This book describes a simplified approach to the modelling and process design of a fixed bed hybrid bioreactor for wastewater treatment. In this work a simplified model for hybrid bioreactor is developed to determine output parameters like exiting substrate concentration in bulk liquid, average substrate flux in the biofilm, effective and total biofilm thickness. The model is based on mass balance of both carbonaceous substrate and biomass under suspended and attached growth simultaneously along with substrate mass transport into the biofilm. The proposed model has also been validated with the results obtained from experimental study with municipal wastewater considering as a low strength wastewater with no inhibition. There is a flexibility of the proposed model making it a versatile one to find out the exiting substrate concentration both in hybrid bioreactor as well as in a completely mixed biofilm reactor (CMBR). The book caters to academics and practitioners working in the field of advanced wastewater treatment.
In contrast to the traditional laboratory while the researchers or students can interact directly to the lab equipment and perform physical actions to obtain experimental data, Remote Laboratories conduct the same interactions at a remote location, with the assistance of local researcher or mechatronic control hardware, with a direct control of the data acquisition process through information infrastructure such as internet. Remote laboratory as a concept and as an effective research approach has been explored at several laboratories and at the Multifunctional Electronic Materials and Devices Research Lab at University of Texas at San Antonio. In the era of internet and cloud computing, remote laboratory labs can empower users' access to research facilities and essentially diminish physical distances for conducting experimental research. Moreover the remote laboratories can promote research collaborations, enable sharing research infrastructure and resources, and bring institutional and national cooperative research and working relationships to a new level. Hands-on laboratory experimentation plays an important role as well in the education of engineers and researchers; yet traditional lab courses are limited in contents and availability that are locally available in a given department or institutional unit. Remote Laboratories or laboratory experiments designed for remote users have the potential to fill this void. This thesis deals with administration of the remote access to a real laboratory - Multifunctional Electronic Materials and Devices Research Lab (MeMDRL) at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). Upon comparisons made for different models, the preferred remote laboratory access to the UTSA MeMDRL is to be based on client-server architecture and implemented using the Remote Desktop Connection, a feature in Windows Server 2012. The aim of this thesis is to develop a scheduling and administration model (online calendar system) and demonstrate a fully functional remote lab system with video streaming.
This book describes a simplified approach to the modelling and process design of a fixed bed hybrid bioreactor for wastewater treatment. In this work a simplified model for hybrid bioreactor is developed to determine output parameters like exiting substrate concentration in bulk liquid, average substrate flux in the biofilm, effective and total biofilm thickness. The model is based on mass balance of both carbonaceous substrate and biomass under suspended and attached growth simultaneously along with substrate mass transport into the biofilm. The proposed model has also been validated with the results obtained from experimental study with municipal wastewater considering as a low strength wastewater with no inhibition. There is a flexibility of the proposed model making it a versatile one to find out the exiting substrate concentration both in hybrid bioreactor as well as in a completely mixed biofilm reactor (CMBR). The book caters to academics and practitioners working in the field of advanced wastewater treatment.
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