of the data showed that about 93% of measured effluent total-P was below 1.0 mg l−1 . Therefore, it can be concluded that with these influent total-P levels, biological phosphorus removal processes can sufficiently satisfy the effluent standard of 1 mg 1−1 total-P. Even when the process was operated as a Modified Phoredox Process, no obstruction to phosphorus removal because of nitrification was observed and phosphorus removal remained good. However, since the sewage treatment plant treated influent from a combined sewerage system, phosphorus removal was sometimes affected by heavy rainfalls. In such cases phosphorus release in the anaerobic cell was insufficient because of increased influent NOx concentration and accordingly increased denitrification level in the anaerobic cell. Therefore, as a result, enhanced phosphorus uptake in the following cells could not be observed. Higher process stability can be expected if an effective countermeasure to high influent NOx concentration can be made. Influence of flow rate fluctuation on the process was also studied. The treatment train was operated for a week under a daily flow rate fluctuation pattern which ranged between 460 m3 hr−1 and 820 m3 hr−1 . Nevertheless, the effluent total-P concentration showed no increase and stayed constantly lower than 0.5 mg 1−1. The oxidation reduction potential (ORP) was an effective control index to evaluate the degree of phosphorus release in the anaerobic cell. Water temperature did not affect phosphorus release and uptake rates.

Phosphorus Release Kinetics in Biofilm Reactors

1992 ◽  
Vol 26 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 567-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. A. Ruiz-Treviño ◽  
S. González-Martínez ◽  
C. Doria-Serrano ◽  
M. Hernández-Esparza
Keyword(s):  
Phosphorus Removal ◽  
Release Kinetics ◽  
Phosphorus Release ◽  
Organic Substrate ◽  
Biofilm Reactor ◽  
Substrate Uptake ◽  
Biofilm Reactors ◽  
Initial Substrate ◽  
Linear Behaviour ◽  
Substrate Concentrations

This paper presents the kinetic analysis, using Generalized Power-Law equations to describe the results of an experimental investigation conducted on a batch submerged biofilm reactor for phosphorus removal under an anaerobic/aerobic cycle. The observed rates and amounts of phosphorus release and organic substrate uptake in the anaerobic phase leads to a kinetic model in which these two variables are dependent on each other with a non-linear behaviour and reach equilibrium values in both cases, at different times and are function of rate constants ratio. The model has a good fit with experimental data except for C uptake at anaerobic contact times longer than four hours, where other kinetics are implied. Kinetic parameters were obtained with different initial substrate concentrations, anaerobic contact cycles, and type of substrates.

SULFUR CYCLING AND PYRITE FORMATION IN MODERN EUXINIC LAKES

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fotios Fouskas ◽  
◽  
William Gilhooly ◽  
Josef P. Werne ◽  
Molly D. O'Beirne
Keyword(s):  
Sulfur Cycling ◽  
Pyrite Formation
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