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Innovative Treatment Plant Operational Strategies

Biological Sensing as a real-time monitor to facilitate timely wastewater treatment decision-making

Wednesday, April 19, 2023
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM PST
Come learn about real-time, low-maintenance Bio-Electric Sensing (BES) instrumentation, and how it uses bio-fouling to provide insights into influent conditions and treatment performance. Hear from the General Manage of Sewer Authority Mid-coaside about their experience using BES to master extremely variable influent conditions with FEWER manual COD samples.

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the role of 'influent conditions' (such as high or low organic loading) on effluent quality violations and plant upsets.
  • Understand how earlier, real-time information/data can be used effectively to improve plant process performance during high influent loading events, through taking proper corrective/preventative action.
  • Understand how BES technology works, and what its potential applications could be at their facility
  • Understand the relationship between "Carbon Consumption Rate" and COD measurements
  • Identify ways staff time can be deployed for other activities, instead of laboratory measurement