Getting to Very Low Effluent Nutrients Dr. James L. Barnard, PR.ENG.

Winner of the Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize 2011

Organised by: NUS Environmental Research Institute (NERI) Supported by: Public Utilities Board (PUB)
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Event Details: Date & Time: 08 July 2011 (Friday) , 3pm - 4pm Event Venue: NUS, 5A Engineering Drive 1,T-lab building, Level 5, Meeting Room 1, S117411, Map Contact Details: Ms Angel Zheng, email: eriazsh@nus.edu.sg Phone: 6601 1383 Abstract:
Biological nutrient removal has come a long way in providing treatment at low cost and low impact on the environment. There is a great emphasis in the USA to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus to the lowest levels possible at the lowest cost which may involve a combination of biological and chemical methods. This was referred to as Limits of Treatment technology or LOT. Clearly our technology will allow us to remove almost all nutrients completely with RO, but that is costly, it will consume a lot of energy if the water is to be discharged to a bay and there remains a reject stream containing concentrated nutrients. The term now includes at a reasonable cost. While it is possible to remove nitrogen to less than 3 mg/ and phosphorus to less than 0.15 mg/ by biological means, using filtration but low or no chemicals, getting to lower levels, require a knowledge of the remaining nitrogen and phosphorus compounds and how they react to treatment and what the effect on the environment is. Presently LOT is defined as 3 mg/ TN and 0.3 mg/ TP in the Chesapeake Bay area. My presentation will describe means of reducing the nutrients to these low levels at the lowest cost, using the best combination of biological and chemical methods. The presentation will also focus on low cost technologies and the levels of treatment that is achievable. This is more for application in poorer countries. Finally there is the paradigm shift to seeing used water as a resource for extracting nutrients for re-use. How can we position ourselves for the plant of tomorrow?

About the Speaker:

Dr Barnard is recognized internationally for developing the BARDENPHO Process (BARnard DENitrification and PHOsphorus removal), Phoredox (later AO and A2O), the Modified Balakrishnan/Eckenfelder (later called the MLE) process and the Westbank Process. He introduced biological nitrogen and phosphorus removal (BNR) processes to the USA and Canada. He is currently employed as Global Practice and Technology Leader by Black & Veatch in Kansas City, MO USA. He served as External Examiner for Ph.D. candidates from the Universities of Cape Town, Pretoria, British Columbia, Queensland, Manitoba, Purdue and Stavanger in Norway. He also served as Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia and taught courses in biological nutrient removal at the University of Queensland Winter School for ten years. He served on several Water Environmental Research Foundation Subcommittees, for oversight and critique of research projects that resulted in the following publications: Methods for Wastewater Characterization in Activated Sludge Modeling 99-WWF-3, and Project 01 -CTS-3, Biological Phosphorus Removal Survey and Investigation and RFP 02-CTS-1: Sustainable Technology for Achieving Very Low Nitrogen (N) and Phosphorus (P) Effluent Levels. He is presently serving on the International Advisory Team for Efficient, Cost-Effective Nutrient Removal from Wastewater 06-NUTR-1. He served or is serving on the Technical Advisory Committee for Nitrogen Removal for the City of New York, District of Columbia Water and Sewage Authority (DCWASA), Winnipeg MB, Canada; Los Angeles CA and Jacksonville FL. In South Africa he served on the council of the Water Institute of Southern Africa (WISA), twice as president. He also represented WISA on the Board of the Water Environment Federation. He also served a 4 year term on the Board of the IAWQ (now IWA). He is presently a member of IWA and WEF. NERIFor a Sustainable Future www.nus.edu.sg/neri