Domestic Wastewater Treatment in Developing Countries

ISBN-13: 9781844070190 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 293 str.

Duncan Mara

Opis

Details methods of domestic wastewater treatment that are especially suitable in developing countries. The emphasis is on low-cost, low-energy, low-maintenance, high-performance systems that contribute to environmental sustainability by producing effluents that can be safely and profitably used in agriculture for crop irrigation and/or in aquaculture for fish and aquatic vegetable pond fertilization. waste stabilization ponds (WSPs), wastewater storage and treatment reservoirs, constructed wetlands, upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors, biofilters, aerated lagoons and oxidation ditches.

Spis treści

What is Domestic Wastewater and Why Treat It? * Excreta-related Diseases * Essential Microbiology and Biology * Effluent Quality * BOD Removal Kinetics * Domestic Wastewater Treatment Options * Domestic Wastewater Flows and Loads * Preliminary Treatment * Waste Stabilization Ponds (WSP) * Anaerobic Ponds * Facultative Ponds * Maturation Ponds * Physical Design of WSP * Operation and Maintenance of WSP * Monitoring and Evaluation of WSP * Wastewater Storage and Treatment Reservoirs * Constructed Wetlands * Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket Reactors * Biofiltration * Simple Activated Sludge Variants * Waste Re-use in Agriculture * Wastewater Re-use in Aquaculture * References

O autorze

Duncan Mara is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institute of Biology, the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management and the Royal Institute of Public Health. He is also Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Leeds and Visiting Professor at the Instituto Cinara, Universidad del Valle, Colombia.