State-of-the-Art in Managing Sludge Settling Problems for Some Treatment Plants in the United States

Dintie Shaibu Mahamah

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State-of-the-Art in Managing Sludge Settling Problems for Some Treatment Plants in the United States

Dintie Shaibu Mahamah

Published in American Journal of Biological and Environmental Statistics (Volume 1, Issue 2)

Received: 16 May 2016 Accepted: 22 June 2016 Published: 18 September 2016

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Abstract

Foaming and bulking in secondary mixed liquor particularly in activated sludge waste water treatment plants is a growing problem. The efficiency of secondary waste water treatment is critically dependent on the separation of the supernatant liquids from the sludge. Bulking and foaming primarily make it very difficult or impossible to achieve effective separation, thus reducing the treatment efficiency. The study is part of an ongoing effort by practitioners to understand and quantify the extent of the problems of foaming and bulking. The study presents a survey of some waste water plants in the northwest United States, and the results of statistical analysis in search of linkages between operating characteristics and settling problems.

Published in	American Journal of Biological and Environmental Statistics (Volume 1, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajbes.20150102.13
Page(s)	58-65
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Activated Sludge, Foaming, Bulking, Secondary Treatment, Settling, Flocs

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Dintie Shaibu Mahamah. State-of-the-Art in Managing Sludge Settling Problems for Some Treatment Plants in the United States. Am J Biol Environ Stat. 2016;1(2):58-65. doi: 10.11648/j.ajbes.20150102.13

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Dintie Shaibu Mahamah

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