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Municipal Water Supply: Sources and Quality

Water Quantity and Intake Details

Unit Processes in Municipal Water Treatment

Home Water Treatment
Lecture
Municipal Water Treatment Plant Design Details Quiz The raw sewage must be treated before it is discharged into the riv
Design Example extent of treatment required to be given depends not only upon the
and quality of the sewage but also upon the source of disposal,
Water Storage Tanks and Distribution Network
capacity to tolerate the impurities present in the sewage effluents
getting potentially polluted.
Rural Water Supply
  The layout of conventional wastewater treatment plant is as follows:
Municipal Wastewater Quantity and Quality

Municipal Wastewater Collection and Treatment Philosophy

Layout and Design of Municipal Sewers ()

Sewer Appurtenances, Sump-well and Sewage Pumping

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Wastewater Treatment Philosophy ()

Indian Standards for discharge of sewage in surface waters are given in the table be
Preliminary and Primary Wastewater Treatment
Indian Standards for Discharge of Sewage in Surface Waters

Secondary Wastewater Treatment Characteristic of the Tolerance limit for Discharge of Sewage in
Effluent Suface Water Sources
Tertiary and Advanced Treatment
BOD5 20 mg/L
Residuals Management TSS 30 mg/L

Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant Design Details
Treated Effluent Disposal
Natural Methods of Wastewater Treatment
The unit operations and processes commonly employed in domestic wastewater
their functions and units used to achieve these functions are given in the following ta
Unit Operations/Processes, Their Functions and Units Used for Domestic Wast
Treatment

Unit
Hygiene and Sanitation in Rural/Semi-Rural Areas Functions Treatment Device
Operations/Processes
Screening Removal of large floating, Bar racks and screens of v
suspended and settleable description
solids
Grit Removal Removal of inorganic Grit chamber
  suspended solids
Primary Removal of Primary sedimentation ta
Sedimentation organic/inorganic
settleable solids
Aerobic Biological Conversion of colloidal, Activated sludge process u
Suspended Growth dissolved and residual and its modifications, Wa
Process suspended organic matter stabilisation ponds, Aerat
into settleable biofloc and lagoons
stable inorganics
Aerobic Biological same as above Trickling filter, Rotating b
Attached Growth contactor
Process
Anaerobic biological Conversion of organic Anaerobic filter, Fluid bed
growth processes matter into CH4 & CO2 and submerged media anaero
relatively stable organic reactor, Upflow anaerobic
residue blanket reactor, Anaerobi
t ti g bi l gi l t
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