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Real-Time Control System Based on the Values of Derivative of the Redox Potential Aiming Nitrogen Removal in a Sequencing Batch Reactor Applied in Treating Dairy Wastewater

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This paper presents a real-time control strategy based on the derivative of the oxi-reduction potential (ORP) values for nitrogen removal via nitrite in a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) fed with effluent from an anaerobic sequencing batch reactor (ASBR) treating dairy wastewater. The developed control strategy optimized the length of aerobic and anoxic phases without external carbon source addition. Firstly, a fixed interval length for aeration period was used in the SBR cycle to promote the nitrogen removal; however, this strategy did not allow the proper alternation of anoxic and aerobic conditions, and thus effective removal of nitrogen was not verified. After that, the real-time control strategy was implemented, and the end of nitrification and denitrification processes was determined when the derivative of the oxi-reduction potential (ORP) was close to zero. This strategy provided a removal of 92.2 ± 9.7 and 63.9 ± 19.0% for concentrations of TKN-N and Nt-N, respectively, which were well above those found for the open-loop system—43.8 ± 21.6 and 26.5 ± 26.2% for the removal of TKN-N and Nt-N, respectively.

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This study was supported by the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP, Brasil, process numbers 2007/54589-4 and 2008/11120-9). We would also like to thank Michael James Stablein of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for his translation services and review of this work.

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  1. Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology, Department of Food Engineering, Faculty of Animal Science and Food Engineering, University of São Paulo (USP), Av. Duque de Caxias Norte, 225, Pirassununga, SP, 13635-900, Brazil

    Rogers Ribeiro, Fábio Lima, Vitor H. T. Okamoto & Giovana Tomamso

  2. Department of Basic Science, Faculty of Animal Science and Food Engineering, University of São Paulo (USP), Av. Duque de Caxias Norte, 225, Pirassununga, SP, 13635-900, Brazil

    Gustavo V. von Atzingen, Aldo I. C. Arce & Ernane J. X. da Costa

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Ribeiro, R., von Atzingen, G.V., Lima, F. et al. Real-Time Control System Based on the Values of Derivative of the Redox Potential Aiming Nitrogen Removal in a Sequencing Batch Reactor Applied in Treating Dairy Wastewater. Water Air Soil Pollut 228, 231 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-017-3401-x

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