A moving-boundary model of reactive settling in wastewater treatment. Part 1 : Governing equations
(2022) In Applied Mathematical Modelling 106. p.390-401- Abstract
Reactive settling is the process of sedimentation of small solid particles in a fluid with simultaneous reactions between the components of the solid and liquid phases. This process is important in sequencing batch reactors (SBRs) in wastewater treatment plants. In that application the particles are biomass (bacteria; activated sludge) and the liquid contains substrates (nitrogen, phosphorus) to be removed through reactions with the biomass. The operation of an SBR in cycles of consecutive fill, react, settle, draw, and idle stages is modelled by a system of spatially one-dimensional, nonlinear, strongly degenerate parabolic convection-diffusion-reaction equations. This system is coupled via conditions of mass conservation to transport... (More)
Reactive settling is the process of sedimentation of small solid particles in a fluid with simultaneous reactions between the components of the solid and liquid phases. This process is important in sequencing batch reactors (SBRs) in wastewater treatment plants. In that application the particles are biomass (bacteria; activated sludge) and the liquid contains substrates (nitrogen, phosphorus) to be removed through reactions with the biomass. The operation of an SBR in cycles of consecutive fill, react, settle, draw, and idle stages is modelled by a system of spatially one-dimensional, nonlinear, strongly degenerate parabolic convection-diffusion-reaction equations. This system is coupled via conditions of mass conservation to transport equations on a half line, whose origin is located at a moving boundary and that model the effluent pipe. An invariant-region-preserving finite difference scheme is used to simulate operating cycles and the denitrification process within an SBR.
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- Bürger, Raimund ; Careaga, Julio LU ; Diehl, Stefan LU and Pineda, Romel
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- publishing date
- 2022-06
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
- subject
- keywords
- Convection-diffusion-reaction PDE, Degenerate parabolic PDE, Moving boundary, Sedimentation, Sequencing batch reactor
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- Applied Mathematical Modelling
- volume
- 106
- pages
- 12 pages
- publisher
- Elsevier
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- scopus:85125250212
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- 0307-904X
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.apm.2022.01.018
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- English
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- yes
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- a9709f11-65ec-4548-a4a8-0f1c27e0e8e3
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