Dear Daniela, Could you ...

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Dear Daniela,

Could you identify the source or location of the smell?

Is it chemical or biological smell?

- chemical; eventually an industrial polluter

- biological; frome some undetected anaerobic process, eventually from sewer system ...

Which plant, size and process?

BR Mathias

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Keep your system aerobic. If the smell goes beyond plant's boundaries, plant trees.

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Complete treatment is carried out in the following treatment steps:

 

-Mechanical treatment with rare and frequent gratings, disinfecting and primary settling.

-Biological treatment through a process involving secondary sedimentation with recirculation activated sludge( ARS);

-Stabilization of sludge by fermentation and dehydratation of stabilized sludge;

-The odor source is from the treatment process and dewatering of sludge (H2S,NOx .....
 

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As one of the responses above, I would suggest covering the odor sources and venting to a biofilter. Assuming the major sources are the headworks and dewatering should be fairly easy to accomplish. The activated sludge process should not be causing odors if it is healthy. Be very careful if you consider adding chemicals to avoid killing off the activated sludge biomass.

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