In developing countries with large Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) sanitation indicator, pollutant discharge reduction function of wastewater treatment systems should be considered. In this paper, pollutant generations per capita (PGCs) and pollutant discharges per capita (PDCs) are estimated as a base dataset for wastewater management in Thailand. PDCs of black water, i.e. toilet wastewater, are found to be much smaller than PGCs of black water. However, PDCs of gray water, i.e. municipal wastewater other than toilet wastewater are large. Gray water is often discharged without treatment and contributes much to ambient water deterioration. Moreover, possible 5-day biological oxygen demand (BOD5) discharge reductions with “soft interventions”, i.e. measurements in households to reduce wastewater pollutant discharge such as using a paper filter or a plastic net in kitchen sinks and so on, are estimated as 39, 21 and 34% for BOD5, total Kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN) and phosphate (PO4-P), respectively. For the estimation, environmental accounting housekeeping (EAH) books of domestic wastewater, spreadsheets with pollutant discharges by water usages and possible effects of “soft interventions” are applied. The framework of this study with “soft intervention” effects on pollutant discharge reductions should enhance wastewater management especially in the areas under development of wastewater treatment systems.

PeCOD® is a patented technology that can determine COD by measuring photocurrent charges originating from oxidation of the organic contaminants present in a water sample. Three PeCOD® analyzer units were implemented at three different facilities, representative of key food and beverage sub-sectors–a winery, a bakery and a brewery–to undertake “real-time” measurement and analysis of effluent wastewater. These real-time COD analyzers were tested at each facility for a duration of 4-6...

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The effectiveness of In-Pipe Technology (IPT) patented sewer collection system engineered bioaugmentation on i) influent wastewater loads to wastewater treatment plant (WWTP), ii) WWTP performance, and iii) effluent quality, was a demonstrated at a domestic sequencing batch reactor (SBR) WWTP (Sewer District #20) in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York in collaboration with the Suffolk County Department of Public Works (SCDPW) and the New York State Energy Research Development Authority (NYSERDA). The...

A new method based on a dimensionless analysis of the BOD first order model is used to determine the model coefficients (k and L). Curves for the theoretical first order model for the first five days of BOD divided by the theoretical BOD5 for different k values are drawn. The experimental BOD1 through BOD5 are made dimensionless by dividing them with the experimental BOD5. These values are connected smoothly using cubic spline method and MATLAB. The area below these cubic spline equations is compared to the area...

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