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S. Winkler, M. Gasser, W. Schättle, D. Kremmel, N. Matsché:
"Upgrading of WWTP´s for nutrient removal under optimal use of existing structures";
Talk: 10th IWA Specialised Conference on Design, Operation and Economics of Large Waste Water Treatment Plants, Wien; 2007-09-09 - 2007-09-13; in: "Proceedings", Papers (2007), 171 - 178.

Upgrading of WWTP´s under maximum use of existing structures is often an important requirement, but also useful due to a number of aspects. Because of a change in legal effluent requirements, a number of plants in Austria, typically aged 20+ years, were required to be extended. The two stage activated sludge HYBRID® process often provides an interesting design alternative for such plant upgrades, especially in case an anaerobic sludge treatment stage already exists. It provides high nutrient removal capacity at low area demand. The latter is especially important in cases where no or very limited extension area is available making it the key factor to preserve a site for future use. Based on two full stage case studies the adaptation of the plant layout, first operation results and a synthetic cost comparison to a conventional (single stage) plant extension are given

cost-efficiency, nutrient removal, two stage activated sludge process, sludge volume index, space limitation, WWTP extension