scholarly journals VAZÃO E TRATAMENTO SECUNDÁRIO DE ESGOTO DOMÉSTICO EM ESTAÇÃO DE PEQUENO PORTE COM SISTEMA DE ZONA DE RAÍZES

Irriga ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-71
Author(s):  
Ana Cláudia Oliveira Sérvulo ◽  
Jeane Da Silva Tavares ◽  
Rodrigo Moura Pereira ◽  
Delvio Sandri
Keyword(s):  
Root Zone ◽  
Potential Evapotranspiration ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Water System ◽  
Free Water ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Treatment Wetland ◽  
Cyperus Giganteus ◽  
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VAZÃO E TRATAMENTO SECUNDÁRIO DE ESGOTO DOMÉSTICO EM ESTAÇÃO DE PEQUENO PORTE COM SISTEMA DE ZONA DE RAÍZES     ANA CLÁUDIA OLIVEIRA SÉRVULO1; JEANE DA SILVA TAVARES2RODRIGO MOURA PEREIRA3E DELVIO SANDRI4   1Doutoranda, Programa de Pós Graduação em Agronomia, Universidade de Brasília (UnB),Faculdade de Agronomia e Medicina Veterinária (FAV), Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, ICC Centro,Asa Norte CEP 70.910-900 – Brasília, Brasil, e-mail: [email protected]. 2Aluna de graduação, Universidade de Brasília (UnB),Faculdade de Agronomia e Medicina Veterinária (FAV), Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, ICC Centro,Asa Norte CEP 70.910-900 – Brasília, Brasil, e-mail:[email protected]. 3Doutorando, Universidade de Brasília (UnB),Faculdade de Agronomia e Medicina Veterinária (FAV), Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, ICC Centro,Asa Norte CEP 70.910-900 – Brasília, Brasil, e-mail: [email protected]. 4Prof. Associado 1, Universidade de Brasília (UnB),Faculdade de Agronomia e Medicina Veterinária (FAV), Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, ICC Centro,Asa Norte CEP 70.910-900 – Brasília, Brasil, e-mail: [email protected].     1 RESUMO   O sistema de zona de raízes (SZR) é uma alternativa para tratamento de esgotos, cuja eficiência depende do material de suporte, composição do esgoto, espécie de macrófita e tempo de detenção hidráulica (TDH). Objetivou-se avaliar a medição de vazões de afluente e efluente de esgoto dos SZR com o uso de hidrômetro e método direto volumétrico(MDV) e a eficiência de diferentes espécies de macrófitas na remoção de atributos físicos e químicos do efluente. O esgoto bruto é gerado nos sanitários e restaurante universitário da Fazenda Água Limpa -UnB. Quatro leitos de tratamento foram utilizados: não cultivado, SZR com C. giganteus, Typha sppe H. rostrata. As avaliações ocorreram em quatro dias distintos. A evapotranspiração potencial (ETP) dos leitos foi obtida pela razão entre a diferença de volumes de afluente e efluente e a área superficial dos leitos. O hidrômetro não foi adequado na medida do volume de afluente, recomendando-se o MDV. A maior ETP ocorreu no SZR com Typha spp (9,98 mm dia-1)seguido do C. giganteus(9,37 mm dia-1).O maior valor de TDH foi de 9,49 dias e o menor de 4,68 dias. O oxigênio dissolvido, pH, turbidez e sólidos totais atendem aos limites para lançamento em corpos hídricos de classe 2.   Palavras-chaves: macrófita, água residuária, leito cultivado.     SÉRVULO, A.C.O.; TAVARES, J.S.; PEREIRA, R.M.; SANDRI, D. FLOW RATES AND SECONDARY TREATMENT OF WASTEWATER IN SMALL-SCALE TREATMENT PLANT WITH ROOT ZONE SYSTEM     2 ABSTRACT   The root treatment wetland (RTW) is a low cost option to wastewater treatment, which efficiency depends on support material, wastewater composition, macrophyte specie and hydraulic detention time (HDT). This paper aimed to test the performance of the hydrometer and the volumetric method (VM)on measurement of effluentflow, and the removal efficiency of different macrophyte species over physical and chemical effluent attributes. The wastewater was from the bathrooms and restaurant in the experimental farm of the University of Brasília. Four constructed wetlands were used: free water system (FWS), RTW with Cyperus giganteus, with Typha spp and with Heliconia rostrata. The evaluation occurred in four days isolated. The systems’ potential evapotranspiration (PET) was determinate by the quocient of affluent-effluent volumes balance and the wetland surface area. The hydrometer didn’t measure affluent flow properly, recommending the VM. The highest PET was on RTW-Typha spp (9.98 mm day-1), followed by C. giganteus (9.37 mm day-1). The highest HDT was 9,49 days and the lowest was 4.68 days. The dissolved oxygen, pH, turbidity and total solids content are fit the Brazilian legal requirements for release into class 2 receiving bodies.   Keywords: macrophytes, sewage, wetland.

Interactions of Sewerage and Waste-Water Treatment: Practical Examples in The Netherlands

1993 ◽  
Vol 27 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. J. M. van der Graaf
Keyword(s):  
Waste Water ◽  
Water Treatment ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Water Cycle ◽  
Waste Water Treatment ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Water System ◽  
Water Treatment Plant ◽  
Waste Water Treatment Plant ◽  
Small Scale

Various interactions of sewerage and waste-water treatment are discussed for the typical situation in the Netherlands. Sewerage and waste-water treatment are no longer necessary when each house has its own integrated waste-water system; however, costs seem to be high. The same applies for small-scale waste-water treatment versus centralisation. However, centralized waste-water treatment plants suffer from specific problems due to high fluctuations, not only in hydraulic but also in biological load. With stringent effluent standards the need increases for complete treatment instead of by-passing the peak flows. Besides, the application of buffering tanks may change in favour of an increase in the hydraulic capacity of the waste-water treatment plant. Finally, a new, integrated, attitude on water-cycle problems must be advocated.

scholarly journals Online Monitoring of a Long-Term Full-Scale Constructed Wetland for the Treatment of Winery Wastewater in Italy

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anacleto Rizzo ◽  
Riccardo Bresciani ◽  
Nicola Martinuzzi ◽  
Fabio Masi
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plant ◽  
Performance Optimization ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Water System ◽  
Free Water ◽  
Online Data ◽  
Online Sensor ◽  
Reed Bed

Nature-based solutions, such as Constructed Wetlands (CWs), for the treatment of industrial wastewater can be more efficiently operated making use of online monitored parameters as inlet/outlet flows and concentrations for specific substances. The present study compares different datasets acquired in a two-and-a-half-year-long period by normal laboratory methods and also from a specific COD/BOD sensor installed at a winery CWs wastewater treatment plant in Tuscany, Italy. The CW wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) is composed of: equalization tank (70 m3); French Reed Bed (1200 m2); horizontal subsurface flow (HF) CW (960 m2): free water system (850 m2); optional post-treatment sand filter (50 m2); and emergency recirculation. The obtained average performances for this last period are for COD 97.5%, for MBAS 93.1%, for N-NO2- 84.7%, for NO3- 39.9%, and for TP 45.5%. The online sensor has shown excellent performance in following the COD concentration patterns along the observed period. The qualitative and quantitative validity of the online sensor measurements has been assessed by statistical analysis (t-test) and reported in the paper. Online data, acquired every 30 min, availability is of extreme importance for the CW system performance optimization, for understanding the behavior of the WWTP in different operative scenarios, and finally for driving the powering on or off eventual process enhancement tools.

Lab and pilot scale tests as tools for upgrading - comparison with full scale results

1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (9) ◽  
pp. 25-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Åsa Malmqvist ◽  
Lars Gunnarsson ◽  
Christer Torstenon
Keyword(s):  
Biological Treatment ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Paper Mill ◽  
Pilot Scale ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Organic Load ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Design Data ◽  
Biofilm Process

Parameters such as hydraulic retention time, organic load, maximum COD removal, sludge characteristics and optimal nutrient dosage can be determined by simulation in small scale models of the chosen process. Laboratory tests are the natural first step when considering upgrading, or designing a new, biological treatment plant. The potential for a biological treatment can be examined at a low cost and within a minimum of time, often through parallel testing of different treatment methods. Once a suitable process configuration has been found, lab scale tests may well be used for optimizing the process and obtaining design data, thus minimizing the need for more expensive tests in larger scale. The principal reason for a pilot plant test is the possibility to investigate natural variations in wastewater composition and the effect this will have on process stability. The use of laboratory and pilot scale tests is here illustrated by the work carried out prior to the upgrading of the treatment plant at Nyboholm paper mill. A description of the upgraded full scale installation consisting of both chemical treatment and a suspended-carrier biofilm process is included and a comparison between results from lab, pilot and full scale treatment is made.

Small scale recirculating vertical flow constructed wetland (RVFCW) for the treatment and reuse of wastewater

2008 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 487-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Gross ◽  
M. Y. Sklarz ◽  
A. Yakirevich ◽  
M. I. M. Soares
Keyword(s):  
Constructed Wetland ◽  
Root Zone ◽  
Lower Layer ◽  
Plant Root ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Treatment Method ◽  
Organic Soil ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Vertical Flow ◽  
Vertical Flow Constructed Wetland

The quantity of freshwater available worldwide is declining, revealing a pressing need for its more efficient use. Moreover, in many developing countries and lightly populated areas, raw wastewater is discarded into the environment posing serious ecological and health problems. Unfortunately, this situation will persist unless low-cost, effective and simple technologies are brought in. The aim of this study is to present such a treatment method, a novel setup which is termed recirculating vertical flow constructed wetland (RVFCW). The RVFCW is composed of two components: (i) a three-layer bed consisting of planted organic soil over an upper layer of filtering media (i.e. tuff or beads) and a lower layer of limestone pebbles, and (ii) a reservoir located beneath the bed. Wastewater flows directly into the plant root zone and trickles down through the three-layer bed into the reservoir, allowing passive aeration. From the reservoir the water is recirculated back to the bed, several times, until the desired purification is achieved. The results obtained show that the RVFCW is an effective and convenient strategy to treat (domestic, grey and agro) wastewater for re-use in irrigation. The system performance is expected to be further improved once current optimization experiments and mathematical modeling studies are concluded.

Planning Replicable Small Flow Wastewater Treatment Facilities in Developing Nations

1993 ◽  
Vol 28 (10) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Gaber ◽  
M. Antill ◽  
W. Kimball ◽  
R. Abdel Wahab
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Development Program ◽  
The United States ◽  
Appropriate Technology ◽  
Funding Agency ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Technology Choice

The implementation of urban village wastewater treatment plants in developing countries has historically been primarily a function of appropriate technology choice and deciding which of the many needy communities should receive the available funding and priority attention. Usually this process is driven by an outside funding agency who views the planning, design, and construction steps as relatively insignificant milestones in the overall effort required to quickly better a community's sanitary drainage problems. With the exception of very small scale type sanitation projects which have relatively simple replication steps, the development emphasis tends to be on the final treatment plant product with little or no attention specifically focused on community participation and institutionalizing national and local policies and procedures needed for future locally sponsored facilities replication. In contrast to this, the Government of Egypt (GOE) enacted a fresh approach through a Local Development Program with the United States AID program. An overview is presented of the guiding principals of the program which produced the first 24 working wastewater systems including gravity sewers, sewage pumping stations and wastewater treatment plants which were designed and constructed by local entities in Egypt. The wastewater projects cover five different treatment technologies implemented in both delta and desert regions.

Tools of Transformation: Appropriate Technology in U.S. Countercultural Literature

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-93
Author(s):  
Peter Mortensen
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Appropriate Technology ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Environmental Transformation ◽  
Buckminster Fuller ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Environmentally Sound ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Second Wave

This essay takes its cue from second-wave ecocriticism and from recent scholarly interest in the “appropriate technology” movement that evolved during the 1960s and 1970s in California and elsewhere. “Appropriate technology” (or AT) refers to a loosely-knit group of writers, engineers and designers active in the years around 1970, and more generally to the counterculture’s promotion, development and application of technologies that were small-scale, low-cost, user-friendly, human-empowering and environmentally sound. Focusing on two roughly contemporary but now largely forgotten American texts Sidney Goldfarb’s lyric poem “Solar-Heated-Rhombic-Dodecahedron” (1969) and Gurney Norman’s novel Divine Right’s Trip (1971)—I consider how “hip” literary writers contributed to eco-technological discourse and argue for the 1960s counterculture’s relevance to present-day ecological concerns. Goldfarb’s and Norman’s texts interest me because they conceptualize iconic 1960s technologies—especially the Buckminster Fuller-inspired geodesic dome and the Volkswagen van—not as inherently alienating machines but as tools of profound individual, social and environmental transformation. Synthesizing antimodernist back-to-nature desires with modernist enthusiasm for (certain kinds of) machinery, these texts adumbrate a humanity- and modernity-centered post-wilderness model of environmentalism that resonates with the dilemmas that we face in our increasingly resource-impoverished, rapidly warming and densely populated world.

Treatment of Rural Domestic Sewage by Solar Ozonic Ecological Sewage Treatment Plant

2014 ◽  
Vol 955-959 ◽  
pp. 3393-3399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Zheng ◽  
Yan Ming Yang ◽  
Yun Long Li ◽  
Jian Qiu Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Municipal Wastewater ◽  
Operating Cost ◽  
Sewage Treatment ◽  
Sewage Treatment Plant ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Domestic Sewage ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Municipal Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Average Percentage

The process technique and design parameters of project of Solar Ozonic Ecological Sewage Treatment Plant (short for SOESTP) which consists of anaerobic reactor, horizontal subsurface flow (HSSF) constructed wetlands(CWs) and the combination of solar power and ozone disinfection are described, the paper further examines the removal efficiency for treating rural domestic sewage, running expense and recycling ability of product water. The results show that the average percentage removal values of CODcr，BOD5，SS，TN，NH3-N，TP range from 95.6% to 98.0%, 96.0% to 98.7%, 93.1% to 96.1%, 97.0% to 98.9%, 96.9% to 99.5%, 98.2% to 99.6%, respectively, the reduction of fecal coliform (FC) reaches 99.9%, the effluent quality meets the first level A criteria specified in Discharge Standard of Pollutants for Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant（GB18918-2002）. The running cost of SOESTP is 0.063yuan/ m3, saves much more than traditional sewage treatment, and the ozone water obtained from the reservoir will be an ideal choice for disinfection .The system has characteristics of easy manipulation, low operating cost, achieving advanced water, energy conservation and environment protection, is thought to be very suitable for use as the promotion of rural small - scale sewage treatment.

scholarly journals Development of a simplified gas ultracleaning process: experiments in biomass residue-based fixed-bed gasification syngas

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Frilund ◽  
Esa Kurkela ◽  
Ilkka Hiltunen
Keyword(s):  
Activated Carbons ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Fixed Bed ◽  
Carbonyl Sulfide ◽  
Gas Analysis ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Cleaning Process ◽  
Medium Temperature ◽  
Gas Cleaning ◽  
Adsorption Affinity

AbstractFor the realization of small-scale biomass-to-liquid (BTL) processes, low-cost syngas cleaning remains a major obstacle, and for this reason a simplified gas ultracleaning process is being developed. In this study, a low- to medium-temperature final gas cleaning process based on adsorption and organic solvent-free scrubbing methods was coupled to a pilot-scale staged fixed-bed gasification facility including hot filtration and catalytic reforming steps for extended duration gas cleaning tests for the generation of ultraclean syngas. The final gas cleaning process purified syngas from woody and agricultural biomass origin to a degree suitable for catalytic synthesis. The gas contained up to 3000 ppm of ammonia, 1300 ppm of benzene, 200 ppm of hydrogen sulfide, 10 ppm of carbonyl sulfide, and 5 ppm of hydrogen cyanide. Post-run characterization displayed that the accumulation of impurities on the Cu-based deoxygenation catalyst (TOS 105 h) did not occur, demonstrating that effective main impurity removal was achieved in the first two steps: acidic water scrubbing (AWC) and adsorption by activated carbons (AR). In the final test campaign, a comprehensive multipoint gas analysis confirmed that ammonia was fully removed by the scrubbing step, and benzene and H2S were fully removed by the subsequent activated carbon beds. The activated carbons achieved > 90% removal of up to 100 ppm of COS and 5 ppm of HCN in the syngas. These results provide insights into the adsorption affinity of activated carbons in a complex impurity matrix, which would be arduous to replicate in laboratory conditions.

scholarly journals Addressing the challenges in projects of water treatment plants and storage of potable water: a case studies of the water supply system in the state of Goiás, Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Louise de Melo Dores ◽  
Felipe Corrêa Veloso dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Water Treatment ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Water System ◽  
Treatment Phase ◽  
Water Treatment Plant ◽  
Operating Efficiency ◽  
Water Supply Systems ◽  
Storage Tanks ◽  
Variation Curve

AbstractTo elaborate efficient and economical water supply systems is one of the main objectives in the sanitation companies water system projects. In order to address the challenges faced in reaching this objective, this study aims to identify, first, the relation between the percentage of non-conformed samples in treated water and the inefficiency of the filtering units installed in the water treatment plant, and second, if, by drawing the consumption variation curve it is the most efficient way to predict the storage tanks volume—comparing necessary capacity, determined by the consumption curve, and installed capacity, predict by the outdated Brazilian normative. In order to reach answers for these two questions, this study measured the operating efficiency of the treatment plant as well as have set a quantitative comparison between the two dimensioning criteria for storage tanks volume present in the literature. As a result, the analysis provided the authors to detect a focus of contamination in the single-layered filtering units, limited by the filtering capacity of 2–6 m3/(m2 day), whilst operating at 333.13 m3/(m2 day). As well as to detect by the drawing of the consumption variation curve an oversize of 68% and 60% in the dimensioning of the studied storage tanks. With the results provided by this analysis approach, it was possible to efficiently detect and correct critical impairments in the treatment phase and to conclude that a long-term analysis should be drawn in order to affirm if the consumption variation curve is the best design methodology for the reservoirs.

scholarly journals Understanding Spatial Variability of NO2 in Urban Areas Using Spatial Modelling and Data Fusion Approaches

Atmosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Said Munir ◽  
Martin Mayfield ◽  
Daniel Coca
Keyword(s):  
Data Fusion ◽  
Spatial Variability ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Dispersion Model ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Spatial Modelling ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
The City

Small-scale spatial variability in NO2 concentrations is analysed with the help of pollution maps. Maps of NO2 estimated by the Airviro dispersion model and land use regression (LUR) model are fused with measured NO2 concentrations from low-cost sensors (LCS), reference sensors and diffusion tubes. In this study, geostatistical universal kriging was employed for fusing (integrating) model estimations with measured NO2 concentrations. The results showed that the data fusion approach was capable of estimating realistic NO2 concentration maps that inherited spatial patterns of the pollutant from the model estimations and adjusted the modelled values using the measured concentrations. Maps produced by the fusion of NO2-LCS with NO2-LUR produced better results, with r-value 0.96 and RMSE 9.09. Data fusion adds value to both measured and estimated concentrations: the measured data are improved by predicting spatiotemporal gaps, whereas the modelled data are improved by constraining them with observed data. Hotspots of NO2 were shown in the city centre, eastern parts of the city towards the motorway (M1) and on some major roads. Air quality standards were exceeded at several locations in Sheffield, where annual mean NO2 levels were higher than 40 µg/m3. Road traffic was considered to be the dominant emission source of NO2 in Sheffield.

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