ACTIVATED

SLUDGE
PROCESS
CONTACT STABILIZATION

Waste Water Treatment

Group Members: Selvin Gray 1600947
Richardo Wright
Garfield Smith 1600948
OBJECTIVES

• Overview of ASP
• What is Contact Stabilization
• Advantages of Contact Stabilization
• Disadvantages of Contact Stabilization
• Design Considerations
• Applications of Contact Stabilization
ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS

• The most common suspended growth process used for

municipal wastewater treatment is the activated sludge
process.
ACTIVATED INVOLVES

• Waste water aeration in the presence of microbial

suspension
• Solid-liquid separation following aeration,
• Discharge of clarified effluent
• Wasting of excess biomass
• Return of remaining biomass to the aeration tank
 CONTACT STABILIZATION

a modification of conventional activated

This is

sludge process that uses two aeration tanks.

This facilitates the increased reduction of
BOD.
OPERATION

• Influent waster enters the

contact tank, with a SRT =
30 mins to 1 hr
• Microbes undergo bio-
sorption
• The BOD that is within the
tank is decreased
• Microbes are then settled
and sent to the stabilization
tank
OPERATION

• The organic matter that is taken up within the contact tank

is then stabilized
• Aerated conditioned are maintained for a few hours
• The microbes remains for several hours with a RAS that
ranges between 40 to 70%
ADVANTAGES OF CONTACT
STABILIZATION IN WWTP
• The process operates in a conventional loading range
• The total aeration volume is smaller for a conventional
biological reactor operation with a similar HRT.
• This process in useful in communities that have high
infiltration and inflow
• Operated at high VOL without filamentous bacteria growth
DISADVANTAGES OF CONTACT
STABILIZATION IN WWTP
• Does not remove nutrients, tertiary treatment is necessary
• Problems of getting well settled sludge
• Does not remove color from industrial waste and may
increase the color through the formation of highly colored
intermediate
• Recycle biomass keeps high biomass concentration in
aeration tanks
DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS

• The quality or characteristic of the waste water to be

treated
• The desired quality or characteristics of the effluent waste
water
• The type of reactor to be used
• Volumetric and organic loading that will be applied to the
reactor
DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS

• Amount of Oxygen required and the aeration system will

provide to support to supply oxygen and to support mixing
• The quantity of sludge that will be generated and wasted
for its future management
• Besides these nutrients requirement of microbes,
environmental conditions under which plant operated
DESIGN CRITERIA

The design computations • Number of aeration tank,N

require the determination of :
• Volume of aeration tanks (
• Air requirements depth, shape, freeboard )
20-50 m3 of air/kg of BOD • % of RAS flow
removed for aeration when
F/M = or > 0.3
70-115 m3 of air/kg of BOD
removed for aeration when
F/M <or = 0.3
APPLICATION OF CONTACT
STABILIZATION IN WWTP
The process was adapted to the CWWTP in
Columbia as a pilot test in Columbia
• The pilot was operated for 183 days with a
simulated inflow of Cali’s Domestic Supply
• Even though the effluent COD was
significantly, high incidence of sludge flotation
existed
 • In order to guarantee the
performance, average values of SRT of
6 d,VOL of 2.13 kgBOD5.(m3.d)-1

FINDINGS OF
PILOT TEST • increase of organic load in the system
allows for better use of the
biosorption capacity
• Organic load removal via
contact stabilization process
has a potential for secondary
waste water treatment

• The hydraulic retention time and the

• best performance in terms of
removal efficiencies of COD,
sludge recycle rate have a significant
BOD5, and TSS were an HRT of influence on the concentration of VSS
0.84 h
in the system.
REFERENCES

• Benefield, L., & Randall, C. (1976). Design Procedure for a Contact

Stabilization Activated Sludge Process. Journal (Water Pollution
Control Federation), 48(1), 147-152. Retrieved from
http://www.jstor.org/stable/25038474

• Nancy,Victoria, R., Jenny, & Patricia. (n.d.). PERFORMANCE OF A

CONTACT STABILIZATION PROCESS FOR DOMESTIC
WASTEWATER TREATMENT OF CALI, COLOMBIA. Retrieved from
http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0012-
73532011000400012.