Observe the San Diego Water Board's Practical Vision for the region

This course will share how these new technologies and data management tools can work together to enable Condition-Based Maintenance of system assets to improve efficiency and achieve better outcomes.

Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts (Sanitation Districts) own and operate the Los Coyotes Water Reclamation Plant (LCWRP), which is a conventional activated sludge (CAS) step feed process that nitrifies and achieves effluent TIN concentrations less than 8 mg/L. The Sanitation Districts recently conducted a successful membrane aerated biofilm reactor (MABR) pilot (Mansell et al 2022); however, due to mechanical issues, the pilot could not be operated at low SRTs to confirm performance and capacity benefits. This work leverages the pilot results and dynamic process modeling to evaluate MABRs for capacity and treatment enhancement at the LCWRP. The work establishes appropriate target SRTs for achieving comparable performance and reliability between CAS and MABR processes in a warm climate such as experienced in Southern California.

This webinar will cover the role of SCWO to transform waste inputs into usable byproducts.