Patent ID: 8425782

Claim:
A method for processing wastewater within a wastewater treatment plant comprising: diverting a portion of wastewater flowing through the wastewater treatment plant between a treatment plant inlet and a biological treatment stage; separating solids in the diverted wastewater from liquid therein; reintroducing the solids before the biological treatment stage while not reintroducing at least a substantial portion of the liquid; sensing the wastewater loading in said treatment plant inlet; and dynamically jointly adjusting in response to said sensing: a) a rate at which the solids are reintroduced; and b) a rate at which wastewater is diverted, the dynamically jointly adjusting being carried out in such a way that a quantity of wastewater flowing into the biological treatment stage per unit time downstream of the diverting is adjusted to be no more than a preset quantity.