Treatment of waste sludges from water purification plants

dc.contributor.authorKing, Paul H.en
dc.contributor.authorBugg, Henry M.en
dc.contributor.authorOlver, John W.en
dc.contributor.authorArgo, David G.en
dc.contributor.departmentVirginia Water Resources Research Centeren
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-25T20:16:46Zen
dc.date.available2014-02-25T20:16:46Zen
dc.date.issued1972-09en
dc.description.abstractAccelerated interest in water pollution control has led to increased concern about a wide variety of polluting substances. One of these is the waste sludge from water treatment plants. A frequent practice is to discharge these wastes, without treatment, into the nearest available watercourse. There are two major reasons for this expediency. First, state anti-pollution agencies have, until recently, expressed little concern about these discharges, and second, little work has been done to demonstrate the available methods for treatment, dewatering, and ultimate disposal of these sludges. The primary objective of this research was to study in detail possible methods for concentration, dewatering, and ultimate disposal of various types of water treatment plant sludges resulting from conventional processes. The use of newly-developed synthetic organic polyelectrolytic coagulant aids was investigated as a pretreatment method in combination with both open sand bed drying and vacuum filtration. The suitability of the dried product for ultimate disposal as landfill was evaluated.en
dc.description.notesOWRR Project A-030 VAen
dc.format.extent31 pagesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.oclc841533en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/25707en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherWater Resources Research Center, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesBulletin (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Water Resources Research Center) ; 52en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject.lccTD201 .V58en
dc.subject.lcshWater treatment plant residues -- Purificationen
dc.titleTreatment of waste sludges from water purification plantsen
dc.typeReporten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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