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Situation analysis of China’s wastewater discharge

Great progress has been made in reducing China’s water pollution after decades of efforts. From the perspective of wastewater discharge, the situation of wastewater discharge since 1985 is analysed in this study, with importance attached to industrial wastewater, including wastewater from township enterprises, and to municipal domestic wastewater. In general, the total wastewater discharge in ...

Aug. 11, 2014

By Inderscience Publishers

Flow-rate and pollution characteristics of domestic wastewater

The characteristics of the flow-rate and pollution parameters of the domestic wastewater of a medium-size city (Sivas, Turkey) have been investigated. The design and the operating parameters of a wastewater treatment plant appropriate to such a settlement were also studied. Daily and monthly flow-rate measurements and wastewater samples were taken at the outlet. Peak values of the flow-rate were ...

Jan. 26, 2004

By Inderscience Publishers

Rural domestic wastewater treatment in Norway and Poland: experiences, cooperation and concepts on the improvement of constructed wetland technology

This article describes Norwegian and Polish experiences concerning domestic wastewater treatment obtained during nearly 20 years of operation for constructed wetland (CW) systems in rural areas and scattered settlements. The Norwegian CW systems revealed a high performance with respect to the removal of organic matter, biogenic elements and faecal indicator bacteria. The performance of the Polish ...

Feb. 1, 2011

By IWA Publishing

Management of hospital wastewaters: the case of the effluent of a large hospital situated in a small town

Hospitals are the main source of pharmaceutical compounds (PhCs) released into the environment. Generally, their discharges are co-treated with domestic wastewaters, resulting in a decrement of the recalcitrant compound concentrations in the final effluent due to water dilution. However, as many PhCs resist normal treatments, pollutant load does not change. This paper compares the chemical ...

May 1, 2010

By IWA Publishing

Degradation of organic matter from domestic wastewater with loofah sponge biofilm reactor

A laboratory-scale oxic biofilm reactor using loofah sponge as support material was carried out to study its start-up characteristics and the optimum operation parameters in removing organic matter and nitrogen from domestic wastewater. It took no more than 10 days to complete microbiological cultivation and acclimation, indicating that the natural loofah sponge was a superior support material ...

Dec. 1, 2011

By IWA Publishing

Hydrodynamic characterisation of an airlift reactor for domestic wastewater treatment

This study evaluates the hydrodynamic and mass–transfer behaviour of a 20–L airlift photobioreactor, employed for secondary wastewater treatment of domestic effluent. Gas hold–up (ε), as well as the volumetric mass transfer coefficient (kLa) was assessed as a function of superficial gas velocity (Ug) for both bi– and triphasic systems. In the experimental range of Ug investigated, the maximum kLa ...

Dec. 4, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers

Urban domestic wastewater: how to reduce individual injection?

The present paper aims to identify ways to reduce pollution injected by residents in the urban wastewater network system. Two approaches are considered. The first one uses flow and pollutant calculation to test whether a polluter can easily be identified in a neighborhood. The second approach uses a survey to examine what incentive would be most effective to influence residents’ behavior. ...

Sep. 15, 2015

By IWA Publishing

Pathogen removal from domestic and swine wastewater by experimental constructed wetlands

This study examined the performance of subsurface flow horizontal wetlands in total coliforms, faecal coliforms, enterococci and Salmonella removal from swine and domestic wastewaters. The effects of organic loading rate, contact time (CT) and the presence of aquatic macrophytes, Typha dominguensis and Typha latifolia, on treatment performance were evaluated. In general, chemical oxygen demand ...

Apr. 27, 2015

By IWA Publishing

An overall idea on domestic waste water treatment

Before suggesting any advice or guidance on domestic wastewater treatment, let us first learn its meaning. Wastewater is the term that relates to the description of waste water in terms of sewage waste or industrial liquid waste collected is cities and towns and treated at urban waste treatment plants along with the sewages that is generated from single houses in the rural areas and are treated ...

Sep. 2, 2016

By Genesis Water Technologies, Inc.

Seeking a way to promote the use of constructed wetlands for domestic wastewater treatment in developing countries

The aim of this study was to evaluate the domestic wastewater treatment efficiency as well as the survivability of commercially valuable ornamental plants in subsurface flow wetlands (SSFW) for domestic wastewater (DWW) treatment in laboratory and pilot wetland studies. The laboratory scale study included five different species (Zantedeschia aethiopica, Strelitzia reginae, Anthurium andreanum, ...

Feb. 1, 2011

By IWA Publishing

Domestic Wastewater Treatment - Case Study

Bay Meadows is a year-round RV and mobile home park located along the shores of Lake Ontario. The facility had been reliant on subsurface treatment, however current regulatory requirements eliminated the option of continuing with that approach. In addition to high bedrock, the lack of available area due to design fl ow values meant a more sophisticated sewage treatment solution would be ...

May 15, 2020

By Newterra

Exergoeconomic assessment of a municipal primary and secondary sewage treatment

This paper presents the exergoeconomic analysis and assessment of a municipal primary and secondary sewage treatment systems. Operation of an existing municipal sewage treatment plant is described in detail and an exergoeconomic methodology based on SPECO method is provided to allocate cost flows through subcomponents of the plant. The system treats nearly 222,000m³ domestic wastewater per day by ...

Nov. 9, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers

Post-Treatment Options for the Anaerobic Treatment of Domestic Wastewater

This paper focuses on the post-treatment options for the anaerobic treatment of domestic wastewater. Initially, the main limitations of anaerobic systems regarding carbon, nutrients and pathogen removal are presented. In sequence, the advantages of combined anaerobic/aerobic treatment and the main post-treatment options currently in use are discussed, including the presentation of flowsheets and ...

Jan. 1, 2006

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Quantification of dissolved methane in UASB reactors treating domestic wastewater under different operating conditions

This paper aimed at measuring the concentration of methane dissolved in effluents from different UASB reactors (pilot-, demo- and full-scale) treating domestic wastewater, in order to calculate the degree of saturation of such greenhouse gas and evaluate the losses of energetic potential in such systems. The results showed that methane saturation degrees, calculated according to Henry's law, ...

Dec. 1, 2011

By IWA Publishing

Anaerobic Treatment in Decentralised and Source-Separation-Based Sanitation Concepts

Anaerobic digestion of wastewater should be a core technology employed in decentralised sanitation systems especially when their objective is also resource conservation and reuse. The most efficient system involves separate collection and anaerobic digestion of the most concentrated domestic wastewater streams: black or brown water and solid fraction of kitchen waste. Separate collection using ...

Jan. 1, 2006

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

A model for anaerobic ponds combining settling and biological processes

This work presents an approach to an anaerobic pond model by combining the stoichiometry of the hydrolysis and acidogenic processes of the main constituents of wastewater, i.e. carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids, grouped as a ‘combined substrate’ with a previously published settling model (see ‘Suspended solids settling and half removal time in stabilization ponds ...

Jun. 21, 2013

By IWA Publishing

Sludge accumulation and conversion to methane in a septic tank treating domestic wastewater or black water

Although the septic tank is the most applied on-site system for wastewater pre-treatment, limited research has been performed to determine sludge accumulation and biogas production in the tank. Therefore a dynamic mathematical model based on the Anaerobic Digestion Model No. 1 (ADM1) was developed for anaerobic digestion of the accumulated sludge in a septic tank treating domestic wastewater or ...

Aug. 29, 2013

By IWA Publishing

Treatment of domestic wastewater using upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor

This paper presents the findings of the study on treatment of domestic wastewater using a laboratory scale Hybrid Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (HUASB) reactor. The reactor with a working volume of 5.9 L and plastic cut rings as packing media was operated at varying Hydraulic Retention Time (HRT) for a period of 110 days. While the COD removal varied from 75-86%, the BOD removal was in the ...

Jun. 20, 2007

By Center for Environment and Energy Research & Studies (CEERS)

Domestic wastewater treatment with a decentralized, simple technology biomass concentrator reactor

A new type of membrane-like aerobic reactor initially designed for the degradation of hydrocarbon-derived groundwater contaminants was tested for treating domestic wastewater. The biomass concentrator reactor (BCR) consists of an enclosed, aerated tank containing a graded filtration medium with the function of solids separation, and was previously used to treat industrial wastewaters ...

Jul. 8, 2016

By IWA Publishing

Domestic wastewater treatment and biofuel production by using microalga <italic>Scenedesmus</italic> sp. ZTY1

Domestic wastewater treatment and biofuel production by using microalga Scenedesmus sp. ZTY1

Cultivation of microalgae for biomass production is a promising way to dispose of wastewater and recover nutrients simultaneously. The properties of nutrient removal and biomass production in domestic wastewater of a newly isolated microalga Scenedesmus sp. ZTY1 were investigated in this study. Scenedesmus sp. ZTY1, which was isolated from a wastewater treatment plant in Beijing, grew well in ...

Jun. 25, 2014

By IWA Publishing

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