BIO-Systems are a combined process water and waste water purification
system. It works in a similar way - on a smaller scale - to a fully
automatic biological sewage water plant, using the activated sludge
process. Micro-organisms transform the organic pollutants that are
dissolved in the water and do not therefore settle to form sediment
either into harmless or water-soluble substances or into sludge that
does settle and form sediment. In the course of this process, the
micro-organisms eliminate mineral oils and tensides, while producing
carbon-dioxide and water-soluble mineral salts at the same time -
without the creation of any odour. The BIO Water submerged jet generator
and a fluid bed encourage and accelerate the process. What is left is
„fresh“ recycled water and sediment with an extremely low pollutant
content.
The activated sludge process is the technically most important one for
biological cleaning of waste water from industry and household. The BIO
Water series adapts and adjusts this especially efficient process for
recycling waste water from car and truck wash plants as well as from
roll-over machines.
1. Characterization
The basic technological principle of this treatment process consists of
a reaction basin,
which contains organisms and to which a nutritive substance is added in
the form of waste
water.
For oxygen supply and in order to keep those organisms sustained, the
reaction basin is
aerated and circulated. The organisms keep their state and continuance
by transforming
nutritive substances from the waste water via biochemical process into
bodily substances.
The volume of the water replaced by the addition of new waste water from
the reaction
basin is fed into a separator and there is stablilized so the organisms
can settle. The
cleaned waste water flows off, the settled organisms are fed back into
the reaction basin
or removed from the system.
2. The cleaning carrier substance
The actual carrier of the cleaning work is the so-called activated
sludge. It consists of
numerous single particles with a diameter of an average of 50 to 200 ym
(1000/mm).
The center of this particle consists mainly of inert substances of waste
water such as
alumina which lead to a mostly brownish coloration of the center as well
as heavy metal
oxides, hydroxides and lime. In contrast, the biologically active
peripheral areas slow
bacteria which have a grey color.
The composition of the biologically active periphal area is subject to constant change, which is partly based on the changing waste water water composition, partly a result of intrinsic dynamics, the cause of which is not completely known yet.
3. Functioning of bacteria
The term bacteria characterizes a group of micro-ognisms, which is
extremely varied as far
as shape, physiology and environmental requirement is concerned.
What applies to all bacterias is that they require a wet biospehre, be
it open water or
water contained by damp soil. Bacteria process is mainly organic
substances and return
their components to the natural metabolic circulation.
The transformation which is based exclusively on metabolic proceses
takes place in several
partial steps.
In a first step the macromolecules of the nutritive substance are split
by enzymes from
the interior of the cell. As a second step the cleavage products are
absorbed through the
cell wall and split into their components in several metabolic steps.
This way varios mechanisms make sure building material for further cell
material on the
one hand and energy of the actual metabolic processes on the other hand
is gained.
Remaining substances such as carbondioxide and water are being
discharged through the cell
wall.
Oxygen is always required for any metabolic process. It is mechanically
added to the
reaction basin during the stimulation process and is dissolved in water.
In addition to that, however, a minimum quantity of other elements is
required in the
waste water so that the metabolic process can be accomplished at an
optimum rate.
The most important elements that are artifically added, also in the form
of salts, are
nitrogen and phosporus when there is an acute shortage in the waste
water. In addition to
that, sulphur, potassium and a series of trace elements also play an
important role. With
the exception of nitrogen and oxygen all required substances are
available in excess in
waste water from a roll-over machine, whereas nitrogen, especially
during the initial
phase, has to be increased by adding nitrogenous salts.
Due to the protein character of enzymes the pH value of the waste water
influences the
enzymatic reactions. It shows that different enzymes have a more or less
distinctive pH
optimum. Generally, the ideal range for biological decomposition lies
between 6.5 and 7.5
pH.
Through the release of carbondioxide the buffer capacity of the waste
water towards high
pH values increases dramatically. In addition to that, the waste water
is also neutralized
through the biological decomposition of organic alcali formers, the
tensides.
Temperature has a doubling influence on the rate of biological
reactions.
First of all an increase in temperature generally leads to an increased
rate of the
chemical and biochemical reactions. The increase in speed, however, is
not unlimited since
enzymes are subject to a denaturation process, since their protein
character leads to a
decay with increasing temperature.
According to the kind of macromolecules, which the pollutants and their
cleavage products
in the waste water consist of, different enzymes are necessary for their
transformation.
Since one kind of bacteria can generally only produce relatively few
enzymes, it is a
requirement that there is a large variety of bacteria for a
comprehensive exploitation of
all nutritive substances in the waste water.
In addition to that, many bacteria are capable of changing their enzyme
production such
that they can also process molecules and nutritive substances, which
generally are
considered not or only slightly degradable such as most mineral oils and
mineral oil
solvents.
This process, which develops new enzymes through bacteria for the use of
a new nutritive
substance, is called adaption.
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