DESIGN OF FACILITIES FOR PHYSICAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT

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IDENTIFICATION
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A device with openings, generally of uniform size, that is used to retain the coarse solid found in
wastewater
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Used for screening devices consisting of perforated plates, wedge wire elements, and wire cloth.
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Bar Racks have clear openings between____inches bars of or larger.
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Frequently used ahead of pumps.
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Imitates the movements of a person raking the rack
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Also called sewage grinders
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The first machine to address the problems of reducing solids directly inline.
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Are relatively small, with total volume based on 3-min retention at maximum flow.
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Is normally used to create the mixing pattern grit chambers
10. The settled grit is normally removed with a _______and buried in a landfill.
11. The process of controlling hydraulic velocity, or flow rate, through a wastewater treatment system.
12. Axial mixers can further be subdivided into other categories, the most common of which are ________
and
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14. The volume calculated based on the _________is the theoretical volume.
15. A tank which allows suspended particles to settle out of water or wastewater as it flows slowly through the
tank, thereby providing some degree of purification.
16. The main difference between primary and secondary clarifiers.
17. The theoretical time wastewater is held in a clarifier.
18. Also known as weir overflow rate, is the number of gallons of water passing over a foot of weir per day.
19. A factor expressed in terms of flow per surface area.
20. A tank with diameters that ranges from 25 to 150 feet.

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Screens with 0.09 to 0.25 inch openings remove 20 % of influent solids.
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In cable-driven bar racks maintenance problems related to slack cables and fouled cable reels is a major
disadvantage.
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Bar racks consists of vertical or inclined bars spaced at equal intervals (usually 2-5 in.)
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Screening removes the smallest materials from the influent wastewater stream
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An Aerated Grit Chamber offers a high-cost but mechanically simple way to remove grit from a wastewater
stream.
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The water-lift pump option is particularly advantageous since the air supply needed for operation of the
aerated grit chamber is already in place.
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Pumps are often employed in equalization basins to achieve homogeneity in and to aerate the wastewater.
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The speed ranges for both portable and fixed mounted propeller mixers are 1750 rpm and 350420 rpm,
respectively.
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The high speed of propeller provides a low degree of shear with high draft velocity
10. As a general rule, square or rectangular tanks are more efficient in achieving proper mixing than circular
tanks.
11. A typical plant may have clarifiers located at two different points
12. Inlets to rectangular tanks will be designed so as to allow channeling of wastewater in the tank.
13. Detention time is commonly specified as 4 hours for primary tanks serving all types of plants except when
preceding an activated sludge system.
14. You can expect wastewater to have a pH of about 5 to 7 depending on the region, water supply and wastes
discharged into the collection system
15. If sludge is allowed to remain in the tank it tends to gasify and the entire sludge blanket (depth) may rise
to the water surface in the clarifier.

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ENUMERATION
1-4 Mechanically cleaned bar racks
6-9 Ways of Disposing Screenings
10-13 Types of Comminutors
14-19 Design Procedure for Aerated Grit chamber
20-24 Factors to consider in basin construction of flow equalization tank
25-30 Factors Affecting Clarifier Efficiency

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Screening
Screens
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Hand cleaned bar racks
reciprocating rake type bar rack
Comminutors
In-line Comminutors
Aerated grit chambers
Diffused Air
Continuous screw
Flow equalization
Propeller mixer
Turbine mixer
hydrograph method
Sedimentaton Tank
Density of sludge handled
Detention Time
Weir loading
Surface Hydraulic Load
Circular Tank

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Matching Type

Enumeration
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Chain-operated
Reciprocating rake
Catenary
Cable driven
Removal of hauling to disposal areas

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Disposal by burial on the plant site

Incineration
Disposal with municipal solid wastes
Discharge to grinders or mascerators
In-line Comminutors
Dual Shaft Comminutors
In-line Shaft-less Design
Hi-Flow Twin Shaft Grinder
Calculating the peak flow
Calculating the volume of the grit chamber
Calculating the dimensions of the aeration basin.
Determining the air-supply requirement
Computing the quantity (volume) of grit.
Checking for surface overflow rate (SOR).
basin geometry
basin construction including cleaning, access, and

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safety;
mixing and air requirements;
operational appurtenances
pump and pump control systems.
Types of solids in the wastewater.
Age (time in collection system) of wastewater when

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it reaches the plant

Rate of wastewater flow as compared to design flow.
Mechanical conditions and cleanliness of clarifier.
Proper sludge withdrawal
Suspended solids