Title

Nitrification modeling in chloraminated distribution systems

Authors

Authors

S. B. Liu; J. S. Taylor; A. A. Randall;J. D. Dietz

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Abbreviated Journal Title

J. Am. Water Work Assoc.

Keywords

DRINKING-WATER; DECOMPOSITION PRODUCT; BATCH RESPIROGRAMS; NITRITE; OXIDATION; BIOFILM MODEL; AMMONIA; DISINFECTION; CHLORINE; Engineering, Civil; Water Resources

Abstract

This article describes a kinetic model for nitrification in a drinking water distribution system. Monod kinetics were used to develop a steady-state plug-flow kinetics model to describe the variations of ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate-N concentrations in a chloraminated distribution system. Active ammonia-oxidizing bacterial and nitrite-oxidizing bacterial biomasses in the distribution system were determined using predictive equations within the model. The kinetic model used numerical analysis and was solved to predict ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate using C programming language for computers, which is similar to FORTRAN but simpler to use.

Journal Title

Journal American Water Works Association

Volume

97

Issue/Number

10

Publication Date

1-1-2005

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

98

Last Page

108

WOS Identifier

WOS:000232583000028

ISSN

0003-150X

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