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ArticleWater environment research : a research publication of the Water Environment Federation2024

Biofilm characterization and dynamic simulation of advanced rope media reactor for the treatment of primary effluent.

Wudneh A Shewa, Lin Sun, Kevin Bossy, Martha Dagnew

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Article in Water environment research : a research publication of the Water Environment Federation, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Biofilm characterization and dynamic simulation of advanced rope media reactor for the treatment of primary effluent.Water environment research : a research publication of the Water Environment Federation · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Wudneh A ShewaDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Western University, London, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9605-3355
Lin SunDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Western University, London, ON, Canada.
Kevin BossyBishop Water Inc., Arnprior, ON, Canada.
Martha DagnewDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Western University, London, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7998-1096

Funding

MITACSNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biofilm modeling is inherently complex, often requiring multiple assumptions and simplifications. In biofilm modeling, default or literature-based values in biofilm systems are usually used to estimate biofilm parameters, including boundary layer, biofilm density, thickness, attachment, and detachment rates. This study aimed to characterize and model the biofilm of a specific rope-type fixed media system, removing carbon and total inorganic nitrogen, coupled with sensitivity analysis. Among the five model parameters, the sensitivity analysis of this study showed that boundary layer thickness is the most influential parameter for predicting effluent ammonia and nitrate concentrations, and biofilm density is most sensitive with respect to effluent chemical oxygen demand (COD). The least sensitive parameter is the detachment rate. Based on the calculated mean absolute error (MAE) and root mean squared error (RMSE), the calibrated BioCord fixed-film reactor (BFFR) model accurately predicted effluent ammonium and dissolved oxygen (DO) in the continuously aerated bench-scale reactor (R1) and failed to predict well in the intermittently aerated bench-scale reactor (R2). RMSE values calculated for NH

Indexed as

BiofilmsBioreactorsWaste Disposal, FluidAmmoniaModels, TheoreticalNitratesWastewaterWater PurificationAmmoniaNitratesWastewaterBioCordbiofilmfixed‐film reactormodelingnitrogen removal

Identifiers

PMID39542869
PMCPMC11578940

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