Technical Investigation on the Application of Ultrafiltration Membrane Process in the Upgrading and Reconstruction Project of Urban Sewage Plant

Abstract

In recent years, for environmental quality requirements of our country continue to increase, the effluent quality of urban sewage treatment plants has improved correspondingly. A sewage treatment plants in Zhonglou District, Changzhou City originally used the traditional AAO treatment process, complying with the first level B standard of “Discharge standard of pollutants for municipal wastewater treatment plant”(GB18918-2002). However, according to the newest requirements of discharge standard, this sewage plant needs to be upgraded, improving to the first level a standard. The main measures include transforming the former treatment process into a two-stage A/O process (A-O-A-O), which focuses on nitrogen removal to strengthen the nitrogen removal capacity; adding a ultrafiltration membrane system to increase the removal rate of effluent SS and the refractory organic matter. After the completion of the upgrading project, the sewage treatment plant has been operating stably for 12 months. The effluent quality is stable and up to standards, meeting the design standards. This example of transformation can provide a technical reference for the transforming and upgrading projects of other sewage treatment plants, which share the same type of tight land use.