There is a growing public awareness of environmental issues these
days; sewage treatment is no exception to this trend. Advanced sewage
treatment is thus becoming indispensable, the purpose of which is
to conserve the water environment into which effluent is discharged,
prevent eutrophication of closed waters, maintain the quality of
raw water, and recycle treated sewage as water resources. There
are a variety of technologies for treating sewage to a high degree,
such as sand filtration, biological filtration, and activated carbon
filtration. In particular, biological filtration is becoming a focus
of attention because of its unique combination of physical filtration
(through sand filters) and microbial filtration. We have developed
a biological filtration system for treating sewage to a high degree.
This is a unique system that can be characterized by granule ceramic
filter materials and a lower collection tub. Biological filtration
is quite effective in treating sewage because it can remove both
highly toxic ammonia nitrogen and nitrite nitrogen.
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