The need for automation & measurement technologies to detect the process state has been a driving force in the development of various measurements at wastewater treatment plants. While the number of applications of automation & measurement technologies to the field is increasing, there have only been a few cases where they have been applied to the area of sludge settling. This is because it is not easy to develop an automated operation support system for the detection of sludge settleability due to its site-specific characteristics. To automate the human operator's daily test and diagnosis works on sludge settling, an on-line SV30 measurement was developed and an automated detection algorithm on settleability was developed that imitated heuristics to detect settleability faults. The automated SV30 measurement is based on automatic pumping with a predefined schedule, the image capture of the settling test with a digital camera, and an analysis of the images to detect the settled sludge height. A sludge settleability detection method was developed and its applicability was investigated by field application.
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October 01 2011
Sludge settleability detection using automated SV30 measurement and its application to a field WWTP
Y. J. Kim;
Y. J. Kim
1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan, 609-735, Korea
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S. J. Choi;
S. J. Choi
1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan, 609-735, Korea
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C. W. Kim
1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan, 609-735, Korea
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Water Sci Technol (2011) 64 (8): 1743–1749.
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Received:
July 26 2010
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September 24 2010
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Y. J. Kim, S. J. Choi, H. Bae, C. W. Kim; Sludge settleability detection using automated SV30 measurement and its application to a field WWTP. Water Sci Technol 1 October 2011; 64 (8): 1743–1749. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2011.078
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