Many wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are managed/optimized through chemical analysis even though the systems are biological in nature.  While there are a variety of biological analytical tests available to understand the microbiology of a WWTP, there use for monitoring to improve WWTP performance is somewhat limited due to their turnaround time.  Microscopy is a common analytical technique used to understand the microbiology of a WWTP.  Techniques in this area can give information into the type of microbes present along with information about the flocculation characters of the effluent.  An issue with microscopic techniques is that there is usually a human element involved in both the imagine quality and imagine interpretation.  This human element to microscopy can cause issues or decrease the effectiveness of long-term monitoring of the WWTP performance.  With recent advances in microscopic imaging techniques, imagine recognition software and mathematical modeling software programs there is now the ability to convert microscopic imagines of wastewater treatment effluent into numerical data that removes the human interpretation factor.  The numerical data from this methodology allows for industrial users to monitor biological data through dashboards that were once only used only for chemical information.  We will be demonstrating the use of this methodology in an industrial WWTP application.<br/>

Using microscopy techniques to quantitate biological systems for improving wastewater treatment plant performance

Macromolecular Chemistry: The Second Century

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