MLVSS / MLSS ratio’s standard value obtained from different aeration tank samples of different capacity sewage treatment plant - A case study

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Author Details : Gayathri Parivallal, Ranadive Ananth Govindaraju*, Arun Nagalingam, Sumitha Devarajan

Volume : 9, Issue : 2, Year : 2022

Article Page : 144-148

https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijmr.2022.026

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Abstract

Waste water treatment system plays a vital role in controlling pollution of natural water bodies like lake, pond, river etc., by Municipal and Industrial effluents. Different industrial effluents play its own role in contaminating the water bodies which in turn creates huge impact for aquatic and terrestrial life. From past studies we understood that, all the sewage treatment systems have a secondary treatment step which are mainly driven by Bacterial oxidation or in other terms can be pronounced as Biological augmentation, Biological calcification etc., In environmental engineering term this bacterial growth will be pronounced as MLSS (Mixed Liquor Suspended Solids) and MLVSS (Mixed Liquor Volatile Suspended Solids). MLVSS will be an inclusive part of the MLSS and also can be sorted as live bacterial cells which can really does the oxidation process in the secondary treatment step of Sewage treatment plant. Hence, this study was performed to evaluate the percentage or concentration of MLVSS available in the total value of MLSS. For this study aeration tank water samples were collected from 6 different STP capacities from 6 different areas. All the samples were tested for MLSS and MLVSS concentration with the available standard method of drying. Drying with 105° C in oven gives the value of MLSS and drying with 550° C in furnace gives the value of MLVSS. With all the tested samples the concentration of MLVSS from the total MLSS was evaluated and standardized.
 

Keywords : MLSS, MLVSS, TSS, STP Aeration design, Biological oxidation, Biological calcification, Sewage treatment plant, MLVSS standard percentage.

How to cite : Parivallal G, Govindaraju R A, Nagalingam A, Devarajan S, MLVSS / MLSS ratio’s standard value obtained from different aeration tank samples of different capacity sewage treatment plant - A case study. Indian J Microbiol Res 2022;9(2):144-148

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