Water Quality and Wastewater Treatment

Process identification and parameter estimation has been applied in water quality and wastewater treatment systems (7-9). The overall oxygen transfer coefficient can be determined on-line. The hydraulic dispersion has been identified by manipulation of the influent flow rate or the return sludge flow rate (9). 

Eliminating the adverse impacts on water quality and wastewater treatment system performance is not the only benefit of neutralization. Acidic or alkaline wastewaters can be very corrosive. Thus, by neutralizing its wastewaters, a plant can protect its treatment units and associated piping. The major disadvantage of neutralization is that the chemicals used in the treatment process are often themselves corrosive and can be dangerous. 

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As a first approach it is assumed that an industrial closed water loop focuses on the production of one type of process water of a constant water quality and temperature. After this process water has been polluted and has become a wastewater, it will be treated to the required quality and will be used again as process water. In fact this is the simplest form of a closed loop water system. We will discuss this situation first. The first step in the design of such a simple closed loop water system is to consider the type of separate treatment steps and the sequence of these treatment steps which have to be applied on a wastewater stream that contains large amounts of easily biodegradable soluble pollutants in addition to non-biodegradable soluble organic and inorganic pollutants and suspended and colloidal particulate... 

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Wastewater reclamation was pioneered using advanced conventional treatment processes to upgrade the water quality of wastewater to reusable standards. When RO was first introduced to produce water closer to drinking water quality from wastewater, a conventional treatment process was employed as pretreatment to the RO. A typical conventional pretreatment configuration would include flocculation, lime or alum clarification, recarbonation, settling, filtration, and activated-carbon adsorption. Biological activity is controlled by chlorination. 

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While size reduction or blockage of pores may be considered to increase the resistance of the membrane (Rm) to permeate flux, accumulation of materials in the cake and concentration-polarization layers (so-called polarised solids) presents additional resistances to permeation (denoted here as R c and Rep respectively). These resistances var) as a function of the composition and thickness of each layer, which in turn are determined by the feed water quality and the characteristics of mass transfer in the membrane module. In most instances encountered in water and wastewater treatment, it appears that the concentration-polarisation layer, if it is formed, contributes negligible resistance to permeate flux i.e. Rep << Rc and, therefore. Rep may be neglected (Mallevialle et al (1996)). While this is in reality not always the case (as shown in later sections of this chapter and in Chapter 7) for the filtration of... 

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In this chapter the possibility of integrating different membrane unit operations in the same industrial cycle or in combination with conventional separation systems is analysed and discussed. Many original solutions in water desalination, agro-food productions and wastewater treatments are reviewed highlighting the advantages achievable in terms of product quality, compactness, rationalization and optimization of productive cycles, reduction of environmental impact and energy saving. 

New discoveries and principles of environmental microbiology can have vast potential in other areas of science such as biotechnology, pharmaceutics, biomedical research and engineering, the chemical and textile industries, bioremediation and waste-water treatment, pathogen control, mineral recovery, sustainable agriculture, and resource conservation. However, the majority of research in the applications for bioremediation, water quality, and the biotreatment of waste material and wastewater. 

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