Conventional wastewater treatment#

This module contains unit operations for wastewater treatment of a cellulosic ethanol biorefinery as in [1].

Data#

non_digestables = ['WWTsludge', 'Cellulose', 'Xylan', 'CellulaseNutrients', 'Mannan', 'Lignin', 'Galactan', 'Glucan', 'Acetate', 'Biomass', 'Arabinan', 'Tar', 'CO', 'CO2', 'CH4']#

list[str] IDs for non-digestible components in wastewater

Unit operations#

class AnaerobicDigestion(ID='', ins=None, outs=(), thermo=None, **kwargs)[source]#

Create an anaerobic digestion unit operation. The model is based on stoichiometric reactions and a specified fraction of water evaporated.

Parameters:
  • reactions (ReactionSet, optional) – Anaerobic digestion reactions. Default assumes 91% of organic components is destroyed, of which 86% is converted to biogas and 5% is converted to sludge. The biogas is assumed to be 51% CH4 and 49% CO2 on a dry molar basis.

  • sludge_split (Array, optional) – Split between wastewater and sludge.

  • ins (Stream], optional) –

    • [0] Wastewater

  • outs (Stream], optional) –

    • [0] Biogas

    • [1] Wastewater

    • [2] Sludge

class AerobicDigestion(ID='', ins=None, outs=(), thermo=None, **kwargs)[source]#

Create an aerobic digestion unit operation. Model is based on stoichiometric reactions and a specified fraction of water evaporated.

Parameters:
  • ins (Stream], optional) –

    • [0] Wastewater

    • [1] Air

    • [2] Caustic

  • outs (Stream], optional) –

    • [0] Vent

    • [1] Treated wastewater

  • reactions (ReactionSet, optional) – Aerobic digestion reactions. Defaults assume 96% of remaining soluble organic matter is removed after aerobic digestion, of which 74% is converted to water and CO2 and 22% to cell mass.

  • evaporation (float, optional) – Fraction of water evaporated. Defaults to 0.0113.

class ReverseOsmosis(ID='', ins=None, outs=(), thermo=None, **kwargs)[source]#

Create a reverse osmosis unit operation for recovering water from brine. The model is based on a fraction of water recovered.

Parameters:
  • ins (Stream], optional) – Inlet fluid to be split.

  • outs (Stream], optional) –

    • [0] Filtered water

    • [1] Brine

  • water_recovery (float, optional) – Water recovered to 0th stream. Defaults to 0.987

class WastewaterSystemCost(ID='', ins=None, outs=(), thermo=None, **kwargs)[source]#

Create a unit that estimates the capital cost and electricity demand of a wastewater treatment system.

Parameters:

ins (Stream], optional) – Wastewater.

Utilities#

get_digestable_organic_chemicals(chemicals)[source]#

Return a list of digestible organic chemical IDs.

Parameters:

chemicals (Chemicals) – Digestible organic chemicals will be retrieve from this parameter.

System factories#

create_conventional_wastewater_treatment_system(ID=None, ins=None, outs=None, mockup=False, area=None, udct=None, autorename=None, operating_hours=None, lang_factor=None, algorithm=None, method=None, maxiter=None, molar_tolerance=None, relative_molar_tolerance=None, temperature_tolerance=None, relative_temperature_tolerance=None, box=False, network_priority=None, *, NaOH_price=None, autopopulate=None)#

Return a system for wastewater treatment as described in Humbird et al. [1] The system includes anaerobic and aerobic digestion reactors, a membrane bioreactor, a sludge centrifuge, and a reverse osmosis unit.

Parameters:
  • ins (Stream], optional) – Wastewater streams (without solids). Defaults to all product streams at run time that are not sold and cannot generate energy through combustion (i.e. streams that have no sink, no price, and a LHV less that 1 kJ / g).

  • outs (Stream], optional) –

    • [0] biogas

    • [1] sludge

    • [2] RO_treated_water

    • [3] brine

  • NaOH_price (float, optional) – Price of NaOH in USD/kg. The default is 0.07476.

  • autopopulate (bool, optional) – Whether to automatically add wastewater streams.

Examples

>>> from biosteam import Stream, create_conventional_wastewater_treatment_system, settings
>>> settings.set_thermo(create_conventional_wastewater_treatment_system.fthermo())
>>> feed = Stream(
...     ID='wastewater',
...     Water=2.634e+04,
...     Ethanol=0.07225,
...     AceticAcid=24.67,
...     Furfural=6.206,
...     Glycerol=1.784,
...     LacticAcid=17.7,
...     SuccinicAcid=3.472,
...     DAP=1.001,
...     AmmoniumSulfate=17.63,
...     HMF=2.366,
...     Glucose=2.816,
...     Xylose=6.953,
...     Arabinose=12.78,
...     Extract=65.98,
...     Ash=83.52,
...     Lignin=1.659,
...     SolubleLignin=4.202,
...     GlucoseOligomer=6.796,
...     GalactoseOligomer=0.01718,
...     MannoseOligomer=0.009008,
...     XyloseOligomer=2.878,
...     ArabinoseOligomer=0.3508,
...     Z_mobilis=0.6668,
...     Protein=2.569,
...     Glucan=0.1555,
...     Xylan=0.06121,
...     Xylitol=4.88,
...     Cellobiose=0.9419,
...     Arabinan=0.02242,
...     Mannan=0.06448,
...     Galactan=0.01504,
...     Cellulase=25.4,
...     units='kmol/hr'
... )
>>> wwt_sys = create_conventional_wastewater_treatment_system(ins=feed)
>>> wwt_sys.simulate()
>>> wwt_sys.show('cwt100')
System: wastewater_treatment_sys
Highest convergence error among components in recycle
stream M604-0 after 16 loops:
- flow rate   1.13e+03 kmol/hr (0.84%)
- temperature 6.49e-05 K (2.1e-05%)
ins...
[0] wastewater
    phase: 'l', T: 298.15 K, P: 101325 Pa
    composition (%): Water              94.6
                     Ethanol            0.000664
                     AceticAcid         0.295
                     Furfural           0.119
                     Glycerol           0.0328
                     LacticAcid         0.318
                     SuccinicAcid       0.0818
                     DAP                0.0264
                     AmmoniumSulfate    0.465
                     HMF                0.0595
                     Glucose            0.101
                     Xylose             0.208
                     Arabinose          0.383
                     Extract            2.37
                     Ash                0.0167
                     Lignin             0.0503
                     SolubleLignin      0.128
                     GlucoseOligomer    0.244
                     GalactoseOligomer  0.000617
                     MannoseOligomer    0.000324
                     XyloseOligomer     0.0862
                     ArabinoseOligomer  0.0105
                     Z_mobilis          0.00328
                     Protein            0.0117
                     Glucan             0.00503
                     Xylan              0.00161
                     Xylitol            0.148
                     Cellobiose         0.0643
                     Arabinan           0.000591
                     Mannan             0.00209
                     Galactan           0.000486
                     Cellulase          0.122
                     -----------------  5.01e+05 kg/hr
outs...
[0] biogas
    phase: 'g', T: 307.76 K, P: 101325 Pa
    composition (%): Water         3.18
                     Ethanol       2.46e-05
                     AceticAcid    0.0019
                     Furfural      0.00296
                     Glycerol      1.43e-08
                     LacticAcid    8.25e-07
                     SuccinicAcid  2.88e-09
                     CH4           26.6
                     CO2           70.2
                     ------------  2.13e+04 kg/hr
[1] sludge
    phase: 'l', T: 307.88 K, P: 101325 Pa
    composition (%): Water              46
                     Ethanol            5.26e-05
                     AceticAcid         0.0267
                     Glycerol           0.0048
                     LacticAcid         0.0262
                     SuccinicAcid       0.012
                     DAP                0.0976
                     AmmoniumSulfate    1.72
                     SO2                0.000601
                     Arabinose          0.0338
                     Extract            0.195
                     Ash                2.56
                     NaOH               1.58
                     Lignin             7.54
                     SolubleLignin      0.0105
                     GlucoseOligomer    0.0312
                     GalactoseOligomer  7.88e-05
                     MannoseOligomer    4.13e-05
                     XyloseOligomer     0.011
                     ArabinoseOligomer  0.00134
                     Z_mobilis          0.0406
                     Protein            0.143
                     Glucan             0.0229
                     Xylan              0.0226
                     Xylitol            0.0217
                     Cellobiose         0.00568
                     Arabinan           0.0103
                     Mannan             0.0363
                     Galactan           0.00847
                     WWTsludge          39.8
                     Cellulase          0.01
                     -----------------  2.57e+03 kg/hr
[2] RO_treated_water
    phase: 'l', T: 307.79 K, P: 101325 Pa
    composition (%): Water  100
                     -----  4.16e+05 kg/hr
[3] brine
    phase: 'l', T: 307.79 K, P: 101325 Pa
    composition (%): Water              48.7
                     Ethanol            1.35e-05
                     AceticAcid         0.00609
                     Furfural           0.00244
                     Glycerol           0.000675
                     LacticAcid         0.00763
                     SuccinicAcid       0.00169
                     DAP                1.11
                     AmmoniumSulfate    19.6
                     HMF                0.00124
                     SO2                0.01
                     Glucose            0.00244
                     Xylose             0.00861
                     Arabinose          0.00791
                     Extract            0.0568
                     Ash                0.267
                     NaOH               23.5
                     Lignin             0.519
                     SolubleLignin      0.00306
                     GlucoseOligomer    0.00576
                     GalactoseOligomer  1.46e-05
                     MannoseOligomer    7.63e-06
                     XyloseOligomer     0.00203
                     ArabinoseOligomer  0.000248
                     Z_mobilis          1.99e-05
                     Protein            7.32e-05
                     Glucan             0.206
                     Xylan              0.0657
                     Xylitol            0.00305
                     Cellobiose         0.00133
                     Arabinan           0.0237
                     Mannan             0.0837
                     Galactan           0.0195
                     WWTsludge          5.9
                     Cellulase          0.00292
                     -----------------  1.12e+04 kg/hr

References