Organizing the Waterloo Biofilter biological process for treating wastewater concentrated by extreme water conservation plumbing

滑铁卢生物过滤系统公司是一家由美国拥有和经营的公司，开发，设计，制造和维护先进的现场废水处理系统。Waterloo Biofilter技术为住宅（个人住宅和集群或公共系统），商业（高尔夫球场，餐厅，度假村等），轻工业和小型市政应用。所有Waterloo Biofilter处理装置均采用专利高效过滤介质，以支持和维持生物种群，降解废水中的污染物。能源与环境设计领导力（LEED）绿色建筑评级系统是一个第三方认证计划，是国家认可的高性能建筑设计、施工和运营基准。 绿色建筑。LEED计划鼓励并加速全球采用可持续的绿色建筑和开发实践，在人类和环境健康的五个关键领域制定建筑性能标准：可持续的场地开发，节水，能源效率，材料选择和室内环境质量。Waterloo Biofilter的紧凑性和高处理水平提供了一个最小的系统和处理场的足迹，有助于减少开发的总足迹和最大限度地增加植被开放空间。然而，LEED绿色建筑废水具有独特的特征，即低固体含量和高氨浓度，因此与常规废水相比，其处理具有挑战性。因此，评估氮碳比（N/C）和生物过滤器之前的化粪池和泵池中的固体停留时间的影响对于优化生物过滤器是至关重要的。 滑铁卢生物过滤器处理LEED绿色建筑废水，并确定最佳设计标准。

Waterloo Biofilter Systems Inc. is a Canadian-owned and operated company that develops, designs, manufactures and maintains advanced onsite wastewater treatment systems. Waterloo Biofilter technology provides a variety of innovative decentralized sewage treatment solutions for residential (individual homes & clustered or communal systems), commercial (golf course, restaurant, resort, etc.), light industrial and small municipal applications. All Waterloo Biofilter treatment units utilize a patented high-efficiency filter medium to support and sustain biological populations that degrade contaminants found in wastewater. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System is a third-party certification program and the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings. The LEED program encourages and accelerates the global adoption of sustainable green building and development practices by setting out building performance standards in five key areas of human and environmental health: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection, and indoor environmental quality. Waterloo Biofilter's compact nature and high treatment levels provide for one of the smallest system and disposal field footprints available, helping to reduce the development's total footprint and maximize vegetated open spaces. However, LEED Green Building wastewaters have unique characteristics i.e. low solids content with high-ammonia concentration and thus its treatment is challenging compared to the conventional wastewater. Therefore, evaluating the effect of nitrogen to carbon (N/C) ratio and the solid retention time in the septic and pumping tanks prior to the biofilter is essential to optimize the Waterloo Biofilter treating LEED Green Building wastewaters and identify the optimum design criteria.