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Showing 1 to 20 of 98 for “"Waste treatment"”.
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Modelling an SBR waste treatment system.
… in the past two decades with increasing use in wastewater treatment. However, there are still some important aspects of the system that need improvement. Modelling SBR system, developing lab methods for estimation of the model parameters, re-defining SBR design parameters and comparing SBR and …
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Evaluation of Alternative Waste Treatment Facilities
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T23:56:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6801861.pdf: 6392463 bytes, checksum: 8e540537324115b5609b356222a20dd4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1967
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Alternative Waste Treatment System for Poultry Processing Plants
… of this research was to design an alternative wastewater treatment system for turkey processing plants to recover energy and reduce N and P to allowable discharge levels. The objective included: 1. Determine the quantity and quality of biogas produced from the turkey processing wastewater (TPW) …
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Design of medical waste treatment systems employing bioremediation
… development of a system for disinfecting medical waste at the site of origin is presented. Investigation of the current commercial systems that accomplish this task shows that they all expose the waste to physical conditions that are harmful to all forms of life. Further, most are very expensive …
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Integrated optimization approach for plasma-based radioactive waste treatment process
… for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste treatment purposes. Traditional segregated optimization approaches fail to capture the complex multiphysical interactions between fluid flow, plasma behavior, and waste processing. The proposed framework couples computational fluid dynamics …
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The development of an ancillary textile industry waste treatment process
… to design the unit processes for treating the waste from a specific industrial plant using the best practicable technology, and (2) to critically examine the theory of these unit processes for utilization in design. The industrial waste was derived from a synthetic button and textile trimmings …
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Hazardous waste treatment and disposal: alternative technologies and groundwater impacts
… and biological methods for treating hazardous wastes and the fate of their land-disposed residues are reviewed and evaluated. Technologies are described as major, minor, and emerging according to their stage of development or application to hazardous waste; major ones include rotary kiln, …
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Utilization of a waste treatment lagoon as an energy source
… was used to investigate the utilization of a waste treatment lagoon as an energy source to heat swine housing. The investigation test procedure consisted of two main components: (1) the design and testing of a heating system using a solar assisted heat pump and (2) the development of a …
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Congressional Policy-Making and the Federal Waste Treatment Construction Grant Program
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Biochemical Aspects of Qualitative Shock Loading of Aerobic Waste Treatment Systems
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Comparative analysis of composting as a municipal solid waste treatment process in India
A study of composting municipal solid waste (MSW) in India compared a specific facility in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India to existing standards and practices documented in literature globally and in other facilities in India. The scope of this study included an analysis of issues in various …
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The development of process kinetics for a waste treatment system utilizing filamentous microorganisms
The capabilities of a biological waste treatment system designed to utilize filamentous microorganisms were defined in this study. Various chemical and physical tests such as pH, suspended solids, COD, BOD, sludge production, and oxygen utilization were used to determine the effects of parameters …
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Evaluation of shallow-placed low pressure distribution systems in soils marginally suited for on-site waste treatment
… marginally suited for a conventional on-site wastewater disposal system (OSWDS) because of low hydraulic conductivity and shallow depth of soil to bedrock. The soils used for this study were Edom (fine, illitic, mesic, Typic Hapludult) and Penn-Bucks soil (fine-loamy, mixed, mesic, ultic …
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Multiphysics modeling, study, and analysis of atmospheric pressure plasma-based mass separation system for high-level radioactive waste treatment
… and storing increasing High-Level Radioactive Waste (HLRW) volume is challenging and costly. Frequently, a large mass of this storage volume is low or non-radioactive elements. For high-level liquid waste, the total waste mass, if grouped into amu mass, 98.9% is for bulk elements with 1–65 amu, …
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Study of radio frequency inductively coupled thermal plasma torch (RF ICPT) for radioactive waste treatment: thermoplastics - polyethylene and polyvinyl chloride (PVC)
… many progresses made in effort for radioactive waste (RW) treatment and overall management, there is still no final and ever lasting solution. Among the many RW materials originating from nuclear power plants (NPPs), thermoplastics such as polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and polyethylene (PE) …
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Leaching behaviors of heavy metals on petroleum sludge waste treatment by using solidification/stabilization (s/s) method with palm oil fuel ash as partial cement replacement
… source of energy which also producing hazardous waste called sludge. Petroleum sludge is referring to the waste containing mixtures of high concentration of hydrocarbons and accumulated heavy metals which being recognized as a hazardous waste. Without improper disposal or insufficient treatment, …
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Sustainable development of an integrated solid waste and wastewater treatment.
This PhD thesis investigated solid and liquid waste treatment systems for Sureclean, a waste Management company based in the North of Scotland. Sureclean receives a diverse range of waste streams and the increasing need for sustainable development as well as stringent environmental legislation …
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An analysis of the costs involved in making a stream pollution survey
… one of the first steps in the determination of waste treatment requirements.
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Bacterial extracellular polymers and flocculation of activated sludges
… or bacterial flocculation in secondary waste treatment. The mechanisms responsible for this floc formation are thought to be polymer induced adsorption and interparticle bridging among bacterial cells or between bacterial cells and inorganic colloids. The efficiency of the processes …
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The Experiential Bridge: remedial landscape for Hanford's nuclear future
… issues particularly surrounding nuclear waste contamination and the risks that associated toxins present to human health and the existing ecosystem. The risk of exposure to radioactive materials and groundwater contamination can be reduced with proven technological methods but the public …
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