Ultraviolet spectrophotometry as an index parameter for estimating the biochemical oxygen demand of domestic wastewater

Environmental Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 789-800

  Nataraja, M ^a   Qin, Y ^b   Seagren, E A ^c  

^a Cadmus Group Inc   (United States)

^b Howard County Dept of Planning and Zoning   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

BOD; Index parameter; Prediction; UV absorbance; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENTS; FORECASTING; OXYGEN; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

DOMESTIC WASTEWATER; INDEX PARAMETERS; INFLUENT WASTEWATERS; ULTRAVIOLET ABSORBANCE; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; UV ABSORBANCE; WASTEWATER SAMPLES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS;

NITRATE; NITRITE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; OXYGEN;

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENTS; NITRIFICATION; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DOMESTIC WASTE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIODEGRADABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DILUTION; DOMESTIC WASTE; EFFLUENT; MONITORING; NITRIFICATION; SOLID; STANDARD; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; UNITED STATES; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER SAMPLING;

MARYLAND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33746776144     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593332708618691     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Metcalf & Eddy Inc., Wastewater Engineering: Treatment, Disposal, and Reuse, 3rd ed. McGraw-Hill Inc., New York, NY (1991).
2. 5: Are there alternatives available? J. Water Pollut. Control Fed., 51, 1799-1804 (1979).
3. APHA, AWWA and WEF, Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, 19th ed. American Public Health Association, American Water Works Association, and Water Environment Federation, Washington, D.C. (1995).
4. Logan B.E. and Wagenseller G.A., The HBOD test: A new method for determining biochemical oxygen demand. Water Environ. Res., 65, 862-868 (1993).
5. Logan B.E. and Patnaik R., A gas chromatographic-based headspace biochemical oxygen demand test. Water Environ. Res., 69, 206-214 (1997).
6. Young J.C. and Baumann E.R., The electrolytic respirometer-II. Use in water pollution control plant laboratories. Water Res., 10, 1141-1149 (1976).
7. Zehnpfennig R. and Nichols M.S., Inoculation studies in B.O.D. determination on sewage and pulp mill waste. Sewage Ind. Wastes, 25, 61-65 (1953).
8. Busch A.W., BOD progression in soluble substrates. Sewage Ind. Wastes, 30, 1336-1349 (1958).
9. Hiser L.L. and Busch A.W., An 8-hr biological oxygen demand test using mass culture aeration and COD. J. Water Pollut. Control Fed., 36, 505-516 (1964).
10. Mullis M.K. and Schroeder E.D., A rapid biochemical oxygen demand test suitable for operational control. J. Water Pollut. Control Fed., 43, 209-215 (1971).
11. Karube I., Matsunaga T., Mitsuda S. and Suzuki S., Microbial electrode BOD sensors. Biotechnol. Bioeng., 19, 1535-1547 (1977).
12. Karube I., Mitsuda S., Matsunaga T. and Suzuki S., Rapid method for estimation of BOD by using immobilized microbial-cells. J. Ferment. Technol., 55, 243-248 (1977).
13. Karube I., Matsunaga T. and Suzuki S., A new microbial electrode for BOD estimation. J. Sol.-Phase Biochem., 2, 97-104 (1977).
14. Hikuma M., Suzuki H., Yasuda T., Karube I. and Suzuki S., Amperometric estimation of BOD by using living immobilized yeasts. Eur. J. Appl. Microbiol., 8, 289-297 (1979).
15. Kulys J. and Kadziauskiene K., Yeast BOD sensor. Biotechnol. Bioeng., 22, 221-226 (1980).
16. Strand S.E. and Carlson D.A., Rapid BOD measurement for municipal wastewater samples using a biofilm electrode. J. Water Pollut. Control Fed., 56, 464-467 (1984).
17. Hikuma M. and Yasadu T., Microbial sensors for estimation of biochemical oxygen demand and determination of glutamate. Method. Enzymol., 137, 124-131 (1988).
18. Riedel K., Renneberg R., Kühn M. and Scheller F., A fast estimation of biochemical oxygen demand using microbial sensors. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol., 28, 316-318 (1988).
19. Karube I., Yokoyama K., Sode K. and Tamiya R., Microbial BOD sensor utilizing thermophilic bacteria. Anal. Lett., 22, 791-801 (1989).
20. Riedel K., Lange K.P., Stein H.-J., Kuhn M., Ott P. and Scheller F., A microbial sensor for BOD. Water Res., 24, 883-887 (1990).
21. Hyun C.-K., Tamiya E., Takeuchi T. and Karube I., A novel BOD sensor based on bacterial luminescence. Biotechnol. Bioeng., 41, 1107-1111 (1993).
22. Yang Z., Suzuki H., Sasaki S. and Karube I., Disposable sensor for biochemical oxygen demand. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol., 46, 10-14 (1996).
23. Marty J.L., Olive D. and Asano Y., Measurement of BOD: Correlation between 5-day BOD and commercial BOD biosensor values. Environ. Technol., 18, 333-337 (1997).
24. Riedel K., Lehmann M., Tag K., Renneberg R. and Kunze G., Arxula adeninivorans based sensor for the estimation of BOD. Anal. Lett., 31, 1-12 (1998).
25. Qian Z. and Tan T.C., BOD measurement in the presence of heavy metal ions using a thermally-killed-Bacillus subtilis biosensor. Water Res., 33, 2923-2928 (1999).
26. Kim M.-N. and Kwon H.-S., Biochemical oxygen demand sensor using Serratia marcescens LSY4. Biosens. Bioelectron., 14, 1-7 (1999).
27. Liu J., Björnsson L. and Mattiasson B., Immobilized activated sludge based biosensor for biochemical oxygen demand measurement. Biosens. Bioelectron., 14, 883-893 (2000).
28. Yoshida N., Yano K., Morita T., McNiven S.J., Nakamura H. and Karube I., A mediator-type biosensor as a new approach to biochemical oxygen demand estimation. Analyst, 125, 2280-2284 (2000).
29. Bari A. and Farooq S., Measurement of wastewater treatment efficiency by fluorescence and UV absorbance. Environ. Monit. Assess., 5, 423-434 (1985).
30. Comber S.D.W., Gardner M.J. and Gunn A.M., Measurement of absorbance and fluorescence as potential alternatives to BOD. Environ. Technol., 17, 771-776 (1996).
31. Reynolds D.M. and Ahmad S.R., Rapid and direct determination of wastewater BOD values using a fluorescence technique. Water Res., 31, 2012-2018 (1997).
32. Michail M. and Idelovitch E., Gross organics measurements for monitoring of wastewater treatment and reuse. In: Chemistry in Water Reuse, vol. 1, Cooper W.J. (ed.), Ann Arbor Science Publishers, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, USA. pp. 35-64 (1981).
33. Brookman S.K.E., Estimation of biochemical oxygen demand in slurry and effluents using ultra-violet spectrophotometry. Water Res., 31, 372-374 (1997).
34. 5 estimation for pulp and paper mill effluent using UV absorbance. Water Res., 35, 1842-1850 (2001).
35. Iranpour R., Straub B. and Jugo T., Real time BOD monitoring for wastewater process control. J. Environ. Eng., 123, 154-159 (1997).
36. Londong J. and Wachtl P., Six years of practical experience with the operation of on-line analysers. Water Sci. Technol., 33, 159-164 (1996).
37. Guwy A.J., Farley L.A., Cunnah P., Hawkes F.R., Hawkes D.L., Chase M. and Buckland H., An automated instrument for monitoring oxygen demand in polluted waters. Water Res., 33, 3142-3148 (1999).
38. Bourgeois W., Burgess J.E. and Stuetz R.M., On-line monitoring of wastewater quality: A review. J. Chem. Technol. Biotechnol., 76, 337-348 (2001).
39. Thomas O., Theraulaz F., Domeizel M. and Massiani C., UV spectral deconvolution: a valuable tool for waste-water quality determination. Environ. Technol., 14, 1187-1192 (1993).
40. Thomas O., Theraulaz F., Agnel C. and Suryani S., Advanced UV examination of wastewater. Environ. Technol., 17, 251-261 (1996).
41. Dobbs R.A., Wise R.H. and Dean R.B., The use of ultra-violet absorbance for monitoring the total organic carbon content of water and wastewater. Water Res., 6, 1173-1180 (1972).
42. Matsché N. and Stumwöhrer K., UV absorption as control-parameter for biological treatment plants. Water Sci. Technol., 33, 211-218 (1996).
43. Mrkva M., Investigation of organic pollution of surface waters by ultraviolet spectrophotometry. J. Water Pollut. Control Fed., 41, 1923-1931 (1969).
44. Mrkva M., Automatic U.V.-control system for relative evaluation of organic water pollution. Water Res., 9, 587-598 (1975).
45. Mrkva M., Evaluation of correlations between absorbance at 254 nm and COD of river waters. Water Res., 17, 231-235 (1983).
46. Mandel J., The Statistical Analysis of Experimental Data. Dover Publications, New York, NY (1964).
47. Levine A.D., Tchobanoglous G. and Asano T., Characterization of the size distribution of contaminants in wastewater: Treatment and reuse implications. J. Water Pollut. Control Fed., 57, 805-816 (1985).
48. Black A.P. and Christman R.F., Characteristics of colored surface waters. J. Am. Water Works Assoc., 55, 753-770 (1963).
49. Hach, Hach Water Analysis Handbook, 3rd ed. Hach Company, Loveland, CO, USA (1997).
50. Rickert D.A. and Hunter J.V., General nature of soluble and particulate organics in sewage and secondary effluent. Water Res., 5, 421-437 (1971).
51. Balmat J.L., Biochemical oxidation of various particulate fractions of sewage. Sewage Ind. Wastes, 29, 757-761 (1957).
52. Fritz J.S. and Schenk G.H., Quantitative Analytical Chemistry, 4th edn. Allyn and Bacon, Inc., Boston, MA, USA (1979).
53. Berthouex P.M. and Brown L.C., Statistics for Environmental Engineers. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL, USA (1994).
54. Winsor C.P., Which regression? Biometrics B., 2, 101-109 (1946).
55. Lindley D.V., Regression lines and the linear functional relationship. J. Roy. Stat. Soc., Supplement 9, 218-244 (1947).
56. Madansky A., The fitting of straight lines when both variables are subject to error. J. Am. Stat. Assoc., 54, 173-205 (1959).
57. Sáez P.B. and Rittmann B.E., Model-parameter estimation using least squares. Water Res., 26, 789-796 (1992).
58. Mendenhall W. and Sincich T., Statistics for the Engineering and Computer Sciences. Dellen Publishing Company, Santa Clara, CA, USA (1984).
59. Bastian R., Weberling R. and Palilla F., Ultraviolet spectrophotometric determination of nitrate-application to analysis of alkaline earth carbonates. Anal. Chem., 29, 1795-1797 (1957).