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Main Title Review of current RBC (Rotating Biological Contactor) performance and design procedures.
Author Weston, R. F.
CORP Author Roy F. Weston, inc.
Publisher U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Water Engineering Research Laboratory,
Year Published 1985
Report Number EPA/600/2-85/033; EPA-68-03-2775; EPA-68-03-3019
Stock Number PB85-180545
Additional Subjects Sewage treatment ; Design criteria ; Performance evaluation ; Surveys ; Biochemical oxygen demand ; Mathematical models ; Fuel consumption ; Field tests ; Equipment ; Rotating biological contactors ; Municipal wastes
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NTIS  PB85-180545 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation 202 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Abstract
The rapid emergence of rotating biological contactor (RBC) technology as an alternative secondary wastewater treatment process has increased the need to review their performance history to provide information to the design engineer. This study, to review and compare current design procedures with field performance, was accomplished by a review of the literature; evaluation of process theory and system characteristics; field survey of plants at or near design flows for process and equipment performance, O&M requirements, and power requirements; and a comparison of design expectations with empirical performance. Equipment performance, centering on shaft failures and media deterioration, was found to be a problem. Process performance was hampered due to oxygen limitation primarily in the first stage, due to organic overloading. For the range of conditions found at the plants surveyed, process performance did not meet design predictions for percent BOD removal or mass BOD removal.
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"Final report Spetember 1979 - August 1984." "March 1985." Microfiche.