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Water treatment for domestic and commercial uses
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Primary water treatment

• Primary treatment Remove solids by screening and
  settling
• The sewage is passed through a screen to remove
  large pieces of debris (e.g. sticks, stones,
  rags, and plastic bags).
• Next, the sewage enters a grit chamber, where the
  water flow is slowed just enough to allow coarse
  sand and gravel to settle out on the bottom.
• Water then enters the sedimentation tank, its
  flow rate is further decreased to permit
  suspended solids to settle out as raw sludge.

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Primary water treatment

• Ca(OH)2 and Al2 (SO4)3 are often added to speed
  up the sedimentation process.
• 3 Ca(OH)2 Al2(SO4)3 ? 2 Al(OH)3 3 CaSO4
• Al(OH)3 is a gelatinous precipitation that
  settles out slowly, carrying suspended material
  and bacteria with it.
• Oily material floats to the surface and is
  skimmed off.

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• The grit is collected and disposed in landfill.
• The raw sludge
• Old way incinerated, disposed in landfill or
  dumped at sea.
• New way composted to produce a nutrient rich
  bacteria-free material for use as fertilizer.

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Primary treatment
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In older sewage-treatment plants, the water after
primary treatment is often chlorinated to kill
pathogens and then discharged into a natural
waterway. The discharged water at this stage
still contains a large amount of oxygen-consuming
wastes, which may deplete dissolved oxygen in the
water way and cause eutrophication.
is water pollution caused by excessive plant
nutrients
"blooms"
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Secondary treatment (biological treatment)

• Use bacteria to break down organic compounds to
  CO2.
• A mixture of organisms termed activated sludge
  is added to the sewage effluent.
• Air or oxygen is vigorously bubbled through pipes
  into the effluent.

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Secondary treatment

• The aerobic bacteria digest the organic material
  and break it down into CO2 and water.
• The bacteria and any remaining undecomposed
  material are returned to the aeration tank and
  reused.

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Activated sludge process
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Secondary treatment of municipal wastewater
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Most municipal plants chlorinated the water after
secondary treatment and then release it into
waterways. The discharged water at this stage has
90 of the original organic matter removed, but
over 50 of N, P species remains, and metal ions
and many synthetic organic compounds are
incompletely removed.
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Tertiary treatment (Advanced waste treatment)
includes a variety of processes performed on the
effluent from secondary waste treatment.

• Remove N and P nutrients.
• P removal by precipitation with lime
• 3 PO43- CaO (lime) ? Ca5(PO4)3(OH)
• Phosphate can also be removed by microorganisms
  that absorb phosphate.

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• Remove N and P nutrients.
• NH4 removal by ammonia stripping.
• NH4 OH- NH3 H2O (Excess OH- from lime)
• Alternative NH4 removal nitrifying bacteria
  convert NH4 to NO3- followed by denitrifying
  bacteria to convert NO3- to N2.
• Remove organics through filtration by activated
  carbon

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• Tertiary treatment

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Sludge treatment The sludge collected from
primary and secondary clarifiers is treated and
dewatered through a series of steps, i.e.,
anaerobic sludge tanks, sludge holding tank,
centrifuge and belt filter press.
A. From tertiary treatmentB. Gas tankC. Heat
exchangerD. DigesterE. Sludge holding tankF.
Sludge level sensorG. Supernatant to
headworksH. Sludge polymer mixerI. Polymer feed
systemJ. CentrifugeK. To load worksL. Belt
press dewateringM. Dewatered sludge cake to
landfill
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Tertiary treatment of municipal wastewater
Fe salt PO43-
Denitrification methanolbacteria (NO3-NH3-gtN2)
Nitrification bacteria (NH3O2-gtNO3-)
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Add water to remove any remaining solids,
principal same as the Primary Settling Tanks. 
The only difference is that the tanks in the
Tertiary Treatment process are rectangular and
do not have skimmers and sweepers.
all of the remaining solids are removed, the
water is sent to holding bays that simply hold
the water before it is filtered.  It is common to
find hundreds of fish living and thriving in
this holding bay
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Performance of primary and secondary stages of
sewage treatment
Source American Chemical Society
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• Sludge is an excellent fertilizer in principle
  rich in organic material and nutrients.
• Sludge often contains toxic metal species, which
  restricts the application of sludge to cropland.
• Sludge could be converted to methane by anaerobic
  bacteria, but this option suffers poor economics.
• Sludge can be a low-quality fuel for generating
  electricity.

sludge
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Disinfection

• Common disinfectants Chlorine, chlorine dioxide,
  and ozone.
• Disinfectants kill microorganisms by oxidizing
  vital molecules (often with unsaturated carbon
  bond) in them.
• Cl2 H2O HOCl H Cl-

Hypochlorous acid Active disinfection component
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Pros and cons of various disinfectants

• Cl2
• Cl2 is effective and relatively cheap.
• HOCl can act as a chlorinating agent to produce a
  variety of chlorinated organic compounds (for
  example, CHCl3).
• Many of the Cl-containing organics are toxic and
  non-biodegradable. Some (e.g. CH2Cl2, CHCl3,
  C2HCl3) are suspected carcinogens.
• O3 and ClO2
• More expensive than Cl2.
• Need to be generated on-site ? add on to the
  capital cost.
• Fast-acting and rapidly decomposed. (Persistence
  of disinfectants allows disinfect water where
  leakage through old pipes occur.)

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Generation of ClO2 and O3

• ClO2
• 2 NaClO2 (s) Cl2 (g) 2ClO2 (g) 2 NaCl (s)
• Sodium hypochlorite
• O3
• Subject pressurized air to an electric discharge
  of 20,000v.

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Study questions

• What does primary, secondary, and tertiary water
  treatment achieve? How does each water treatment
  step achieve its goal(s)?
• What chemicals are often used for disinfection?
  What is the mechanism of disinfection?