Award Date

1-1-2002

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Engineering (ME)

Department

Civil and Environmental Engineering

First Committee Member

Jacimaria Ramos Batista

Number of Pages

231

Abstract

Denitrification in biological reactors has been widely studied, whereas, little is known about denitrification occurring in secondary clarifiers. In this study an attempt was made to study denitrification occurring within a secondary clarifier at the Clark County Sanitation District (CCSD) wastewater treatment plant, Las Vegas. The results obtained from this study showed that denitrification and phosphorus (P) release were occurring within the CCSD clarifiers. Dissolved oxygen (DO) and soluble COD concentrations were found to be the most influencing parameters on denitrification and P-release within the clarifiers. The results also showed that sludge blanket height (SBH), solid flux, and state point analysis can be used as operating tools to control denitrification within the clarifiers.

Keywords

Biological; CCSD; Clarifiers; Denitrification; Influence; Nevada; Phosphorus; Plant; Removal

Controlled Subject

Environmental engineering; Civil engineering

File Format

pdf

File Size

5273.6 KB

Degree Grantor

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Language

English

Permissions

If you are the rightful copyright holder of this dissertation or thesis and wish to have the full text removed from Digital Scholarship@UNLV, please submit a request to digitalscholarship@unlv.edu and include clear identification of the work, preferably with URL.

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Download


COinS