One treatment facility which has design capacity of 50,000 ㎥/day has difficulty to meet effluent BOD and T-N limits during winter season, although average inflow and daily maximum inflow are 35,328 and 46,540 ㎥/d, respectively. High influent BOD a...
One treatment facility which has design capacity of 50,000 ㎥/day has difficulty to meet effluent BOD and T-N limits during winter season, although average inflow and daily maximum inflow are 35,328 and 46,540 ㎥/d, respectively. High influent BOD and T-N concentrations are believed to be culprits for these effluent limit violations. EQPS (Effluent Quality Prediction System) is used to provide the suggestion to meet effluent limits in winter season. In order to find diurnal concentration variation of influent, 24-hour sampling and measurement campaign was carried out, Daily influent measurement data along with diurnal concentration data were used as input data for EQPS simulation. Also, organic fractions in influent were defined experimentally. At the beginning study, influent equalization basin was considered to meet effluent T-N limit, However, the effluent ammonia concentration was more than 1.5 ㎎/L which is criterion of nitrification. For this study, the nitrification criterion is defined as below 1.5 ㎎/L of ammonia nitrogen. For above this concentration, denitrification is assumed not to occurred due to nitrification failure. According to this criterion, EQPS simulation found that studying facility could handle only 45,000 ㎥/d in winter which was less than 10 % of design flow. Although 45,000 ㎥/d capacity can handle current flows which has daily maximum flow of 37,645 ㎥/d in winter season, this study facility is determined to retrofit to treat design inflow of 50,000 ㎥/d to accompany wastewater from future land development. Through many simulations, 6th train has to be operated. When this studying facility was constructed, only 5 trains were operated, although total of 6 train were built, the 6th train was built as civil structure without mechanical and IC (Instrument and control) systems. This study found that this studing facilty can handle design flow which is 50,000 ㎥/d, if 6th train is operational. From this study, it is found that 1) EQPS can be an effective tool to define treament capacity of wastewater treatment facilty, 2) it is needed to train operators to handle model to find the optimum operational strategy, 3) integrated drainage area management is needed to improve water quality in discharging lake and 4) continuous monitoring of diurnal influent characteristics is needed to increase reliability of predication from model simulation.