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I'm really kind of confused at this place. But I guess I am more generous than my awesome London host Yee Gan O. who gave this place 2 stars.
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Visiting Flat White was a big meh moment for me. From all the reviews, it looked amazing, but when I arrived I saw a very cramped, small place that was hideously busy. It was dark and dingy and my seat was uncomfortable.
The coffee was so-so, I got the cheese toastie sandwich (cheapest food on the menu) and it was also so-so. Nothing to write home about, nothing to come back for. From the...more
The coffee was really good, as was the atmosphere. The food -- only good.
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Served by the ultra cool hipster dude complete with comedy moustache and trilby hat. The shop a had a cool laid back feel but was rather noisy dispite being fairly quiet when I was there. It was very hot inside and they didn't have their fans turned on. (are they just decorations?)
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El Rey Gris was written by Susan Cooper. El Rey Gris was published by Montena. Subjects of El Rey Gris include Fairy Tales & Folklore - Anthologies, Juvenile Fiction, and Spanish: Kindergarten.
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1 Kings 20:20 And they slew every one his man; and the Arameans fled, and Israel pursued them; and Ben-hadad the king of Aram escaped on a horse with horsemen. (See NIV)
2 Kings 9:18 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, "Thus says the king,'Is it peace?'" Jehu said, "What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!" The watchman said, "The messenger came to them, but he isn't coming back." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)
2 Kings 9:19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them, and said, "Thus says the king,'Is it peace?'" Jehu answered, "What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me!" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)
2 Kings 14:20 And they took his body on horseback and put it into the earth with his fathers in Jerusalem, the town of David. (BBE)
2 Chronicles 25:28 And they took his body on horseback and put it into the earth with his fathers in the town of David. (BBE)
Esther 6:9 Let the clothing and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man whom the king delights to honor with them, and have him ride on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him,'Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!'" (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS NAS RSV)
Esther 6:11 Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour. (KJV BBE WBS NAS NIV)
Esther 8:10 He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by courier on horseback, riding on royal horses that were bread from swift steeds. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS)
Ecclesiastes 10:7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. (See NIV)
Isaiah 22:6 And Elam was armed with arrows, and Aram came on horseback; and the breastplate of Kir was uncovered. (BBE)
Jeremiah 17:25 Then through the doors of this town there will come kings and princes, seated on the seat of David, going in carriages and on horseback, they and their princes, and the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem: and this town will keep its place for ever. (BBE)
Jeremiah 22:4 For if you truly do this, then there will come in through the doors of this house kings seated on the seat of David, going in carriages and on horseback, he and his servants and his people (BBE)
Ezekiel 23:23 The Babylonians and all the Chaldaeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: young men to be desired, captains and rulers all of them, and chiefs, her neighbours, all of them on horseback. (BBE)
Ezekiel 23:24 And they will come against you from the north on horseback, with war-carriages and a great band of peoples; they will put themselves in order against you with breastplate and body-cover and metal head-dress round about you: and I will make them your judges, and they will give their decision against you as seems right to them. (BBE)
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There are many benefits to using Cassandra, but the most obvious in a big data context is its ability in a real time environment.
For instance, the speed at which Sairanne can gain insight when placing financial trades can mean the difference between a big gain and huge loss. Because of the caching techniques at work within cassandra, this data can serve her purposes with an emphasis on speed and opening up great opportunities for analytics.It's the ideal distributed system when Velocity is the main V on your agenda.
Much has been made of Hadoop 2.0's ability to utilise YARN -- but what on earth does that even mean?
YARN stands for Yet Another Resource Negotiator -- so let's have a look at its impact with an example.
Sarianne is working on the biggest group of the biggest data sets she's had access to since starting work at the Financial Services provider. Previously, the versions of Hadoop and MapReduce would have limited how much could be done at the same time because everything was batch-oriented.
Now, MapReuce 2.0 (or YARN) allows more to happen simultaneously, by splitting the old MapReduce JobTracker into a ResourceManager and ApplicationMaster, meaning less of a queue, and more everything-at-once functionality.
Long story short, with YARN and Hadoop 2.0, Sarianne has more power than ever.
Major components of Hadoop have been rewritten for 2.0 meaning Hadoop can now burst through the 4,000 machines per cluster barrier. It can also now support YARN, the newer, more scalable and flexible version of MapReduce.
At this stage, though, 2.0 isn't as stable as the original Hadoop. So before you jump in you have to think: Do you want stability, or can't you wait for that extended level of flexibility and scalability?
Hue is the Hadoop User Experience, but what can it do for you?
At its core, Hue provides a user interface which makes Hadoop (and Hadoop services) easier to use.
As an example, let's take Sarianne -- she's hard at work looking for insight in the millions of transactions her financial services employer has collected.
It's time to open the workload out to the wider team -- but rather than having everyone learn to code the hard way like she does, she makes use of HUE. This slaps an easy to navigate graphical interface onto many Hadoop tasks -- so that the people around her can have access to the data without worrying about the inherent complexities in the Hadoop and HDFS world.
Tobias has made great progress with his data warehouse setup, and he's running business-wide reports on DVD sales like his life depends on it.
But now he wants Sioban, his head of product development, to have access to the data that enable her to spot gaps in what they offer customers.
So he sets her up with a data mart -- which is an access layer built specifically to get data out to its users.
It allows Sioban to have an isolated slice of the overall data. As a result, she can munge, extrapolate, parse, and run experiments on her data without affecting the overall company data.
A data warehouse is a collection of data, specifically designed to let you run reports and analytics.
Tobias has brought in a data specialist to get his online movie retail business into the big time, but he's confused about what the specialist keeps referring to as a data warehouse. He's got his database set up. Isn't that his data warehouse?
Technically, no. A database is simply the way we store any kind of data, whereas a data warehouse is specifically set up to run reports and analyze. It's data, but it has specific, definable business value.
This will allow Tobias to tailor his storage solution. His data warehouse takes pride of place on faster, more expensive disks in more accessible forms. The rest of his data is collected for potential use or out of legal obligation on more standard and cheaper disks.
All this data, from star ratings to personal opinion, was added for human consumption. There's no easy "export as XML" function on Amazon review lists. That is where data scraping comes in. In essence, it's about Tobias identifying the elements he needs and running a program to export them into a database of his own. Of course, he'll need to match up the ratings across stars, percentages, scores, etc., as well as figure out what kind of sentiment analysis he wants to carry out on written comments -- but that's up to him.
Now, this "meant for human eyes" data is computer readable, and Tobias can begin munging and rearranging that data until it suits his analytical needs.
Sarianne is still slogging away on her financial data and has thrown herself into fixing up the poor-quality data her company has spent years ignorantly collecting.
She uses parsing to find syntax errors in her data collections. For instance, if a financial transaction record's time format doesn't comply with what she would expect to find in the system, parsing will quickly flag it up as erroneous -- after all, you can't fix what you don't know is broken.
Once found, she can use data transformation in some cases to map this data into the format the business needs.
It's not new to any kind of data work, but duplicate elimination plays a huge role in Sarianne's data cleansing routine. She can use an algorithm to find those suspected duplicate representations and then get to work deduping.
She can also use statistical methods to find clusters, and mean and standard deviation as a way to compare the data to itself and find outlying elements. It could flag up erroneous data, but you'd need to take care not to simply be working to correct outliers.
These tools and more are at Sarianne's disposal, but they will never replace her ability to spot deviations and use reason and hard work to increase the data quality overall.
There's validity, which is all about making sure new data conforms to the defined rules of your business. We all know how irritating it can be to get incomplete phone numbers, postcodes where names should be, or prices in the unique identifier fields.
There's consistency, which Tobias can use to make sure he has the right information on his customers. If one entry says a customer lives in Perth, Australia but a ZIP code in Beverly Hills appears elsewhere, an alarm bell should be ringing.
There's accuracy, which is incredibly hard for Tobias to achieve, because there isn't really a go-to, faultless version of his data out there. Having said that, if he had an external database of postal codes and their relevant geographic locations, he'd have a better chance of figuring out if that customer really lived in WA6000 or 90210.
There's completeness. In Tobias's case, a problem there would look like blank cells in his records. That's very difficult to fix, short of just making stuff up.
There are many more criteria for checking data quality. Tobias can put a data governance plan in to improve data input, but there are no easy criteria to use once bad data has been collected and stored.
It's a pain because it doesn't just involve fixing the data. It also involves identifying and locating poor data in a nebulous collection. It's like looking for a slightly bent needle in a stack of needles.
Luckily, Sarianne and her team don't have to do all this manually. Statistical and database methods can be employed to automate some of these processes. For instance, statistical models can be used to compare every entry against a mean, thus exposing potentially erroneous entries that deviate from the norm.
And there's the rub, because we all know those outliers could easily be correct data points that signify some insight that can be found. Tools or no tools, Sarianne has got her work cut out for her.
Sarianne is hard at work in the financial markets. After some exploratory queries of her stored data, she's realised it's a mess. She needs a system to make sure the errors and lazy management stop as soon as possible.
Creating a data governance plan allows her to dictate how certain data will be collected and initiate plans to monitor its quality as it is entered. Crucially, a well drawn governance plan will also allow her to hold departments and team members responsible for their own areas of data. It will put a stop to data issues being brushed under the carpet or dismissed as being a wider company problem.
These rules will help Sarianne going forward, but what about all that rotten data she's already got?
Entity disambiguation can be used to make sure that products, people, or topics that share a similar or exact name are properly differentiated from one another.
Let's explore this with a simple example
Last time we saw Fatima, she was using simple sentiment analysis technology to discover how people felt about her game Disgruntled Dogs.
The results weren't great, but when discussing her findings with the team, it was pointed out that their launch coincided with a Twitter campaign from residents in a localized area who were fed up listening to their neighbors' dogs yapping. The terms "disgruntled" and "dogs" turned up a lot in the campaign, meaning Fatima's sentiment analysis was not just focused on how people felt about her product.
Entity disambiguation can help define the search so it only pulls information relative to her needs. This can be done via establishing rules or through machine learning. In Fatima's case, she is using supervised learning on a training set of data to define terms which do or don't define the comment as being useful to her, by analyzing the words surrounding her key terms. She can use that training set to create an algorithm, which will allow her to run sentiment analysis on a smaller but more relevant group of results. Only time will tell if Disgruntled Dogs is better received than her first study revealed.
Semi-supervised learning meets unsupervised learning half way by combining both labelled and unlabelled data in the learning process.
Here's a simple example of how it might work for a business
We're back with Tobias and his online DVD business. We've already seen him use unsupervised learning to split his mailing list into two groups so that each can receive messaging more likely to result in a sale. Now, he wants to define these groups to a higher degree of accuracy. Unsupervised learning allows him to do this by working with labelled data (which can be expensive or time consuming to come by) with unlabelled data (which is more readily available and generally cheaper) to train the algorithm.
Using his labelled data as an anchor point, semi-supervised learning can then spot where clusters of the unlabelled data points can fit around it. What this means is he essentially has access to a bigger training set of data... and more data means more accuracy. Adjusting his groupings, he will be able to more accurately split his data into clusters in the hope that those marketing newsletters will yield even more sales.
Supervised Learning's main difference to its unsupervised counterpart is the presence of a "training" set of data used to prepare an algorithm before it is unleashed on a "live" data set.
Let's explore this with a simple example
Remember Michael, the medical researcher?
He now needs a set of patients to test a new treatment on. To find the right patients for the test, he uses a smaller training set of data (in which he has already identified the correct patients for his test) and creates an algorithm that can pick these candidates out based on the data held on them -- a combination of age, weight, addictions, previous ailments, genetic dispositions, and existing medication needs.
This is possible because the data set already contains all of these classifications. If it didn't, he'd need to use unsupervised learning to identify the inherent classifications in the data.
Once he is happy with the results returned from the training data set, he can unleash it on the wider set of patients, as well as applying it to the data from any patients to be captured in the future -- and go about trying to improve their lives.
We're unearthing more insight from the Big Data Show earlier this year -- today featuring Amanda Kahlow, CEO & Founder at 6Sense Insights Inc.
Amanda's approach to big data veers away from the vendor trap of getting overly invested in the storage, processing, and querying steps. She's more keen for businesses to bring together their interactive channels (and maybe some third party data) to see who is going to buy, when, and how much.
Amanda's pragmatic message sets a great goal for businesses looking to leverage their big data -- understand your customers before they have to tell you who they are.
Unsupervised learning allows us to apply labels to data that was previously undefined.
Let's explore this with an example
The last time we saw Tobias, he was using machine learning on a suggestion engine to get more products sold based on which films his customers were viewing. He also uses machine learning -- more specifically, unsupervised learning -- in his marketing campaigns. In this simple example, he'll send two versions of his newsletter: one featuring full-price blockbuster Hollywood films and one featuring sale-price world cinema.
It would take him months to sort through his customer list manually and determine who should get which version. To divide his customer data quickly into two coherent sets, he can use unsupervised learning algorithms, which will define the two groups for him by sorting them into clusters. This will allow him to increase the chances of his newsletters finding a receptive audience.
Recently, we caught up with Ben Pottier, Search Technology Specialist at Funnelback UK, to pick his brain on how SMEs can leverage big data.
He acknowledges that it's easy for smaller organizations to feel isolated from real big data benefits by the jargon and hype currently in circulation. However, he also maintains that SMEs are almost in a better position to leverage big data technologies, because of the ability to push big data technologies to grow their business.
He concludes "don't do big data with a big bang approach." Are you an SME leveraging big data, or looking to do so? Do you agree with Ben's advice? Let us know below.
Data Munging is boring but necessary, as it involves getting raw data ready so that the exciting work of analysis can be done.
Let's look at this with an example
Sara's hard at work on data from her local schools, but oh boy, what a mess! Attendance registers are pretty clean, but each school uses different formatting for keeping track of grades and discipline, some keep dates in different formats -- not to mention all the unstructured data sitting there in the form of comments and social media interactions.
Before Sara can get anywhere with this, she needs to do some serious munging, or wrangling. That means getting this information to match up with each other -- so she'll need to extract all of this raw data and run algorithms on it to match up with her preferred columns and rows -- and depositing the finished dataset in her data store so she can start running queries.
Machine Learning is a form of artificial intelligence that can be used to automate a lot of big data processes.
Here's an example
By using machine learning technology, customers to Tobias's online movie store get a more personalized, evolving service. Based on pages and products viewed, a customer to the site is presented with potential films he or she might like to purchase. This is based on the machine learning engine spotting correlations in the data of customers with similar demographics who have viewed similar pages, and recommending potential purchases from their purchase history.
As this is an automated system that "learns," Tobias doesn't need to be constantly tweaking the algorithms, and the machine learning tool continues to learn, so when a new natural purchasing trend emerges among customers, it makes recommendations based on having recognized these new patterns.
Sentiment analysis is one way data miners can take the legwork out of understanding the meanings and feelings behind statements made in social media and other forums.
Let's take a look at how it works with an example.
Fatima works on the marketing team for a company developing casual games. It launched its flagship game, Disgruntled Dogs, seven days ago -- and Fatima wants to know how the game has been received.
The sales team can pull sales data, which is a good indicator of success, but analyzing conversations will give Fatima a more nuanced idea of what people do and don't like. Gathering together all mentions of her company, the game's title, and mentions of a few key characters and elements of the game results in a pool of over 1,000,000 mentions -- in the first week. This is a well talked-about game!
The technology Fatima has chosen is effective but relatively simple. It aims to "read" the words and the way they are used, based on a set of semantic rules, to determine the feelings expressed -- in this case via the polarities "Positive" or "Negative."
Oh dear, it seems people have an overly negative view of Disgruntled Dogs. Still, it's better that Fatima can find this out quickly, and it gives her company the chance to alter the way the game works or change messaging to make sure this negative sentiment doesn't result in poor sales.


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Alice Allegra Englert was born in New Zealand. She made her screen debut in the short films Listen (2001) by Paula Maling and The Water Diary (2006), written and directed by Englert's mother, Academy Award-winner Jane Campion. Her father is film-maker Colin Englert and she has a young half-brother named Gabriel.
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US 5230794 A Abstract The invention relates to a three phase separator which comprises a compartment for the substantial separation of the gas-phase, this compartment being equipped with at least one partition which is applied for an internal gaslift circulation.
Claims(10) 1. A fluidized bed apparatus for the anaerobic treatment of a waste water liquid phase wherein a gas phase is generated, comprising:
a reactor for containing a solid phase comprising a biomass, the reactor having a bottom, a top, a height H between the bottom and the top and an average cross-sectional diameter D; a waste water liquid phase introduction device for introducing waste water liquid at the bottom of the reactor; and a three-phase separator situated in the top of the reactor for separating the gas phase from the liquid phase, now treated, and from the biomass, and for returning the biomass to the reactor, the three-phase separator comprising: a settling compartment having an inlet and outlet for treated liquid phase from which the gas phase and biomass have been substantially removed, a plurality of parallel partitions connected to the settling compartment and inclined to both the vertical and the horizontal for creating an internal gaslift circulation of biomass and treated liquid phase in the separator, the parallel partitions having an inlet for the biomass and treated liquid phase that is separated from the gas phase and flows between the partitions to an outlet from the gas phase and flows between the partitions to an outlet from said parallel partitions, the parallel partitions inlet being above the parallel partitions outlet, and the outlet from the parallel partitions being in open communication with the inlet to the settling compartment for the flow of treated liquid phase into the settling compartment, a deflector inclined to the vertical and the horizontal, said deflector being connected to the settling means and having a major surface extending below and across the inlet to the settling compartment and below and across the outlet from the parallel partitions to provide an outlet from the separator for return of the biomass from the separator to the reactor, the outlet for the biomass being spaced apart from the inlet to the parallel partitions, the inclined deflector and the parallel partitions being at opposite inclined angles with respect to each other, whereby treated liquid phase flows into the settling compartment and biomass is separated from the treated liquid phase and flows back to the reactor with the aid of the gaslift circulation. 2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the biomass is a granular sludge.
3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the parallel partitions promote granular development of the sludge thereby creating, increasing or maintaining the amount of the granular sludge present in the apparatus.
4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the parallel partitions are oriented at an angle to the inclined deflector.
5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the ratio of H/D is about 2 to about 40.
6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the ratio of H/D is about 2 to about 10.
7. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the height of the reactor is about 6 to 25 meters.
8. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the height of the reactor is about 10 to 20 meters.
9. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein a gas collection space is located above the settling compartment in the top of the reactor.
10. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the waste water introduction device comprises at least one liquid-entrance pipe having an outlet end, the outlet end being located near the bottom of the reactor and having an outlet velocity of 0.5-4 meters/second.
Description This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/254,053, filed Oct. 6, 1988, abandoned. The invention relates to anaerobic waste water purification using an improved fluidized-bed process and apparatus. Since the early seventies anaerobic treatment of industrial waste-water has gained considerably in importance resulting in the development of improved reactors with high biomass concentration. Compared to other high rate anaerobic reactors (filter reactors, UASB reactors as major available representatives), the fluidized bed system has the main potential advantages of higher purification capacity, no clogging in the reactor (as in filters), no problem of sludge retention (as in UASB system if granular sludge is not obtained) and small volume and area requirements. The relatively high upward liquid velocity prevents clogging and moreover guarantees a good contact between influent and the biomass attached to the carrier. The vertical construction and the relatively small size of the fluidized bed reactors makes a totally closed construction possible preventing emission of malodeurs. Optionally the use of (expensive) corrosion resistant materials is possible. However, also disadvantages of anaerobic fluidized bed reactors are known which are related to biolayer growth and subsequent control thereof. At the bottom of the reactors often only bare carrier particles are present, which implies that part of the reactor has no purification activity. Operational problems e.g. concerning the relatively long start-up times are caused by starting up with bare carrier particles, which may need a period of 2-4 months to become overgrown. For example, in the methanogenic phase, under full scale conditions after inoculation with suitable biomass the growing phase will take between 4 and 12 weeks. In this period of time the stability of the system is very sensible to, for example, peak loads. If the specific load is expressed as kg COD/kg VSS/day, then the load on the still small amounts of biomass in the reactor will be too large, this may result in considerable losses of biomass. A short-duration incident may result in an almost complete new start-up of the system. Moreover, in connection with a preferred short residence time (see for example European Patent Application EP-A-28846) during the start-up a pH control may be necessary. Another source of inconvenience is that during standstill of the reactor the liquid distributor may clog due to the settled carrier material at the bottom of the reactor. Another type of anaerobic process, the UASB-systems (Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Bed) is described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,253,956. Such a process is well-known and often used in practice. On full scale a short and reproducible start up is possible, when sufficient granular sludge is added before the starting up period under exactly predescribed conditions. The granular sludge may be obtained from other UASB-systems. This type of granular sludge consists of granules of active material, which are formed by nature in the UASB-reactor. These granules remain active for years, may be removed from the reactor and may be stored, which makes these granules very suited for use as inoculation material for new plants, or for the re-starting of existing plants after incidents. The UASB-system is also very suited for seasonal plants (for example beet-sugar mills), in which the process is interrupted for months while a fast re-starting up is essential. However the UASB-reactors have some disadvantages as well, for example, the liquid velocity 1-2 m/h) is insufficient to prevent the (partial) sedimentation of inert sediments in the reactor. To prevent this in several cases the waste water has to be treated first in a primary settler to separate this inert sediment. The UASB-reactors are rather sensible to air-inlet in the upper part, due to their construction, which may result in corrosion. Sometimes the emission of bad-smelling gases may take place due to their escape from the upper part. The overpressure on the upper part must be kept low which makes the transport of the corrosive biogas generally impossible without a compressor. Further the area needed for the implementation of the apparatus, certainly when a primary settler is needed, is rather large and not always available close by the waste-water source. For low strength waste waters a modified UASB reactor has been designed, the so-called EGSB (Expanded Granular Sludge Bed) reactor (see G. Lettinga and L.H. Pol, Wat. Sci. Tech. vol. 18, no. 12 (1986) pp. 99-108). When low strength waste water is fed to a UASB reactor the gas production will be too low, the mixing due to this gas formed inside this reactor is insufficient, and the reactor does not function properly. In order to overcome this problem a significantly higher upward liquid velocity is applied in the EGSB system, which results in a distinct sludge bed expansion and consequently in a better sludge water contact and therefore a better biomass use. Commonly these higher upward velocities are obtained by recirculation of the effluent. However, the EGSB-concept is only suitable for treating relatively cold and very low strength waste water. When high strength waste water is fed to an EGSB-system the large amounts of gas formed in the reactor will disturb the purification process. Part of the sludge particles will then be washed out of the reactor together with the suspended solids of the influent. In a conventional settler design these removed sludge particles are difficult to separate from the suspended solids, resulting in a loss of active biomass. Therefore an EGSB reactor will not function under conditions of a high strength waste water supply and therefore normal UASB reactors are preferred under these conditions. In this article of G. Lettinga and L.H. Pol no sludge growth is mentioned. It is an object of the invention to provide a process in which the advantages of the fluidized-bed process and the UASB-process into an improved fluidized-bed process are combined and results in an improved fluidized-bed process. It is a further object of the invention to provide an improved fluidized-bed process which may be carried out in an improved apparatus which is very suitable for such kinds of process. In this apparatus not only the process of the present invention may be performed, but other fluidized-bed processes (using a carrier material) may be advantageously carried out as well. FIG. 1 schematically shows the three phase separator as disclosed in European patent application EP-A90450. FIGS. 2-4 schematically represent embodiments of the invention and the horizontal cross-sections thereof illustrating the collection of part of the biogas, formed in the reactor. FIG. 5 schematically shows the use of two parallel plates in the three-phase separator. FIG. 6 schematically shows the use of several parallel plates in the three-phase separator. FIG. 7 shows two embodiments of the construction of the liquid distribution device and a horizontal cross-section thereof. FIG. 8 shows a laboratory fluidized-bed reactor in which sludge granules can be tested. FIG. 9 schematically shows the three-phase separator which is provided with several parallel partitions. This separator is tested on pilot-plant scale. UASB-reactors commonly have a liquid residence time of 4-20 hours. Granular sludge in UASB-reactors is exposed to superficial liquid velocities of 1-2 m/h and to superficial gas velocities (at the upper part of the reactor) of 1-2 m/h. Surprisingly it has been found that this type of granular sludge is extremely suitable as active material in a fluidized bed process with liquid residence times of 0,5-4 h superficial liquid velocities of even 4-25 m/h, preferably 6-20 m/h and superficial gas velocities of even 4-15 m/h without being damaged. After extensive research and experimentation it has surprisingly been found that granular sludge not only keeps its granular structure and biological activity after being properly introduced into the fluidized-bed reactor, the granular sludge accommodates to the much more turbulent fluidized-bed conditions as well. Even the amount of granular sludge in the reactor increases in time. This phenomenon is found in acidification as well as in methane formation reactors. This improved fluidized bed process has the benefits of the fluidized bed process as well as of the UASB process, but does not possess the disadvantages of the processes in question. The results of the improved process from laboratory scale, pilot plant scale and full scale installations clearly show the benefits of this invention, not only during the starting-up period, but also under steady-state conditions. The benefits of the process of the present invention over the EGSB process can be found by comparing the present process with the EGSB process as described by A. W. A. de Man et al. (Proc. 5th Int. Symp. on Anaerobic Digestion, Bologna, Italy, 22-26 May, 1988, p. 197 ff.), which only became public after the priority date of the present invention. As described hereinbefore the EGSB is not suitable for high strength waste waters. The high superficial velocity in the reactor is obtained by a high recirculation of the effluent. The capacity of the reactor in consequence thereof is low. Low strength waste waters result in low gas production in the reactor, and therefore relatively gentle conditions in relation to turbulence are present. The insight that the loss of active sludge particles has to be prevented in processes with high gas and liquid velocities, not by choosing gentle conditions inside the (EGSB) reactor, but by choosing an efficient and selective return of the sludge particles to the reactor, forms the basis of the present invention. Such a return of the sludge particles can be obtained using different separation techniques, e.g. settlers placed on top of the reactor or settlers situated elsewhere. By choosing the proper conditions in such a separator, sludge particles are separated from the effluent containing suspended solids. In this way it becomes possible to purify waste waters which are totally unsuitable for EGSB processes. In Table 1 some of the typical characteristics of the EGSB and the present process (UFB) are compared in order to show the benefits of the present invention. TABLE 1______________________________________ UFB EGSB (present process)______________________________________Height of the reactor (m) 5-10 10-25Gas production due to converted <1 1.5-15COD (m.sup.3 gas/m.sup.2 reactorcross section.d)COD load (kg COD/m.sup.3 reactor.d) 1-5 10-80Recirculation ratio* 5-10 0-4Superficial liquid velocity (m/h) 6-8 5-20______________________________________ *recirculation ratio = ratio between recirculated effluent of the reactor and the influent of the reactor. The starting up of the process of the invention can be accelerated by introducing sludge from, for example, a UASB reactor or sludge from another reactor wherein the process according to the invention is carried out. Starting up without inoculation of a substantial amount of sludge is possible, however it will take considerable time before a sufficient amount of granular sludge is present. An already operational fluidized bed process using carrier material may be converted into the present process by choosing the right operational conditions. In this way it becomes possible to switch gradually from the conventional process to the present process. In an embodiment of the invention granular sludge as well as sludge on carrier is present. This embodiment can be advantageously applied in already existing apparatus. The granules of the present fluidized process are able to withstand the high turbulent conditions in the reactors. They show also other excellent qualities, the granules remain active for years and may be used for the starting up of other fluidized processes. Moreover they may be advantageously applied in the purification of waste waters of seasonal plants. The terminal falling velocity of the sludge granules (which is a measure for the settlement properties) is higher or at least equal to the sludge obtained from UASB reactors. The activity of the sludge is at least as high as or often higher than the sludge of a UASB reactor. It has been surprisingly found that the qualities of the sludge ar dependent on the construction of the reactor and the three-phase separator, which will be explained in more detail hereinbelow. The improved fluidized bed process may be carried out in an unmodified fluidized-bed reactor, designed for purification processes using biomass attached to carrier, but the process of the invention is advantageously carried out in an improved fluidized-bed reactor, which is described hereinafter in detail. Experiments on full scale have shown that with the unmodified fluidized-bed reactors sub-optimal results are obtained which are related to the construction of the liquid distribution device and the three-phase separator on top of the reactor. The energy dissipation as a result of the liquid leaving the distribution device (5-10 m/s) is high and to such an extent that granular sludge may be disintegrated by the force of the liquid spouts. The three-phase separator described in European patent application EP-A-90450 functions well during relatively low liquid and gas load conditions, but at high loads (a fraction of) gas will often enter the settling compartment. This will disturb the settling process and result in a loss of overgrown or bare carrier particles, or natural granules. Furthermore, the present invention provides improvements in relation to the construction of the liquid distribution device, to make the fluidized-bed process more suitable for the use of granular sludge. Moreover the construction of the 3-phase separator is improved, resulting in a reduced loss of overgrown or bare carrier particles, and in the case of the preferred embodiment of the invention even in a much lesser loss of granular sludge. By doing so a higher concentration of active biomass in the reactor can be maintained, even at high gas and liquid velocities. This improvement will be demonstrated on the basis of a known circular fluidized-bed reactor (1) which is shown in FIG. 1. Assuming a homogeneous distribution of the rising gas bubbles over the reactor cross-section, about 60% of the gas bubbles, formed in the compartment below the throat (2), will be concentrated to form a cylindrical bubble curtain (3). As a result of the sideward movement caused by the deflection of the upward flow of liquid into the settler (4) at the throat, this bubble curtain is not stable. The radial overlap between gas collecting hood (5) and throat (2) is insufficient to lead away all gas bubbles via the hood at any moment. Bubbles entering the settler (4) then disturb the sedimentation process. In reactors with only a relatively low gasflow in the upper part of the reactor this problem plays an insignificant role. In U.S. Pat. No. 4,609,460 an apparatus is disclosed which collect a considerable portion of the gas developed by fermentation in an UASB reactor, before this reaches the upper part of the reactor. The construction is rather complicated and exists of a lot of collecting systems just above each other throughout the reactor, in connection with one or more downpipes. In such a system the liquid flows are difficult or almost impossible to control, even for UASB-processes. In fluidized-bed systems they cannot be used at all. In U.S. Pat. No. 4,622,147 an apparatus for a UASB-process is disclosed with consists of three levels of gas-collection hoods. Just as in U.S. Pat. No. 4,609,460 this design is directed to a UASB reactor with low liquid and gas velocities. Not only does this construction not solve the above mentioned problem concerning the bubble curtain which will occur when applied in a fluidized-bed reactor, but this phase separation construction occupies in comparison with the reactor volume a considerable part of the reactor. Another solution for this problem which would seem to be obvious, is enlarging the overlap between the throat and gas collection hood. However it was found that the liquid velocity increased in the throat of the reactor which made the return of settled biomassparticles out of the settler more difficult. Also the larger diameter will lead to a larger hood, which is more difficult to construct. Advantageously it was found that the bubble curtain which is concentrated in the throat of the reactor can be separated from the flowing liquid. When the collected gasbubbles are sent directly to the gascollection space the problem of the bad functioning of the settler is solved, even for extreme high gas and/or liquid velocities in the reactor. This special biogas collection device may be mounted not only in new fluidized-bed reactors, but also existing fluidized-bed reactors may be supplemented with the apparatus of the invention. Several embodiments of this separate biogas outlet are shown in FIGS. 2, 3, 4 and 5. Partition (6) collects the gasbubbles which without this partition would form the bubble curtain. Via tubes (7) or compartments (7) the collected gas is led directly to the gas collection space (9) or to a collection tube (8) (see FIG. 4) which is connected with the gas collection space. In a commercial full-scale circular reactor the diameter of the partition (6) may be around 0.5-10 meter and for example in case of a diameter of the reactor of 3 meter, the height of this partition may suitably be 30-80 cm. It will be appreciated that all the tubes have to be dimensioned in such a way that they will conduct the gases into the gas collection space and amply above the liquid level in order to prevent the occurrence of an airlift circulation flow in the settler. The partitions (6) will collect 30-80% of the gas leaving the reactor, more preferably 50-80% of this gas. Although circular reactors are preferred, square, rectangular or other shaped reactors are included in the scope of the present invention. The fluidized bed reactor will conveniently have a height of at least 6 m, preferably at least 10 m. The ratio H/D will conveniently be 2-40, preferably 2-10 (H=height of the reactor, D=diameter or average cross-sectional dimension of the reactor). Furthermore the present invention provides the use of parallel plates in the three-phase separator, which stimulates a better coagulation and growth of small solid particles to larger granules. In FIG. 5 and 6 two embodiments of such constructions are given. In U.S. Pat. No. 4,253,956 a UASB apparatus is shown with interrupted inclined walls of the settler to form such inlet openings. The wall parts thus formed are staggered at the inlet opening to screen them from rising gas so that this gas cannot enter the settling compartment. An outlet opening for the settler at the lower end of the inclined walls makes a return of granules possible. Because of the high liquid and gas velocities it is surprising that this principle can be used in a fluidized-bed. By bypassing a substantial part of the gas formed in the reaction space it becomes possible to apply such a principle in a fluidized-bed process (in combination with the gas-collection device). FIG. 5 shows such a partition (10) mounted in the settler. Around this partition a circulation of liquid takes place, which results in a better return of the settled particles from the settler into the reactor and an improved gas/liquid separation around the upper part of this partition (10). This partition may have a conical shape when a circular three phase separator is used. Moreover rising biogas that will come under this partition, will be collected and will flow upwards, thereby creating an gaslift circulation around this partition because of the difference of the density on both sides of this partition. In FIG. 6 partitions 10A and 10B are mounted as well which give rise to an even better functioning of the three-phase separator. The number of partitions depends on the volumes of liquid to be treated and technical design dimensions. However it may be economically more attractive to incorporate just one partition (10). It has been surprisingly found that gaslift circulation contributes to the good and reliable operation of the reactor. In consequence of this circulation all liquid that will leave the settler, will circulate about 5-20 times and pass through upward and downward movements. The mean residence time of the particles in this zone increases and the opportunity of collisions will increase as well. The small particles (granules) may be grown together by collisions or coagulation and become larger particles. In this way the loss of active biomass is reduced and the speed of the formation of granular, well-settable sludge increases substantially. Therefore it is possible to separate the small active particles, which grow together, from the suspended solids, which are not active in the purification process. The conversion of smaller sludge particles into granular sludge is improved as a result of the design of the three-phase separator. It will be appreciated that this makes a fast start-up of the reactor, in comparison with the fluidized-bed system, possible even if only a moderate quantity of inoculation sludge is present. In case that the cross-section of the 3-phase separator is chosen to be circular, the partitions (5) and (10) are preferably truncated cones. The liquid distribution device as described in EP-A-90450 is designed for equal distribution of liquid into a bed of bare carrier-particles (e.g. sand). Due to the rather heavy mass of solids, and the need to prevent sticking together (then forming stagnant zones), the liquid flow rate through the spouts must be high (5-10 m/s) and to such an extent that granular sludge may be desintegrated. The present invention provides an improvement in relation with the construction of the liquid distribution device, to make the fluidized-bed reactor more suitable for the use of granular sludge (see FIG. 7). Natural granules have nearly no tendency to stick together when the liquid flow (when being stagnant) is interrupted. Surprisingly even a rather thick layer (several meters) of granular sludge permits a simple and easy start up of the fluidisation process by supplying the liquid at a few points in the lower part of the bed. Mixing, fluidisation and homogenisation of the bed takes place at superficial (upflow) velocities of 6-10 m/h. The active, granular sludge starts gas production directly in the lowest parts of the reactor, which stimulates also the mixing process. One aspect of the present invention of which some examples are given in FIG. 7 consists of liquid-entrance pipes which are mounted in the reactor at several possible directions. There is no need for special outlet-nozzles that create a high local velocity. Normal outlet-velocity is 0.5-4 m/s, preferably 1-2 m/s. The liquid waste may therefore be fed to the fermentation zone through a plurality of mutually spaced inlets and optionally periodically interrupting or varying the flow of liquid waste through each inlet. For example the liquid waste may be supplied successively through each inlet for a certain period of time. Both rectangular and circular reactors may be used with flat or conical bottoms. On top of a laboratory scale fluidized-bed reactor (1) of 4 l and a diameter of 5.0 cm, a three-phase separator with a capacity of 2 l was situated (see FIG. 8). The fluidized-bed was inoculated with 2 l of biomass granules originating from a UASB reactor, containing 150 g SS (suspended solids) or 120 g VSS (volatile suspended solids). The superficial liquid velocity in the column was maintained during the experiment at 8.8 m/h. The liquid leaving the reactor via pipe (11) was partly recirculated (17.0 l/h) via pipe (13), the remaining part was discharged via pipe (14). Raw waste water (15) was introduced (2.1 l/h) together with the recirculated part of the effluent. The gas formed was collected in chamber (9) and discharged via pipe (12). A typical waste water containing 2000 mg/l of acetic acid and 480 mg/l of ethanol was purified in the fluidized bed reactor. Nutrients were added to stimulate the biomass growth. During a period of 3 months including the starting up period, the average load was 36.6 kg COD/m.sup.3 reaction volume per day and the conversion-efficiency gave CODt=92.4%. Average production is 45.7 l/d of biogas (CODt=total Chemical Oxygen Demand). The superficial gas velocity is calculated to be 0.97 m/h in the upper part of the reactor. The mean hydraulic residence time in the reactor was 2 h, the contact time in the active fluidized-bed section was 6 minutes. At the end of the experiment 156 g SS, corresponding to 135 g VSS was present, corresponding to an expanded volume of 2.11 l. The experiment proved that the sludge granules remain intact, and even show a nett increase of biomass (15 g VSS) under these conditions. The process operates very stably with high efficiency. Industrial waste water originating from the chemical and fermentation plants of Gist-brocades, Delft, was purified in a pilot scale process. The waste water was acidified in a continuous flow stirred tank reactor: the hydraulic retention time is 8-12 hours. The effluent of this reactor is fed to a pilot-scale fluidized bed reactor. The influent of the fluidized bed reactor contains 1800-4500 mg/l COD.sub.t, 350-500 mg/l sulphates and 0.5-1.0 g/l inert-SS. On an average this influent is acidified for 50%-80%, calculated for fatty acid contribution in the dissolved COD. A cylindrical fluidized bed reactor was used as shown in FIG. 1. The height of the reactor (without the three-phase separator) was 19.45 m, the diameter 0.495 m resulting in a useful volume of 3.7 m.sup.3. The smallest cross-section area near the throat (2) was 0.081 m.sup.2, the corresponding cross-sectional area of the gas collecting hood at the lowest end was 0.108 m.sup.2, the angle of the cover hood part was 55 150 kg DS (dry solids) of granular anaerobic sludge was added to the reactor. The sludge originated from an anaerobic UASB-reactor which was used to purify waste water of a sugar mill. The content of organic material of the sludge was 82%, corresponding at the reactor start up with 120 kg VSS. The sludge granules had an average dimension of 2-3 mm. At the start of the test the height of the expanded granular sludge bed in the reactor was 7.7 m. The acidified waste water together with the recirculated part of the effluent was introduced at the bottom of the reactor. The pH of the acidified waste water was 6.06-6.7 and the pH of the recirculated liquid was 7.2-7.5. 1.40 m.sup.3 /h liquid was introduced into the reactor, corresponding with a superficial liquid velocity of 7.4 m/h. The percentage of acidified waste water of the introduced liquid was increased stepwise; 300 l/h on day 1 till 1000 l/h on day 5 acidified waste water was fed to the reactor. On day 5 the total amount of liquid introduced was increased to 1.80 m.sup.3 /h, corresponding with a superficial liquid velocity of 9.5 m/h. The step wise increasing of the load was carried out on the basis of the fatty acid content in the effluent, which was kept less than 100 mg/l. In Table 2 the quantities of acidified waste water and total quantities waste water are given, and the superficial liquid velocities. TABLE 2__________________________________________________________________________ acidified waste recirculated total liquid superficial hydraulic water introduced waste water introduced liquid velocity residenceday (m.sup.3 /h) (m.sup.3 /h) (m.sup.3 /h) (m/h) time (h)__________________________________________________________________________ 1 0.3 1.1 1.4 7.4 12.3 5 1.0 0.8 1.8 9.5 3.7 8 1.3 0.5 1.8 9.5 2.926 1.5 0.65 2.15 11.4 2.534 1.7 0.75 2.45 12.9 2.239 2.1 0.35 2.45 12.9 1.7543 2.5 0.4 2.9 15.3 1.48__________________________________________________________________________ During the test which lasted 50 days the temperature of the reactor was 30-34 The efficacy of the reactor remained during the period stabile, the efficiency of the removal of fatty acids was all the time≧90%. During the test the height of the expanded granular sludge bed was frequently measured. At the end of the test the height of the granular sludge bed was 4.6 m. The granules were well-settable and had an average dimension of 2-3 mm. The biogas production flow rate average was 40 m.sup.3 /day, corresponding with 20 kg COD/m.sup.3.day conversion and a superficial gas velocity of 8.5 m/h in the top of the reactor. At peakloads the gasflow rate even was about 14.5 m/h. Because inoculation sludge originating from an anaerobic UASB-reactor was added, the sludge in the beginning of the experiment consisted in part of small particles which were at least partly washed away. This resulted in a loss of granular sludge at the beginning of the experiment. After this period the amount of granular sludge stabilized. After the test about 84 kg (total DS) of granular sludge was present with an organic material content of 85% corresponding with about 71 kg VSS. The test demonstrates that most granules remain intact, even at the high biogas and liquid flow rates and, accommodate rapidly to the variable influent-qualities. The granules became a more compact shape during the test; the specific activity of the biomass has a mean value of about 0.8 kg COD/kg. VSS per day (at peak loads=1.6). On top of the circular fluidized bed reactor of Example 2 (height 19.45 m and a diameter of 0.495 m) a three-phase separator according to FIG. 9 was mounted. This three-phase separator consists of a rectangular compartment (16) of which one side has a semi-circular form (17). The underside of this compartment is provided with an adaptor (18) which joins a cylinder (21) having a diameter of 0.495 m, which is connected with the reactor. Partition (6) will collect about half of the biogas formed in the reactor, performing the same function as described for the devices (6) in FIGS. 2, 3, 4 and 5. This collected biogas is led through tube (7) directly to the gas collection compartment (9). Beneath the gas collection hood (5), four partitions (10) are mounted. The total volume of the three-phase separator was about 0.75 m.sup.3. After having passed the airlift-circulation-flow the liquid will enter the settling compartment (4). The effluent leaves the reactor, after passing weir (19) (overflow), through outlets (20). The collected gas is removed via outlet (21). In FIG. 9 two liquid outlets (20) are shown. Waste water originating from Gist-brocades, Delft (see Example 2) was purified in the fluidized bed reactor. Identically to Example 2 this waste water was first acidified. In the beginning of this test the reactor was filled with 84 kg granular anaerobic sludge (=71 kg VSS), which was present at the end of the experiment described in Example 2. In the period of 12 days between the tests of Examples 2 and 3, the sludge was kept in the reactor. This stop did not influence the behaviour or activity of the sludge. On day 1 500 l/h acidified waste water together with 2.2 m.sup.3 /h recirculated liquid was introduced into the reactor, corresponding with a superficial liquid velocity of 14 m/h. On the next days the quantity of acidified waste water was increased, meanwhile keeping the total quantity introduced liquid into the reactor constant. Therefore on day 2: 1000 l/h; on day 3: 1500 l/h; on day 4: 2000 l/h; and from day 8: 2500 l/h of acidified waste water was fed. During this period of time the biogas production increased from about 8 m.sup.3 /day till maximal 75 m.sup.3 /day (peak load). The fatty acids-COD content in the purified waste water was always below 150 mg/l. This clearly demonstrates that the purification was substantially complete. The gross load, calculated on basis of the useful volume of the reactor, varied between 30 and 95 kg COD/m.sup.3.day corresponding with a conversion of 12-40 kg COD/m.sup.3.day. After 70 days of continuous operation these experiments were stopped; after degassing the amount of granular anaerobic sludge was 103 kg and the amount of granular biomass was estimated to be 88 kg VSS. The tested 3-phase separator demonstrates a substantially positive influence on the growth of anaerobic (methanogenic) biomass into granules, even at high liquid and biogas-velocities (liquid V.sub.sup ≃14 m/h, biogas V.sub.max in top of reactor≃16 m/h). The circular fluidized bed reactor as used in Example 3 (with three phase separator according to FIG. 9) was used to study sludge growth and granulation. Waste water originating from Gist-brocades, Delft (see Example 2) was purified in the fluidized bed reactor. Identically to Example 2 this waste water was first acidified (Hydraulic Retention Time=3-4 hours). Contrary to the other experiments the pilot plant would be started with a rather small amount of granular sludge. An increase in sludge bed height, combined with measurements on amount of biomass (TS, VSS) and amount of sludge particles should prove net sludge growth and formation of new sludge particules (=granulation). Moreover sludge activity tests should prove the presence of active biomass. The reactor was started with 1.5 m sludge bed height (14 kg VSS, 70% VSS, 20 kg TS). The recirculation flow (raw influent+recycled effluent) was 14.4 m.sup.3 /day during the total experiment, resulting in a superficial upflow velocity of 5 m/h. The raw waste water flow was slightly increased from 200 l/h at the start to 600 l/h after 2 weeks. This did result in a COD loading rate of 60-80 kg COD/day (=16-22 kg COD m.sup.3 /day). The biogas production varied between 8-14 m.sup.3 /day resulting in a superficial gas velocity of approximately 2-3 m/h. The COD purification efficiency was 55-60%. After three months the sludge bed height had increased from 1.5 m to 4.8 m. The total amount of sludge increased from 20 kg TS to 49 kg TS, while the amount of organic sludge increased from 14 kg VSS to 40 kg VSS. The sludge activity at the start was 0.9 kg COD/kg VSS.day and 1.2 kg COD/kg VSS.day at the end of the 3 months experiment. Measurements on individual sludge particles showed a 190% increase in the amount of granules. The results of this experiment show clearly that with the settler device according to the invention granulation and net sludge growth is obtained. Besides it is shown that a sludge with a high content of active biomass is found indicating that non valuable suspended solids are not retained in the reactor. This example describes a full-scale 2-step anaerobic treatment of waste water originating from a yeast producing factory. This waste water was a mixture of waste water, distillate of an evaporator and filtrate of the yeast filters. The average influent contains: 2500-4000 mg/l COD, 300-600 mg/l SO.sub.4.sup.2 - and 300-600 mg/l suspended solids. The three fractions were buffered and mixed in two tanks connected in series, each having a volume of 100 m.sup.3. The temperature in the buffer tanks was about 37 5-7 h the waste water was partly acidified, about 60-90% of the biodegradable COD was acidified. The two reactors, connected in series, are identical to each other; their three phase separator construction is shown in FIG. 1. The reactor is described as well in European Patent Application 0090450 (see FIGS. 2, 7 and 8). The height of the reactor is 12.3 m (without three-phase separator), the diameter of the reactor is 3.0 m, the diameter of the three-phase separator is 4.0 m. The useful volume of the reactor is 80 m.sup.3. The ratio between the parts of the three-phase separator is substantially the same as the ratios of the corresponding parts of Example 1. The waste water to be purified was introduced via 5 horizontal distribution pipes, provided with downwardly directed liquid entrance nozzles. At the beginning of the test in the first reactor (R-1) 5000 kg sand and in the second reactor (R-2) 13500 kg sand was present as carrier material. This carrier material had an average diameter of 0.2-0.4 mm and a bulk density of 2700 kg/m.sup.3. The sand was overgrown with biomass which was in principle capable of purifying the waste water. In the first reactor mainly the acidification and in the second reactor mainly the methane-fermentation took place. However due to operational problems, as described before, in the months preceding the test a substantial amount of overgrown sand was washed away, which caused at the same time loss of a considerable quantity of biomass. The operation of the system was therefore unstable, keeping in mind that the initial load of both reactors was 40000 kg sand. At day 1 the operational conditions were changed in such a way that the formation of the granular sludge according to the invention was stimulated whereby sand was not used as carrier anymore. This has been achieved by taking away the remaining sand stepwise and decreasing the amount of total liquid introduced of 100 m.sup.3 /h to about 65-70 m.sup.3 /h, corresponding with the decrease of the superficial liquid velocity of 14 m/h to 9 m/h. The amount of acidified waste water introduced at the beginning of the experiment was 20 m.sup.3 /h. This quantity was increased to 40 m.sup.3 /h at day 76. The total amount of liquid introduced into the reactor was maintained constant by decreasing the quantity of recirculated liquid. At day 1 the fatty acid conversion was incomplete although a moderate load was applied: the effluent of the R-1 (first reactor) contained 1900 mg/l and R-2 (second reactor) 600 mg/l (fatty acid efficiency is 67% in R-2). During the test which lasted 7 months, the quantity of granular sludge gradually increased in both reactors. During this whole period the conversion efficiency increased to the maximum fatty acids conversion, and the influent load could be increased till all the waste water was treated. The process showed a stable behaviour and the problems met during the operation with sand as carrier, disappeared by applying the process of the invention. Table 3 shows the results during the testrun. TABLE 3__________________________________________________________________________ Reactor 1 Reactor 2influent biomass biomass efficiency R-2 flow sand granules sand granules load R-2 COD fatty acidsday (m.sup.3) (kg) (kg VSS) (kg) (kg VSS) (kg COD/m.sup.3) (%) (%)__________________________________________________________________________ 1 24 5000 130 13500 70 16.5 50 67 41 30 4000 190 13000 160 14.5 74 78 76 40 360 830 18.5 62 80127 40 1000 1370 8000 730 17 62 79182 41 200 1500 4000 1500 20 65 82200 41 200 2000 4000 2000 20 65 82__________________________________________________________________________ *kg VSS = kg volatile suspended solids. The biomass quantity is calculated on basis of 4 samples taken at different heights from the cylindrical reactor. The activity of the granular sludge, measured under substrate saturated conditions is shown in Table 4. TABLE 4__________________________________________________________________________ activity of the activity of the activity of granular sludge granular sludge in R-1 granular sludge in R-2 washed out with the effluentday (kg COD/kg VSS (kg COD/kg VSS (kg COD/kg VSS __________________________________________________________________________ 73 0.8 1.98 2.25185 0.85 1.63 1.42__________________________________________________________________________ The activity of the granules originating from reactor 1 is lower than those from reactor 2 because in reactor 1 acidification as well as methane-forming bacteria are present. The activity of the granular sludge of reactor 2 is high compared to usual values in anaerobic systems (such as UASB-reactors) of 0.4-0.8 kg COD/kg VSS.day. Due to the imperfect three-phase separator part of the sludge is washed out with the effluent. The granules washed out, appeared to be very active as well. The terminal falling (settling) velocity of sludge granules taken at day 155 from reactor 1 at a sample point 1 m above the liquid distribution system was 39 m/h, at a sample point 3.9 m above the liquid distribution system was 30 m/h and at a sample point 7.3 m above the liquid distribution system was 27 m/h. For reactor 2 the terminal falling velocity of the granules was 32 m/h at a height of 1.0 m and 29 m/h at a height of 3.9 m above the liquid distribution system. As demonstrated above it is possible to obtain granular sludge without an inoculation of similar sludge material in fluidized bed reactors wherein the carrier material (such as sand) has virtually disappeared. The upward superficial liquid velocity was 8-10 m/h, the superficial biogas velocity in the upper part of the reactors was 2-5 m/h (R-1) and 3-8 m/h (R-2), respectively. Although the reactors were not supplied with the above described improvements viz, the gas collection partitions (6) or partition (10) or the simplified influent pipes, granular sludge was formed, which was able to purify the waste water. The result is notable in view of the industrial circumstances of the factory viz. the continually changing liquid and COD-load, for example in the weekend hardly any waste water was supplied to the system. The special gas collection device, as described before on the basis of FIG. 4 was installed in two fullscale reactors with circular diameter of 5 m and diameter of hood of 6.5 m; grossvolume is 380 m.sup.3, and nett volume of the reactors is 240 m.sup.3. The reactors operated in series, i.e. the feed liquid was introduced in Reactor 1 in which mainly acidification and sulphate reduction processes take place, thereafter the "acidified" liquid was introduced into Reactor 2 in which mainly methanisation processes take place. The special gas collection device collected about 70% of the gas formed, which gas did not enter the three-phase separator. Parallel with the two mentioned reactors, two other reactors operated with exactly the same influent composition, same biological processes and identical technical dimensions of the reactors and identical operational conditions. In the second set of reactors however these special gas collection devices were not installed. All (4) reactors operated on the biomass-on-carrier principle, using sand (0.2-0.4 mm) as carrier. A period of over 500 days in which the two sets were operated without main interruptions demonstrated clearly the positive effect of the gas collection device. Without this device the loss of overgrown particles with a terminal falling velocity of 60 m/h starts already at liquid superficial velocity of 10 m/h and amounts then up to about 50 kg/day. At a superficial velocity of 16 m/h the loss increases to 200 kg/day and more. With the special gas collection device the loss of identical particles is virtually nil even at a superficial velocity of 16 m/h. Patent Citations
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These are actually some of my most favorite of your captures...aside from the ones you take when you travel...(but those I like out of jealousy;))
This is beautiful. And as I have never seen this well-known "monument" in real life...I like these so called "predictable" pictures of yours.
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pretty good escobar will be the starter for the Braves this year since Renteria is gone.You should drop Percival and get Brandon Lyon if available or Kerry Wood.Look at my trade pleaseit is BIG TRADE!!!! need experts
Is Lyon starting season as closer for sure?
i think sohe would still be better than percival


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