Sewage treatment apparatus and method thereof

• US 20060108270A1
• Filed: 08/25/2005
• Published: 05/25/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ebara Corporation
• Original Assignee: Ebara Corporation
• Inventors: Yoshida, Hideyuki, Fuchu, Yuichi, Kosanda, Sakae, Watanabe, Shojiro, Yasuhara, Yoshiharu, Makita, Norio
• Application Number:
  US11/210,858
• Publication Number:
  US 20060108270A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 210/198.100
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/32 with ultraviolet light
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/74 with air aeration of stretches of water C02F7/00
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/76 with halogens or compounds of halogens C02F1/4674 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/766 by means of halogens other than chlorine or of halogenated compounds containing halogen other than chlorine
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2001/007 Processes including a sedimentation step
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2103/001 Runoff or storm water
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2209/005 Processes using a programmable logic controller [PLC]
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 2301/043 Treatment of partial or bypass streams

Abstract

The present invention provides a sewer system having a means to quickly disinfect rainwater-incorporated sewage and pollutant-incorporated rainwater, that is, combined sewer overflow (CSO), separated sewer rainwater overflow and separated sanitary sewer overflow before being discharged to public water body without passing through a sewage treatment plant, and a method and an apparatus for disinfecting rainwater-incorporated sewage and pollutant-incorporated rainwater. One embodiment of the present invention is a sewer system wherein when sewage flows into a sewage treatment plant in an amount of not more than the treatment capacity of the sewage treatment plant, the sewage is subjected to predetermined treatments in the sewage treatment plant, and then disinfection with a chlorine-based disinfectant, and thereafter discharged to public water body, and when sewage containing rainwater in an amount of more than the treatment capacity of the sewage treatment plant flows or may flow into the sewage treatment plant by a big rainfall, the amount of the rainwater-incorporated sewage of more than the treatment capacity is branched in sewer stormwater overflow removing facilities of a sewer, then disinfected with a bromine-based disinfectant, and thereafter discharged to public water body while the rainwater-incorporated sewage in an amount within the treatment capacity of the sewage treatment plant is subjected to predetermined treatments in the sewage treatment plant, then disinfected with a chlorine-based disinfectant, and thereafter discharged to public water body.

Claims

1. A sewage treatment apparatus, comprising:

a disinfection facility which has a disinfection tank for disinfecting sewage by means of chlorine or ultraviolet;

a bromine sewage treatment device which disinfects sewage by means of a bromine-based disinfectant; and

a branching device which has an inlet port, outlet port 1, and outlet port 2, and branches sewage flowing into the inlet port into the outlet port 1 and outlet port 2, the branching device allowing the entire amount of the inflow sewage to flow into the outlet port 1 when the amount of the inflow sewage to the inlet port is equal to or lower than a predetermined value, allowing an amount of sewage of the predetermined value to flow into the outlet port 1 when the amount of inflow sewage is higher than the predetermined value, and allowing an amount of sewage, which is obtained by removing the amount of sewage of the predetermined value from the amount of the inflow sewage, to flow into the outlet port 2,

wherein the outlet port 1 of the branching device is connected to a sewage introduction portion of the disinfection facility, and the outlet port 2 of the branching device is connected to a sewage introduction portion of the bromine sewage treatment device.

2. The sewage treatment apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the disinfection facility reduces the number of coliform organisms in the sewage to 3000 CFU or less per 1 mL of the sewage.

3. The sewage treatment apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the disinfection facility reduces the number of Escherichia coli in the sewage to 200 CFU or less per 100 mL of the sewage.

4. The sewage treatment apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the inlet port of the branching device is connected to a combined sewer.

5. The sewage treatment apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the bromine sewage treatment device reduces the number of coliform organisms in the sewage to 3000 CFU or less per 1 mL of the sewage.

6. The sewage treatment apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the bromine sewage treatment device reduces the number of Escherichia coli in the sewage to 200 CFU or less per 100 mL of the sewage.

7. The sewage treatment apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the sewage disinfected by the disinfection facility and/or bromine sewage treatment device is discharged into a public water body.

8. The sewage treatment apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the disinfection facility further comprises a primary sedimentation tank, whose sewage introduction portion is connected to the introduction portion of the disinfection facility, and whose outlet port is connected to a sewage introduction portion of the disinfection tank.

9. The sewage treatment apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the disinfection facility further comprises a primary sedimentation tank, an aeration tank, and a final sedimentation tank, and wherein the sewage introduction portion of the primary sedimentation tank is connected to the introduction portion of the disinfection facility, the outlet port of the primary sedimentation tank is connected to a sewage introduction portion of the aeration tank, an outlet port of the aeration portion is connected to a sewage introduction portion of the final sedimentation tank, and an outlet port of the final sedimentation tank is connected to the sewage introduction portion of the disinfection tank.

10. The sewage treatment apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the disinfection facility further comprises:

a primary sedimentation tank;

a branching device which has an inlet port, outlet port 1, and outlet port 2, and receives water flowing out of the primary sedimentation tank, at the inlet port, to branch the water into the outlet port 1 and outlet port 2, the branching device allowing the entire amount of inflow water to flow into the outlet port 1 when the inflow water into the branching device is equal to or less than a predetermined value, allowing an amount of water with the predetermined value to flow into the outlet port 1 when the amount of the inflow water is higher than the predetermined value, and allowing an amount of water with the predetermined value, which is obtained by removing the amount of water with the predetermined value from the amount of the inflow water, to flow into the outlet port 2; and

a bromine sewage treatment device which disinfects sewage by means of a bromine-based disinfectant,

wherein a sewage introduction portion of the primary sedimentation tank is connected to the introduction portion of the disinfection facility, an outlet port of the primary sedimentation tank is connected to the inlet port of the branching device, the outlet port 1 of the branching device is connected to a sewage introduction portion of the disinfection tank, and the outlet port 2 of the branching device is connected to a sewage introduction portion of the bromine sewage treatment device.

11. The sewage treatment apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the disinfection facility further comprises:

a primary sedimentation tank;

an aeration tank;

a final sedimentation tank;

a branching device which has an inlet port, outlet port 1, and outlet port 2, and receives water flowing out of the primary sedimentation tank, at the inlet port, to branch the water into the outlet port 1 and outlet port 2, the branching device allowing the entire amount of inflow water to flow into the outlet port 1 when the inflow water is equal to or less than a predetermined value, allowing an amount of water with the predetermined value to flow into the outlet port 1 when the amount of the inflow water is higher than the predetermined value, and allowing an amount of water, which is obtained by removing the amount of water with the predetermined value from the amount of the inflow water, to flow into the outlet port 2; and

a bromine sewage treatment device which disinfects sewage by means of a bromine-based disinfectant,

wherein a sewage introduction portion of the primary sedimentation tank is connected to the introduction portion of the disinfection facility, an outlet port of the primary sedimentation tank is connected to the inlet port of the branching device, the outlet port 1 of the branching device is connected to a sewage introduction portion of the aeration tank, an outlet port of the aeration tank is connected to a sewage introduction portion of the final sedimentation tank, an outlet port of the final sedimentation tank is connected to a sewage introduction portion of the disinfection tank, and the outlet port 2 of the branching device is connected to a sewage introduction portion of the bromine sewage treatment device.

14. The sewage treatment apparatus according to any one of claims 1, 12 or 13, wherein the bromine sewage treatment device is equipped with a solid bromine-based disinfectant storing/feeding device, and a disinfectant adding/mixing device for adding and mixing the solid bromine-based disinfectant supplied from the solid bromine-based disinfectant storing/feeding device with water to be treated.

15. The sewage treatment apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the solid bromine-based disinfectant storing/feeding device comprises a solid bromine-based disinfectant storage tank and a metering feeder for metering a predetermined amount of the solid bromine-based disinfectant in the storage tank to discharge the metered solid bromine-based disinfectant, the storage tank and the metering feeder comprising solid bromine-based disinfectant agitating means which is constituted by a plurality of injection holes for injecting compressed air into the storage tank and metering feeder.

16. The sewage treatment apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the metering feeder comprises a rotary table having metering means.

17. The sewage treatment apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the disinfectant adding/mixing device comprises a disinfecting water preparation device which receives part of water to be treated and mixes and dissolves the solid bromine-based disinfectant therewith and means to introduce the disinfecting water into the water to be treated.

18. The sewage treatment apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the disinfectant adding/mixing device is installed in a channel in which the water to be treated flows.

19. The sewage treatment apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the solid bromine-based disinfectant storing/feeding device and the solid bromine-based disinfectant adding/mixing device are constituted by a storage tank for storing the solid bromine-based disinfectant, a disinfectant transfer piping which is connected to the storage tank and transfers the disinfectant in a solid form to a point of introduction, and a disinfectant introducing device which is connected to the disinfectant transfer piping and adds the solid bromine-based disinfectant transferred through the piping to the water to be treated.

20. The sewage treatment apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the disinfectant is completely dissolved in the water to be treated before the disinfectant flows from a site of addition to arrive at a site of discharging the treated water.

21. The sewage treatment apparatus according to claim 14, further comprising disinfectant addition amount controlling means having a collection line for collecting a sample of water to be treated, disinfectant feeding means for adding a disinfectant to the sampled water to be treated, and an active halogen concentration measuring device for measuring the active halogen concentration of the disinfectant added sampled water to be treated, the disinfectant addition amount controlling means controlling the amount of the disinfectant which is added to the water to be treated by the disinfectant adding/mixing device in accordance with the level of decrease in the active halogen concentration in the sampled water to be treated after addition of the disinfectant measured by the active halogen concentration measuring device.

22. The sewage treatment apparatus according to claim 14, further comprising a reducing agent feeding device for adding a reducing agent to the water to be treated after addition of the disinfectant, an active halogen concentration measuring device for measuring the active halogen concentration in the water to be treated after addition of the disinfectant, and a reducing agent addition amount control device for controlling the amount of addition of the reducing agent in accordance with the active halogen concentration in the measured water to be treated after addition of the disinfectant.

12. A sewage treatment apparatus in a sewage treatment plant, the sewage treatment apparatus comprising:

a primary sedimentation tank;

disinfection equipment which has a disinfection tank for disinfecting sewage by means of chlorine or ultraviolet;

a bromine sewage treatment device which disinfects sewage by means of a bromine-based disinfectant; and

a branching device which has an inlet port, outlet port 1, and outlet port 2, and receives water flowing out of the primary sedimentation tank, at the inlet port, to branch the water into the outlet port 1 and outlet port 2, the branching device allowing the entire amount of inflow water to flow into the outlet port 1 when the inflow water into the branching device is equal to or less than a predetermined value, allowing an amount of water with the predetermined value to flow into the outlet port 1 when the amount of the inflow water is higher than the predetermined value, and allowing an amount of water, which is obtained by removing the amount of water with the predetermined value from the amount of the inflow water, to flow into the outlet port 2,

wherein the outlet port 1 of the branching device is connected to a sewage introduction portion of the disinfection facility, and the outlet port 2 of the branching device is connected to a sewage introduction portion of the bromine sewage treatment device.

13. A sewage treatment apparatus in a sewage treatment plant, the sewage treatment apparatus comprising:

a primary sedimentation tank;

an aeration tank;

a final sedimentation tank;

disinfection equipment which has a disinfection tank for disinfecting sewage by means of chlorine or ultraviolet;

a bromine sewage treatment device which disinfects sewage by means of a bromine-based disinfectant; and

a branching device which has an inlet port, outlet port 1, and outlet port 2, and receives water flowing out of the primary sedimentation tank, at the inlet port, to branch the water into the outlet port 1 and outlet port 2, the branching device allowing the entire amount of inflow water to flow into the outlet port 1 when the inflow water is equal to or less than a predetermined value, allowing an amount of water with the predetermined value to flow into the outlet port 1 when the amount of the inflow water is higher than the predetermined value, and allowing an amount of water, which is obtained by removing the amount of water with the predetermined value from the amount of the inflow water, to flow into the outlet port 2,

wherein a sewage introduction portion of the primary sedimentation tank is connected to the introduction portion of the sewage treatment apparatus, an outlet port of the primary sedimentation tank is connected to the inlet port of the branching device, the outlet port 1 of the branching device is connected to a sewage introduction portion of the aeration tank, an outlet port of the aeration tank is connected to a sewage introduction portion of the final sedimentation tank, an outlet port of the final sedimentation tank is connected to a sewage introduction portion of the disinfection equipment, and the outlet port 2 of the branching device is connected to a sewage introduction portion of the bromine sewage treatment device.

23. A method for performing disinfection treatment on sewage, comprising the steps of disinfecting the entire amount of inflow sewage by means of chlorine or ultraviolet when an amount of the inflow sewage is equal to or lower than a predetermined value, disinfecting an amount of sewage of the predetermined value by means of the chlorine or ultraviolet when the amount of the inflow sewage is higher than the predetermined value, and at the same time disinfecting an amount of sewage, which is obtained by removing the amount of sewage of the predetermined value from the amount of the inflow sewage, by means of a bromine-based disinfectant.

24. The method according to claim 23, wherein the number of coliform organisms in the sewage is reduced to 3000 CFU or less per 1 mL of the sewage by disinfection using chlorine or ultraviolet.

25. The method according to claim 23, wherein the number of Escherichia coli in the sewage is reduced to 200 CFU or less per 100 mL of the sewage by disinfection using chlorine or ultraviolet.

26. The method according to claim 23, wherein target sewage to be treated is sewage in a combined sewer.

27. The method according to claim 23, wherein the number of coliform organisms in the sewage is reduced to 3000 CFU or less per 1 mL of the sewage by disinfection using the bromine-based disinfectant.

28. The method according to claim 23, wherein the number of Escherichia coli in the sewage is reduced to 200 CFU or less per 100 mL of the sewage by disinfection using the bromine-based disinfectant.

29. The method according to claim 23, wherein the sewage disinfected by means of chlorine or ultraviolet, and/or the sewage disinfected by means of the bromine-based disinfectant is discharged in to a public water body.

30. The method according to claim 23, wherein the time taken for the disinfection treatment by means of the bromine-based disinfectant is three minutes or less.

31. The method according to claim 23, wherein the disinfection is performed by adding and mixing a solid bromine-based disinfectant as the bromine-based disinfectant into water to be treated.

32. The method according to claim 23, wherein the disinfection is performed by mixing and dissolving the solid bromine-based disinfectant as the bromine-based disinfectant into part of the water to be treated to prepare disinfecting water, and introducing the prepared disinfecting water into the water to be treated.

33. The method according to claim 23, wherein the disinfectant is completely dissolved in the water to be treated before the disinfectant flows from a site of addition to arrive at a site of discharging the treated water.

34. The method according to claim 23, further comprising the steps of taking a sample of part of water to be treated, adding the bromine-based disinfectant thereto, measuring the active halogen concentration in the sampled water to be treated to which the bromine-based disinfectant is added, and controlling the amount of the bromine-based disinfectant which is added to the water to be treated in accordance with the level of decrease in the measured active halogen concentration in the sampled water to be treated after addition of the measured bromine-based disinfectant.

35. The method according to claim 23, wherein the active halogen concentration in the water to be treated after the bromine-based disinfectant is added thereto is measured, and a reducing agent is added into the water to be treated after the bromine-based disinfectant is added thereto, in accordance with the measured active halogen concentration in the water to be treated after addition of the disinfectant.