WASTEWATER TREATMENT

PROCESS AND THE

IMPORTANCE

NOR UBAIDIHA BINTI MOHD HASAN

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CIVIL ENGINEERING
Will you dare to use it without
treatment??
 OBJECTIVES
• To give information and elaboration on
how the wastewater treatment process.

• To expose about the importance of

wastewater treatment process
 WASTEWATER??
Figure 2 : Sample of sewerage

• “Used” water deposited

into drains by domestic
(residents and businesses )

• Down the sink or toilet and

travels through
underground pipes
(sanitary sewer system)

• A mixture of domestic
sewage
WASTEWATER TREATMENT FLOW DIAGRAM
Collection

Preliminary treatment

Primary treatment

Secondary treatment

Tertiary treatment /
Disinfection

Clean water discharged to

the water stream
 1. Collection
Figure 1 : Sample of domestic sewerage
• Sewer system is
completely gravity
powered

• Sewer mains flow

into progressively
larger pipes until
they reach the
wastewater
treatment plant.
 2. Preliminary treatment
Figure 3 : Bar screen used in preliminary
treatment
• Bar screen to remove large
solid objects (sticks and
rags)

• Grit tank to allow sand,

gravel, other material that
not to be caught by the bar
screen to settle to the
bottom.

• Debris is disposed of at a
sanitary landfill or
recycled.
 3. Primary treatment
Figure 4 : primary settling tank

Figure 5 : primary sedimentation tank

primary settling tank
and primary
sedimentation tank :
• physical separation of
solids and greases

• solid particles of
organic material are
removed
 4. Secondary treatment
Figure 6 : Aeration tank
• Biological treatment
process

• Removes dissolved
organic material and
suspended organic
solids

• In aeration tank
5. Tertier treatment / Disinfection
Figure 7 : UV Radiation Instrument

• Chlorine and ultraviolet

disinfection are the most
widely used

• Disinfection using
chlorine to reduce
pathogens.

• Exposing contaminated
water to radiation from
UV light
 6. Discharged
• Treated water discharged

• To the water stream

• Safe for rivers

• Safe for aquatic organisms

IMPORTANCE OF WASTEWATER
TREATMENT PROCESS
Eliminating the discharge of
pollutants

Obtaining water quality

removes physical, chemical and

biological contaminants
CONCLUSION
• Wastewater treatment process
i. Collection
ii. Preliminary treatment
iii. Primary treatment
iv. Secondary treatment
v. Tertiary treatment /
Disinfection
vi. Clean water discharged to the
water stream

• The importance of wastewater

treatment process
 Eliminating the discharge of
pollutants
 Obtaining water quality
 removes physical, chemical
and biological contaminants
– Wastewater Engineering Treatment and Reuse
Metcalf & Eddy, Fourth Edition, Mc Graw Hill
– http://www.ordainternational.org/pages/water.html
– http://
www.ci.gillette.wy.us/util/StonepileSelectCompost.p
df
– http://www.regulatorystaff.sc.gov/
– http://ezinearticles.com/?Importance-of-Wastewater
-Treatment&id
=734605
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Q & A SESSION