Simultaneous removal of carbon and nitrogen from municipal-type synthetic wastewater using net-like
rotating biological contactor (NRBC), Process Biochemistry 41(12): 2468-2472.
Their topics include the anaerobic treatment of wastewater from used industrial oil recovery, the biodegradability of oily wastewater using a
rotating biological contactor combined with an external membrane, intracellular biosynthesis and removal of copper nanoparticles by dead biomass of yeast isolated from the wastewater of a mine in the Brazilian Amazonia, applying ozone-related processes to mineralize tetramethyl ammonium hydroxide in aqueous solution, improving the efficiency of a coagulation-flocculate wastewater treatment of the semiconductor industry through zeta potential measurements, and treating wastewater effluents from paper-recycling plants by coagulation process and optimization of treatment conditions with response surface methodology.
"The removal rates we saw during the pilot test are comparable to removal rates from a
rotating biological contactor, which is a commonly used device in mechanical treatment facilities," Johnson says.
Upgrading of
rotating biological contactor systems to achieve higher effluent quality, including biological nutrient enrichment and reduction techniques, Water Science and Technology, 29(12):197-206.
Later, a
rotating biological contactor and an oxidation ditch were proposed, but were rejected by the town as obnoxious neighbors.
Popular alternatives are the
rotating biological contactor, mound systems, and aerobic treatment plants.
The fixed surfaces may also be in the form of discs slowly rotating in a channel on a common shaft, called the
rotating biological contactor. While neither are filters in the sense that they mechanically remove solids, they do provide a reacting medium that results in a biological transformation of the organic solids, in the presence of oxygen or under aerobic conditions.
The
rotating biological contactor (RBC) process appears to offer several advantages over the activated sludge process.