The concentration of biochemical oxygen demand, BOD5, was studied in order to evaluate the water quality of the Igapó I Lake, in Londrina, Paraná State, Brazil. The simulation was conducted by means of the discretization in curvilinear coordinates of the geometry of Igapó I Lake, together with finite difference and finite element methods. The evaluation of the proposed numerical model for water...

The study was conducted in 2013/14 with the objective of determining the effects of Bahir Dar textile factory effluents on the head of Blue Nile River water quality. Dissolve oxygen was higher at the upstream site of the river, whereas BOD5, TDS, and total alkalinity values were higher at wastewater outlet of the factory site. The mean values of dissolved oxygen, BOD5, and total alkalinity were...

On-line monitoring of wastewater parameters is a major scientific and technical challenge because of the great variability of wastewater characteristics and the extreme physical-chemical conditions that endure the sensors. Wastewater treatment plant managers require fast and reliable information about the input sewage and the operation of the different treatment stages. There is a great need fo...

Many potato processors require on-farm washing of potatoes, creating large quantities of wastewater that requires treatment, starting in the fall until the end of the potato storage period in mid-summer. We studied the treatment of wastewater from a potato farm in Ontario, Canada, using a system of pretreatment (sedimentation, aeration) followed by a surface-flow wetland with a dense growth of ...

Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD5) and Chemical (COD) are the most commonly parameters for characterization of organic matter content water. Correlation between BOD5 COD different types water can provide relevant information about nature pollution, its level biodegradability. This correlation could also be used to assess quality effluent after treatment processes, improve performance wastewater p...

In this study, dewatered alum sludge cakes were used as substrate in a laboratory scale tidal vertical flow reed bed system treating animal farm wastewater. Tidal flow operation was employed to enhance oxygen transfer into the system while dewatered alum sludge cake was used to enhance phosphorus (P) removal through ligand exchange. Except for the removal of P which was consistently high throug...

Comparing other methods of waste water treatment, constructed wetlands are one of the most fascinating practices because being a natural process they are eco-friendly have low construction and maintenance cost and have considerable capability of wastewater treatment. The current research was focused mainly on comparison of Ranunculus muricatus and Typha latifolia as wetland plants for domestic ...

A novel wastewater treatment technology, suitable for centralised and decentralised wastewater treatment and known as a pumped flow biofilm reactor (PFBR), has been developed and patented in the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway). This two-reactor-tank technology has been extensively tested at laboratory-scale and trialled at a number of sites for populations ranging from 15 – ...

Treatment of starch wastewater was investigated in a 30 l capacity pilot scale anaerobic baffled reactor (ABR) under mesophillic conditions. The reactor was operated at different hydraulic retention times (HRTs) of 72; 48 and 24 h. Corresponding organic loading rates (OLRs) were 8.7; 7.6 and 22 kg COD/m 3 . d. The results showed that COD and BOD5 removals exceeded 40 and 50% respectively at OLR...