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Water sewage

There are many contaminants in the sewage water such as animal waste, and oil and grease.
And these contaminants increase the pollution for the water and the parameters that refer to
that are (BOD, COD, and TSS).

In the past the water resources was contributing in cleaning the sewage water where the
sewage system ends. We was doing this because the self-purification using algae. But the rapidly
increasing in population makes this impossible to stay in this habit because of the leaked in
oxygen dissolved in water which is used to destroy the organic materials that causes to kill the
aquatic animals and distribute stink smell.

Therefore it has been necessary to create something that solve the problem cause by sewage
water before pouring it in the water resources and causes dangerous to environment and these
are sewage water systems.

And due to development in the world it has been found many levels for treatment the sewage
water according to use of produced water like for agriculture, industrial, human or drinking. So
for every use there are standard properties for water.

Household water has very much oil and grease, and these go to the sewage water system and
we cannot pour it in the environment because it is dangerous and causes diseases for humans
and animals. The contaminants in the sewage pipes solidify if it remains for a long time and
causes stricture to the pipes, so it create anaerobic circumstances and consequently causes stink
smell and poisoning for water milieu. The most important problems that we have face in the
treatment plant are:

1- It forms a surface that prevents gas swap with surrounding environment, so it causes
decrease of oxygen remaining in the wastewater and that affects to the efficiency of the
sewage treatment plant.
2- Oil and greases adhere to the equipment of the plant like pumps, filters and pipes.

So it is important to separate these materials from sewage water before going into sewage
water system and then we treatment them to produce raw materials to be able for using in
industries.

The principle ways to treatment the sewage water depends on:

a- The method of treatment of wastewater depends on the way of biology part of the
sewage water system, such as :
1- Activated sludge process: This is the most distribution methods in
the world.
2- Natural pounds: we have discussed previous which is done by
(anaerobic pounds, facultative pounds, maturation pounds
b- Every sewage water system contains of:
1. Line for water treatment
2. Line for sludge treatment
Sometimes the treatment unit contains the both part built-in.
c- We do not consider that the treatment unit has done its mission until it treatments its
waste completely or relatively safe.
d- The treatment of sewage water system is induction to the process done in the water
resources i.e. self-purification using algae.
e- Removing the contaminants from sewage water depends on the nature and type of
contaminant

As we read before the most important decision that the designer engineer face is the chosen of
the method of the treatment according to:

- Productivity of plant
- Constable of plant
- Requirements of surrounding environment.

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