Abstract: A sewage and wastewater treatment apparatus with a backwash sludge treatment system for recovering carbon sources from high-rate filtration backwash sludge is disclosed. The apparatus includes a pretreatment unit for removing grit materials and screenings, a first reactor for settling, thickening, and fermenting the pretreated backwash sludge, a second reactor for receiving and settling sludge from the first reactor and/or pretreatment unit while separating it into settled sludge and supernatant, and a control unit for managing the operation of each component.

Abstract: A water and wastewater treatment process optimization and automatic design system and a design method using the same of the present invention can optimize water and wastewater treatment processes for design of a water and wastewater treatment device that includes a plurality of treatment processes and can automatically generate design deliverables such as drawings, bills of quantities, etc., for design of an optimal process configuration.

Abstract: Disclosed are a wastewater filtering method and apparatus comprising filter media of different sizes. According to one aspect of the present embodiment, provided a wastewater filtering method and apparatus capable of stable and efficient operation by minimizing the head loss as well as simultaneously removing organic matter and solids in a large flow of wastewater.

Abstract: Disclosed are a wastewater filtering method and apparatus comprising filter media of different sizes. According to one aspect of the present embodiment, provided a wastewater filtering method and apparatus capable of stable and efficient operation by minimizing the head loss as well as simultaneously removing organic matter and solids in a large flow of wastewater.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system for reducing an amount of organic waste and increasing biogas production, combined with a hydrothermal carbonization device having improved energy consumption efficiency. According to an aspect of the present invention, provided is a system for reducing an amount of organic waste and increasing biogas production, the system comprising: a storage tank configured to receive and store organic waste; an anaerobic digester configured to digest organic waste from the storage tank, digest organic matter, and produce biogas; a dewatering unit configured to primarily dewater organic waste discharged from the anaerobic digester; a hydrothermal carbonization device configured to receive and hydrothermally carbonize the dewaterd organic waste; and a filter press configured to secondarily dewater the hydrothermally carbonized product discharged from the hydrothermal carbonization device.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for accelerating sludge granulation. The apparatus for accelerating sludge granulation, which serves to accelerate a process of granulating activated sludge to produce granules, includes a cultivation tank configured to receive activated sludge and a carbon source to culture them in a preset environment for a preset time, an acceleration reactor configured to receive the activated sludge cultured in the cultivation tank and sewage from the outside to grow and granulate the activated sludge, and a control unit configured to control operations of the cultivation tank and the acceleration reactor.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for removing nitrogen and phosphorus from sewage and wastewater through a combination of a biological nitrogen and phosphorus removal process using nitrite nitrogen and an anaerobic ammonium oxidation process. An objective of an embodiment of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for removing nitrogen and phosphorus in which, by inducing a denitritation- and nitritation-based biological nitrogen and phosphorus removal process in a bioreactor and applying an anaerobic ammonium oxidation process, nitrogen and phosphorus can be economically and effectively removed without separately injecting organic materials.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for removing nitrogen and phosphorus from sewage and wastewater through the improvement of a process configuration and a method for determining internal flows in an existing biological nitrogen and phosphorus removal process in combination with a deammonification process. According to an embodiment of the present invention, provided is a nitrogen and phosphorus removal apparatus in which, to form conditions in an anaerobic ammonium oxidation tank to perform a deammonification reaction, the influent flow rate into the nitrogen and phosphorus removal apparatus, the flow rate of water returned between reaction tanks, and the amount of returned sludge are controlled.

Abstract: Disclosed are an organic waste treatment apparatus and method with improved energy consumption efficiency and increased heating rates. An aspect of the present embodiment provides an organic waste treatment method and apparatus with improved energy consumption efficiency and increased heating rates. The apparatus includes a preheating tank configured to receive and preheat organic waste to be treated; a plurality of thermal hydrolysis reactors; a steam-water separator; a decompression tank; a post-treatment unit; and a control unit.

Abstract: Disclosed is a carrier, of which biofilms are appropriately adjustable in thickness. In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a complex carrier included in one component of a sewage treatment apparatus to allow microorganisms to be attached and grown therein. The complex carrier includes a first carrier having a plural spaces for microorganisms to be attached therein to allow microorganisms to be attached and grown therein; and a second carrier having a structure capable of penetrating or passing through the spaces of the first carrier to adjust the thickness of biofilms formed in the spaces of the first carrier.

Abstract: Disclosed are partial nitritation using a sequencing batch reaction tank with media inputted thereinto, and an apparatus and system for shortcut nitrogen removal using the same. According to one aspect of the present embodiment, a sequencing batch reaction tank operating apparatus and method capable of smoothly performing partial nitritation by adjusting the concentrations of free ammonia and free nitrous acid are provided.

Abstract: Disclosed are a heat exchanger capable of cooling a coolant and a sewage treatment plant comprising same. An aspect of the present embodiment provides a sewage treatment plant which cools a coolant for dissipating heat of each component inside a data center, the sewage treatment plant comprising at least one removal means, for receiving sewage and removing organic material and pollutants in the sewage, and a cooling pipe, through which a coolant which has dissipated the heat of each component inside the data center flows, disposed inside the removal means so as to induce heat exchange between the treated water, from which organic material and pollutants of the sewage have been removed, and the coolant flowing through the cooling pipe, thereby lowering the temperature of the latter.

Abstract: Disclosed is a heat exchange system between an external plan such as a data center and a water treatment device of a sewage treatment plant. The present system includes a hot-air supply unit that supplies heat generated from the external plant to a reactor using microorganisms in the water treatment device, and a coolant supply unit that supplies treated water discharged from the water treatment device to the external plant as a coolant for heat dissipation of the external plant. It is possible to simultaneously solve various problems in terms of environmental and economic aspects by enabling complementary heat exchange between the external plant and the sewage treatment plant.

Abstract: Disclosed is a sedimentation tank system including high-rate filtration part and being capable of primary treatment of sewage and wastewater, flow rate adjustment, and treatment of wetweather flow. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a sedimentation tank system for removing solids in an influent sewage and wastewater, the sedimentation tank including a filtration part which includes a filter medium and removes solids in the influent sewage and wastewater, a sedimentation tank with a water gate formed at a predetermined height to store sewage and wastewater flowing over the water gate, and an outflow distribution channel that receives, from the filtration part, sewage and wastewater from which solids have been removed, and discharges the same to the outside of the primary sedimentation tank.

Abstract: Disclosed are partial nitritation using a sequencing batch reaction tank with media inputted thereinto, and an apparatus and system for shortcut nitrogen removal using the same. According to one aspect of the present embodiment, a sequencing batch reaction tank operating apparatus and method capable of smoothly performing partial nitritation by adjusting the concentrations of free ammonia and free nitrous acid are provided.

Abstract: A gas/liquid dissolution device includes: a dissolution case of a cylindrical shape; an introduction port outside a side surface of the dissolution case, where a dissolution water is introduced into the dissolution case and a different kind of gas is mixed through the introducing port; a gas/liquid separation inducer in the dissolution case, the gas/liquid separation inducer inducing the dissolution water and an insoluble gas introduced into the dissolution case to be separated to a gas and a liquid by a centrifugal force; and a discharge port outside an end portion of the dissolution case. The dissolution water and the insoluble gas are discharged from the dissolution case through the discharge port.

Abstract: A waste water treatment includes a biological filtration tank, a nitritation tank, and an anammox tank. The biological filtration tank performs biological filtration as a pretreatment process with regard to influent waste water and removes solids and organic matters. The nitritation tank performs a nitritation process with regard to waste water flowing from the biological filtration tank and supplies an electron acceptor needed for removing the organic matter in the biological filtration tank by returning some of the waste water back to the biological filtration tank. The anammox tank performs an anaerobic ammonium oxidizing process with regard to the waste water received from the biological filtration tank and the nitritation tank.

Abstract: A gas/liquid dissolution device includes: a dissolution case; an introduction port outside a side surface of the dissolution case; a gas/liquid separation inducing means in the dissolution case, the gas/liquid separation inducing means inducing the dissolution water and an insoluble gas introduced into the dissolution case; and a discharge port outside an end portion of the dissolution case. The introduction port includes: an introduction tube connected to the dissolution case; an insertion tube inserted into the introduction tube; and an intake tube connected to the insertion tube. The discharge port has a structure where a discharge flow path communicating with an interior of the dissolution case is formed therein.

Abstract: Provided is a filtering apparatus having a fixed-type chaos-flow inducer that saves energy as well as sufficiently washes a separation membrane in an environment of high concentration by efficiently generating chaos flow by using a structure of a fixed type.