Evaluation of Sewage Treatment Requirements in Cold Regions: Case Study?City of Whitehorse
This paper describes a method available for evaluating sewage treatment requirements in cold regions. The City of Whitehorse wastewater management situation has been used as an example...
Lift Station Design
This article describes a computing basics program that calculates flows in sanitary or storm sewage lift station. The program was written to aid in design of duplex sanitary or storm sewage...
Treating Sewage in One Tank
A sequencing batch reactor (SBR) was the answer to a sewage problem that was holding up community development in Poolesville, MD. Poolesville was one of the first municipalities in the...
Control of Buoyant Jet Mixing by Far Field Spreading
Large Scale ABF Mode Proves to be an Innovative Alternative for the City of Memphis
The article describes a modification carried out to overcome overloading of wastewater treatment plant at Memphis. The plant was originally constructed as a contact stabilization activated...
Effect of Wastewater Characteristics on the Sulfide Problem (
This paper presents an overview of various wastewater characteristics with which the designer should be familiar, and the effect of those characteristics on the sulfide problem, including...
Safety Aspects of Sulfide and Corrosion Studies (
An overview of the hazards involved in performing sulfide and corrosion studies in sewage treatment and collection systems is presented. Important factors which should be recognized in...
Mixing and Polymer Performance in Sludge Dewatering
A biofilm reactor, termed the support-aerated biofilm (SAB), was developed in which oxygen was supplied to the interior of the biofilm through a permeable membrane. The reactor was tested...
Lagrangian-Eulerian Approach to Modeling Contaminants
A Lagrangian-Eulerian modeling approach predicts potential contaminant distributions resulting from the disposal of sewage sludge at the Deepwater Municipal Disposal Site off the northeast...
Effect of Baghdad City Sewage Treatment Effluents on Dissolved Oxygen Profiles of an Iraqi River
The paper presents measured dissolved oxygen (DO) profiles in an Iraqi river in the vicinity of Baghdad City. The effect of the effluent discharges from Baghdad Sewage Treatment Plant...
Water Supply and Sewage Disposal: Shanghai, China
This paper describes a joint research effort which took place between the Shanghai Bureau of Environmental Protection, Tsinghua University (Beijing), and the University of Michigan. The...
Alternate Sewers�No Longer Alternate
The term alternate sewers means those used where neither conventional gravity sanitary sewers will suffice, nor will the septic tank/leach field system. In such situations, usually one...
Nature's Plants Treat Sewage
Seattle Redirects Its Sewage
Consensus: Sewage Good for Oceans
Athens Banishes Sewage to Island
Dried Sludge for Fertilizer
Dried sewage sludge has been used as a fertilizer material for several decades in the United States. While sludge drying and fertilizer production is normally more costly than other municipal...
Methodology of Determining Acceptable Levels of Heavy Metal Contamination in Municipal Sewage Sludge Applied to Cropland
The potential public health risks associated with the agricultural utilization of municipal sewage sludge dictate the development of environmentally acceptable criteria for the disposal...
Oxygen Transfer Studies in Activated Sludge
A bench-scale research project was undertaken to evaluate the two-film model for predicting oxygen transfer rates in sparged suspended growth systems and to determine if interfacial oxygen...
A New Approach to Activated Sludge Plant Design
Activated sludge plants are designed on the basis of stationary tests at laboratory scale for constant organic loads and constant input flows. From these tests the kinetic parameters are...
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