Reclamation and reuse programs are an indispensable part of integrated water resource management, particularly in arid and semi arid regions. Yet, the feasibility of sustainable application not only is relied on design, operation and maintenance of wastewater treatment plants, but also could be influenced by the economical and environmental aspects of reuse demands. This study is aimed to illus...

Wastewater Treatment Plant Design Advisor (WASDA) is an interactive computer system that could support users for designing wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) construction facilities. It is consisting of computation tools and information management capabilities, developed to aid decision makers especially engineers in solving problem on wastewater treatment process. For design purposes, WASDA can...

In 1990, the private company Aquafin was founded and assigned with the task of the design, construction, operation and financing of the necessary infrastructure for sewage treatment. One of the challenges Aquafin is facing now is to upgrade the patrimonium of old municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). These plants need to be retrofitted towards strict phosphorus and nitrogen removal con...

In this paper, physicochemical characterization and analysis of total metal concentration of greases and wastewater samples from two wastewater treatment plants in the North of Morocco, Tangier and Tetouan, were carried out. The samples were taken in the winter period of the year 2011-2012. For two case studies of wastewater treatment plants in Tangier and Tetouan (WWTPTG and WWTP-TT), waste so...

In the 21st century the fresh water scarcity increased very rapidly due to the urbanization and industrialization process. In these conditions the urban wastewater plays an important role in the water usage criteria. In this aspect, in all the major cities, wastewater treatment plants have been constructed to treat the urban wastewater in view of decreasing the water scarcity. The presence of n...

This paper discusses a methodology to estimate the costs and benefits of advanced control for wastewater treatment plants. The methodology has been applied to four wastewater treatment plants, representing four standard types of plants built in Flanders, Belgium. The paper outlines the methodology and illustrated results from one of the four design cases. General results are shown and contraste...