1. Lecture (8): Topic (1) liquid wastes treatment (primary, vital, advanced).
Conventional Sewage Treatment Plants:
the conventional plant’s performance is usually measured by reductions in suspended matter, BOD, and bacteria. The processes in conventional plants include:
1) pretreatment,
2) settling,
3) chemical treatment,
4) biological oxidation,
5) disinfection, and
6) sludge conditioning and disposal processes

2. Selection of Specific Processes:
In the selection of specific processes and plant design, points must be consider:
The existing and potential regulatory standards;
Plant operators’ requirements and availability;
Existing and projected sewage flow;
Flow pattern and waste characteristics;
Climate,
Topography,
Availability of land;
Plant location within the community;
All aspects of cost.

3. (1) Pretreatment Processes:
Objectives:
To protect pumping equipment.
Control and monitor instruments.
Prevent clogging filters.
Pretreatment equipment includes:
Screens, grinders, skimmers, and grit chambers. Flow equalization is also a pretreatment process.

4. (2) Settling or Clarification
Remove settleable solids by gravity.
A rectangular or square tank .
Settling tanks are commonly designed based on the:
Overflow rate,
The unit volume of flow (gallons per day per square foot).
The detention times for settling .

5. (3) Chemical Treatment:
The addition of chemical coagulants is an effective way to improve the settling characteristics of suspended solids.
This process may also be a feasible alternative to:
Improve the efficiency of existing.
and/or overloaded settling basins.

6. A comparison of advantages and disadvantages of the more common coagulants is presented in table below:
Coagulant
Advantage
Disadvantage
Alum
Easy to handle and apply; most effective between pH 6.8–7.5
Adds dissolved solids (salts) to water, effective over a limited pH range
Ferric chloride
Effective between pH 4–11; also makes sludge dewatering,
Adds dissolved solids (salts) to water
Ferric sulfate
Effective between pH 4–6 and 8.8 – 9.2
Adds dissolved solids (salts) to water; usually need to add alkalinity
Ferrous sulfate
Not as pH-sensitive as lime
lime
Commonly used, very effective; may not increase TDS; sludge dewaters easily
Very pH dependent; produces large quantities of sludges; overdose can result in poor effluent quality
Polymer
Small dosage usually needed, easy to handle and feed
Improper dose results in poor floc formation

7. (4) Biological treatment:
Two basic techniques:
(4:A) Fixed-bed:
The trickling filter has a fixed-bed of stone or plastic packing material that provides a growth surface for specific bacteria and other organisms.
(4:B) Fluid-bed:
The activated-sludge processes and sewage lagoons are fluid-bed systems.

8. (4:A) Trickling Filters
Trickling filters are the most common treatment units used by municipalities to provide aerobic biological treatment. Trickling filters are classified according to:
The hydraulic.
Organic loading applied.

9. (4:B:1) Activated Sludge
Activated-sludge processes use continuous agitation and artificially supplied aeration of settled sewage together with recirculation of a portion of the active sludge that settles in a separate clarifier back to the aeration tanks. These processes vary in:
Detention time,
Method of mixing and aeration,
Technique of introducing the waste,
Recirculated sludge.

10. (4:B:2) Oxidation Ponds
Lagoons and ponds have many applications ranging from complete raw waste treatment to polishing a secondary plant’s effluents.
The applications do not use metal or concrete tanks. A lagoon is a pond of design that receives waste that has not been settled or exposed to biological oxidation prior to entering it.

11. (5) Disinfection
Conventional treatment plants use chlorination as the final treatment process to reduce bacteria concentration. Disinfection involves the destruction of disease-causing organisms. The most common means of wastewater disinfection is chlorination.

12. (6) Treatment of drainage sludge
The solid material deposited in the settlement tanks is known as sludge. It is:
a thickish,
offensive smelling,
liquid with a water content ranging from 60% to 95%.

13. (6:1) Thickening
Thickening:
The first stage in treatment is to remove as much water as possible in order to reduce the volume of material. As the water is removed the solids concentration increases.

14. (6:2) Dewatering
Dewatering This is the process increases the solids concentration up to around 40% are known as dewatering and improvements in dewatering technology has led the production of drier cakes.
Dewatering is carried out using either centrifuges, belt presses or plate presses

15. Enhancement
Enhancement processes do more than simply remove water and they fundamentally change the nature of the sludge itself. There are two processes:
Anaerobic digestion.
Composting.

16. Topic (3) Reusing wastewater
Wastewater reuse can be grouped into the following categories:
• Urban reuse—(irrigation of public parks, ……..)
• Agricultural reuse—(irrigation of nonfood crops).
• Recreational impoundments—such as ponds and lakes.
• Environmental reuse— creating artificial wetlands,
• Industrial reuse—process or makeup water and cooling tower water.

17. Quiz Quiz (1): Pretreatment equipment includes one of the following:
Activated sludge.
Screens
Chlorination.
Filtration.
Disposal

18. Quiz (2): The objectives of Pretreatment Processes is:
To protect pumping equipment.
Control instruments
monitor instruments.
Prevent clogging filters.
All the above.

19. Quiz (3): The first process in the wastewater treatment plant is:
Filtration.
Chlorination.
Coagulation.
Screen.
Noe one of the above.

20. Quiz (4): Settling tanks are commonly designed based on the:
Overflow rate.
The unit volume of flow.
Gallons per day per square foot.
The detention times for settling .
All the above.

21. Quiz (5): Points must be consider in the selection of specific processes and plant design :
Regulatory standards.
Flow pattern
waste characteristics.
Climate.
All the above

22. Quiz (6): The processes in conventional plants include all the following except:
pretreatment.
settling.
sewer system.
biological oxidation.
disinfection.

23. Quiz (7): One of the advantage of Alum coagulants is most effective between:
pH 8.5 – 9.2
pH 6.8–7.5
Less than 7
Not as pH-sensitive
None one of the above

24. Quiz (8): Activated-sludge processes vary in all the following except:
Detention time,
Method of mixing and aeration,
Technique of introducing the waste,
Recirculated sludge.
Chlorination.

25. Quiz (9): Conventional treatment plants use chlorination to:
Remove TDS.
Remove odor and color.
reduce bacteria concentration.
Remove solids by gravity.
Disposal.

26. Quiz (10): The solid material deposited in the settlement tanks is known as:
Concrete.
Sand.
Feces.
Sludge.
Alum.

27. Quiz (11): Match item in (C) with item in (A) in the table bellow:
Effective between pH 4–6 and 8.8 – 9.2
Alum
Effective between pH 4–11; also makes sludge dewatering,
Ferric chloride
Easy to handle and apply; most effective between pH 6.8–7.5
Ferric sulfate