Innovative municipal wastewater treatment with resource recovery

在过去的三十年中，UBC的研究人员一直致力于开发废水处理的新技术和新策略。这一努力在除磷和回收、膜生物反应器和污泥调理等领域取得了若干突破。在下一阶段的工作中，UBC团队正在寻求与废水处理从业者合作，开展一项重大研究项目，以实现两个雄心勃勃的目标。第一个目标是生产一种超高质量的污水（就传统和新出现的污染物而言），供直接排放或再利用，同时回收磷、氮和碳。第二个目标是开发和演示一种废水处理系统，该系统产生很少或没有需要进一步处理和处置的副产物污泥。如果这些目标中的一个或两个能够实现，结果将是一个具有成本效益的废水处理的新范例。

For the past thirty years, researchers at UBC have been working to develop new technologies and strategies for wastewater treatment. This effort has resulted in several breakthroughs in such areas as phosphorus removal and recovery, membrane bioreactors and sludge conditioning. In the next phase of work, the UBC team is seeking to collaborate with wastewater treatment practitioners in a major research project that addresses two ambitious goals. The first goal is to produce an ultra-high quality effluent (in terms of conventional and emerging contaminants) for direct discharge or re-use, with simultaneous recovery of phosphorus, nitrogen and carbon. The second goal is to develop and demonstrate a wastewater treatment system that produces little, or no, byproduct sludge that requires further treatment and disposal. If one or both of these objectives can be achieved, the result will be a new paradigm for cost-efficient wastewater treatment.