Abstract: A method of treating wastewater from a renewable fuel production comprises anaerobically digesting the wastewater to produce digestate and sludge, aerobically treating the digestate to produce an effluent and a second sludge, separating the effluent into a first filtrate and a first reject, treating the sludge, second sludge, and first reject in a solids-liquid separation apparatus to produce recovered water, directing the recovered water into the mixing tank, filtering the first filtrate in a nanofiltration unit to produce a second filtrate and a second reject, filtering the second filtrate in a first reverse osmosis unit to produce a third filtrate and a third reject, filtering the third reject in a second reverse osmosis unit to produce a fourth filtrate and a fourth reject, combining the third filtrate and fourth filtrate to form a product water, and combining the second reject and the fourth reject into a combined reject for disposal.

Abstract: A method of treating wastewater comprises performing biological treatment of the wastewater to generate a sludge, adding a ballasting agent to the sludge to form a ballasted sludge, and performing solid-liquid separation of a first portion of the ballasted sludge using a dissolved air flotation process to form a solids-rich concentrated sludge and a solids-lean effluent.

Abstract: A water treatment system (50) utilizing granular activated carbon (GAC) for the removal of organic contaminants in a process water circuit (52), and including a carbon regeneration circuit (54) in fluid communication with the process water circuit. The carbon regeneration circuit may include a dedicated regeneration vessel (16), or the regeneration process may proceed within a GAC/water contactor (58) of the process water circuit. A process is described wherein spent GAC from the water treatment system is regenerated within the system with an oxidation process that minimizes damage to the carbon granules.

Abstract: A water treatment system (50) utilizing granular activated carbon (GAC) for the removal of organic contaminants in a process water circuit (52), and including a carbon regeneration circuit (54) in fluid communication with the process water circuit. The carbon regeneration circuit may include a dedicated regeneration vessel (16), or the regeneration process may proceed within a GAC/water contactor (58) of the process water circuit. A process is described wherein spent GAC from the water treatment system is regenerated within the system with an oxidation process that minimizes damage to the carbon granules.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method and apparatus for treating wastewater. The wastewater treatment system includes a bioreactor including activated carbon and a first biological population. The wastewater treatment system may also include a membrane bioreactor and/or a wet oxidation unit.