Wastewater Test Program Set-up

Inserting ATP analyses into your standard measurement and monitoring programs is easy and provides powerful information about microbiological quality in any wastewater treatment sample.

You can use LuminUltra’s QG21W test kits to measure microorganism concentration and stress in any location, including:

• Process influents from different industrial sources, throughout collection systems, or at composite sampling points;

• Primary clarification units and equalization basins;

• Aerobic bioreactors, including lagoons, activated sludge, UNOX, sequencing batch reactors, aerobic digesters, and membrane bioreactors;

• Anaerobic bioreactors, including facultative lagoons, selector zones, upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) bioreactors, membrane bioreactors, and digesters;

• Process effluents including secondary effluent, tertiary effluents, and disinfected effluents.

There are two strategies with which ATP measurements can be applied to benefit operators of wastewater treatment bioreactors:

Short-term Audits:

Use ATP measurements to characterize microorganism concentration and health throughout a wastewater treatment system on a single day by measuring at multiple locations in untreated influents, bioreactors, and treated effluents. Opportunities for improvement can be identified by comparing these data points.

Bench-scale studies using the Biomass Growth Index procedure can also help the user to understand how different process influents impact biomass and the effects of different pre-treatment or chemical dosing options. The following case studies are applicable to audit-type testing:

• Using ATP to Measure Living Biomass in Wastewater Treatment
• Using ATP Measurements to Evaluate Bioadditive Performance
• Using ATP Measurements to Perform Process Audits
• Using ATP Measurements to Assess Upstream Process Changes
• Using the Biomass Growth Index to Assess Wastewater Source Quality

Long-term Monitoring Programs:

ATP measurements truly excel as a continuous improvement tool, providing the first line of defense against process upsets and a true measure of biomass concentration and stress in identifying opportunities for optimization.

Measure ATP in untreated influents, bioreactors, and treated effluents and compare alongside other collected data to create a better understanding of cause-and-effect in wastewater treatment operations. The following case studies are applicable to routine-type testing:

• Using ATP to Measure Living Biomass in Wastewater Treatment
• Using ATP Measurements to Evaluate Bioadditive Performance
• Early-Warning of Upsets and Toxicity in Wastewater Treatment
• Using ATP Measurements to Assess Upstream Process Changes
• Using ATP Measurements to Troubleshoot Bioreactor Stress Mechanisms
• Wastewater Treatment Continuous Improvement Using ATP Monitoring