The treatment of municipal wastewaters through "Up-flow Anaerobic with Sludge Blanket"-UASB reactors-, are already used for many years in some states of Brazil. It's output in the treatment is in the range of 65% to 75% of organic load remove in BOD, needing so an after-treatment, for example the AEROBIC, like Percolator Biologic Filters, aerated submerse Biological Filters, Activated Sludge etc. Due to the evolution of legislation and treatment systems in the tertiary level, that means, nutrients remove, these after-treatments are even more necessary to the removal of ammonia nitrogen for example, with complete removal using nitrification and denitrification or simply achieving the nitrification stage, because the ammonia is toxic to a great part of aquatic life, mostly fishes, while the nitrogen in the form of ions nitrate or nitrite is considered less toxic. There are already in the literature some descriptions of how to dimension those units of after-treatment, however, the parameters used are theoretical and based on the pre-existent to sanitary wastewater typically domestic, not having yet a source of experimental data for those parameters. The objective of this paper is to get real data to project the aftertreatment of effluents of UASB reactors, using the equation and the methods presented by Ekama, Dold e Marais (1986), based in a pilot system of Activated Sludge, in laboratory level, fed with effluent of an UASB reactor installed on the campus of USP, more precisely in the Hydraulic Technological Center (CTH). This reactor treats the wastewater generated in the communitary restaurant and apartments where the University students live (CRUSP). Like all the aerobic biologic systems of treatment base themselves in the same fractions, the collected data here are really useful to any other aerobic after-treatment of these effluents. The fractions obtained were: f up = 0,15, f rb ~0 and f us = 0,2.
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