Webinar - Wastewater Monitoring & Control - BOD/COD/TOC monitoring of influent/effluent

The webinar demonstrated and discussed the vital role of sensors like Proteus in monitoring our wastewater.

Agenda:

• Welcome & Introduction
• The UK and legislative backdrop to monitoring & treating wastewater.
• Proteus: the science & how it works
• How can Proteus measure BOD/COD/TOC accurately in real-time in wastewater? The evidence…
• Optimising WWTWs & saving 1% of the world’s energy consumption – real-time aeration control.
• Final Effluent Monitoring – real-time off-grid multiparameter water quality monitoring including BOD/COD
• Appetizer: Using tryptophan as a surrogate for phosphorus? An interesting perspective
• Q&A Discussion

UK Wastewater Treatment:
The UK has 20 water utilities which invest £5.85 billion per annum in assets and £5.7 billion in services.

UK Wastewater at a glance:
>393,463 km of sewers which collect >11 billion litres of wastewater
7,078 WWTW in England & Wales
98% of households connected to sewerage network.
UK wastewater is treated through primary (settling) and secondary (OM breakdown) treatment; tertiary treatment is also used to protect sensitive water environments and can include nutrient removal.

Treated wastewater is subject to permit clearance before discharge into streams & rivers.
~9000 WWTWs