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Nutrient Removal Topics

Short, plain-language answers from the course Nutrient Removal: Nitrogen and Phosphorus for Wastewater Operators.

• Why Do Nutrients in Wastewater Matter?
• What Forms of Nitrogen Are in Wastewater?
• What Forms of Phosphorus Are in Wastewater?
• What Are the Two Steps of Nitrification?
• Why Does Nitrification Use Alkalinity?
• What Does Anoxic Mean?
• What Is Internal Mixed-Liquor Recycle?
• What Is Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal?
• What Are Volatile Fatty Acids?
• How Do Metal Salts Remove Phosphorus?
• What Is Struvite?
• What Is a Permit Averaging Period?