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Land Infiltration for Wastewater Treatment As Efficient, Simple, And Low Techniques: An Overview

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Environmental chemistry

Abstract

Soil infiltration systems for wastewater treatment require very low energy and maintenance. They are very efficient, cost-effective, low energy consumption, as well as low construction techniques. They have been widely implemented all-over the world particularly for on-site, in remote areas, and in small communities. Currently, groundwater is in concern shortage worldwide due to the significant increasing and continuous withdrawn. It has been proved that soil wastewater infiltration system (SWWIS) is considering as an important on-site wastewater treatment, and as an alternative process for advanced wastewater treatment in terms of efficiency and operation and maintenance. In this systems, wastewater should be treated firstly by conventional physical/chemical or biological treatment followed by infiltration through aerated and unsaturated zone. In these infiltration systems the wastewaters are purified through several steps including physical adsorption, chemical reaction, and biodegradation. SWWIS's have exhibited an excellent and consistent capacity with respect to decomposing of organic contaminants, as indicated by chemical oxygen demands (COD) and biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5). Meanwhile, it is efficient in removing all the microbial contaminants as well. The challenge factors of the SWWIS are the clogging problem as well as the removal of phosphorous, and the nitrogen.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2021.82437.4062

Keywords

infiltration for wastewater treatment, Wastewater infiltration, infiltration percolation, Factors affecting wastewater infiltration, groundwater Artificial Recharge

Authors

First Name

Hussein

Last Name

Abdel-Shafy

MiddleName

Ibrahim

Affiliation

Water Research & Pollution Control Department, National Research Center, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt

Email

hshafywater@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-3381-2617

First Name

Mona

Last Name

Mansour

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Analysis and Evaluation Department, Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute, 1 Ahmed El-Zomor Street, Nasr City Cairo. Egypt.

Email

waterbiotech@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

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Volume

65

Article Issue

4

Related Issue

29683

Issue Date

2022-04-01

Receive Date

2021-06-25

Publish Date

2022-04-01

Page Start

617

Page End

631

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_199115.html

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444

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Land Infiltration for Wastewater Treatment As Efficient, Simple, And Low Techniques: An Overview

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22 Jan 2023