Wastewater pretreatment system

Typical wastewater pretreatment systems at concentrate facility locations include hydroxide precipitation, filtration, resin bed/ion exchange, and clarifier sedimentation. Wastewater discharge at all facilities must meet the requirements of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), individual states, and the conditions outlined by local wastewater pretreatment ordinances. 

When iadustrial wastewaters are mixed with municipal wastes, as ia many urban systems, toxic and inhibitory materials are removed ia the pretreatment system where nutrient chemicals, eg, nitrogen and phosphoms, are added. 

Applicable local, state, and federal environmental laws require that the waste generated by the nickel-chromium plating process be pretreated to provide a discharge acceptable to the public wastewater treatment system. 

The specific purpose of this chapter is to describe the chemical and physical pretreatment methods required for nickel-chromium plating wastewater, to describe the upgrades needed by a municipal wastewater treatment system to manage this waste, and to relate the methods and upgrades to the operation of the total treatment system. Special emphasis is placed on presentation of the following ... 

Wastewater pretreaters that discharge water into sewer systems have new requirements. Pollutant standards for sewage sludge have been set. Toxics in the water must be identified and plans must be developed to alleviate any problems. In addition, regulators have established, and continue to establish, water-quality standards for priority toxic pollutants. 

Biosystems are remarkable systems for what they do. They can remove nitrogen, reduce phosphorous and remove it from wastewater, and destroy any wide variety of organic compounds by turning them into CO2 and water. However, they cannot create nor destroy matter. If you have toxics, you will need to handle the toxics in a pretreatment system or somehow dilute them down to the level where they can be treated. Metals are a particular problem because they bio accumulate even in bacterial systems. 

Wastewater treatment systems can be classified, in addition to pretreatment, as preliminary, primary, secondary, and tertiary (advanced) treatments. Pretreatment of industrial wastewater is required to prevent adverse effects on the municipal wastewater treatment plants. Preliminary treatment is considered as any physical or chemical process that precedes primary treatment. The preliminary treatment processes may consist of influent screening and grit removal. Its function is mainly to protect subsequent treatment units and to minimize operational problems. Primary treatment is defined as the physical or chemical treatment for the removal of settleable and floatable materials. The screened, degritted raw wastewater from preliminary treatment flows to the primary clarification tanks, which are part of the primary treatment facilities. Secondary wastewater treatment is the process that uses biological and chemical treatment to accomplish substantial removal of dissolved organics and colloidal materials. The secondary treatment facilities may be comprised of biological reactor and secondary clarification basins. Tertiary (advanced) wastewater treatment is used to achieve pollutant reductions by methods other than those used in primary and secondary treatments. The objective of tertiary wastewater treatment is to improve the overall removal of suspended solids, organic matter, dissolved solids, toxic substances, and nutrients. 

Biological treatment would seldom be selected as the primary means of treating a CMP wastewater, but it is useful to consider the fate and potential impacts of alumina, ceria, and silica particles in a biological wastewater treatment process. At many fabs, waste-water is pretreated and discharged to a municipal wastewater treatment system where dilute industrial waste effluents are combined with municipal sewage flows and treated in a biological wastewater treatment process. Some fabs have an onsite biological wastewater treatment process, but they are believed to be in the minority. 

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The inorganic characterization schedule for wastewaters to be treated using biological systems should include those tests which provide information concerning (/) potential toxicity, such as heavy metal, ammonia, etc (2) potential inhibitors, such as total dissolved soHds (TDS) and chlorides (J) contaminants requiring specific pretreatment such as pH, alkalinity, acidity, suspended soHds, etc and (4) nutrient availabiUty. 

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