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What are the function and application principle of an anaerobic tower?
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2022-12-12 13:38
What are the function and application principle of an anaerobic tower?
Anaerobic towers are commonly used equipment in wastewater treatment, which can appropriately reduce Anaerobic tower the thickness of the filler layer in the biofilter, leaving a certain space between the bottom of the pool and the filler. When wastewater passes through the suspended sludge layer and the filler layer in sequence, the organic matter contacts and degrades with the particles of the sludge layer and the microorganisms on the filler membrane, forming an anaerobic tower treatment process. So, let's take a look at the function and application principle of the anaerobic tower.

1. Functions of the anaerobic tower:
Wastewater biotreatment is a key technology in environmental engineering and energy engineering, and is one of the effective means to solve organic wastewater. It has been used to treat sludge, organic waste, and some high-concentration organic wastewater in municipal wastewater treatment plants. This is a biological method to solve wastewater.
2. Anaerobic tower Application principle:
(1) Industrial wastewater with consistent PH and temperature first enters the mixing zone at the lower end of the reactor, and after being fully mixed with the circulating sludge mixture in the downcomer of the tap water, it enters the granular sludge expansion zone for ammonia nitrogen biochemical interpretation. Here, the ammonia nitrogen volume load is high, and most of it enters the anaerobic tower and dissolves here, producing a large amount of biogas liquid.
(2) The biogas liquid is collected by three separation devices. The liquid expansion during the foaming process of the digested liquid produces a stripping effect, so it is correct that the mixture of digested liquid, sludge, and water rises along the digested liquid lift pipe to the top of the reactor's enterprise separation equipment, where the digested liquid is separated from the sludge and output to the solution system.
(3) The sludge mixture enters the transition zone at the lower end of the anaerobic tower along the sludge downcomer, and after being fully mixed with the influent, it enters the sludge expansion zone, where internal circulation occurs. According to different influent ammonia nitrogen loads and different reactor structures, the total internal circulation flow rate can reach 0.5-5 times the influent flow rate. In addition to part of the expanded wastewater participating in the internal circulation, the remaining wastewater will be dissolved by the remaining ammonia nitrogen, and produced by the granular sludge bed zone digested liquid, entering the refined solution zone according to the three-stage separation equipment, to improve and ensure the effluent water quality. Because most of the ammonia nitrogen has been dissolved, the purification zone ammonia nitrogen load is low, and the output is also low. The biogas liquid produced here is collected by two-stage three-phase separators, enters the gas-liquid separator through the gas collection pipe, and is output to the solution system. After the refined wastewater is effectively treated by the secondary three-phase separator, the supernatant is discharged from the watershed, and the granular sludge returns to the refined sludge bed.
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