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Enhancement of the Wastewater Effluent Quality by Alum Sludge

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Environmental chemistry

Abstract

The Alum sludge produced from drinking water purification plants represents a burden in its disposal for several reasons, including the quantities and contents, in another track, the influent of wastewater treatment plants with a large organic load that must be reduced to improve treatment and the specifications of the effluent wastewater, BOD (Biochemical Oxygen Demand) and COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand) and TSS (Total Suspended Solid) are the main organic loads that present in domestic wastewater. This study aims to investigate the efficiency of chemical treatment of wastewater using dried Alum sludge, hence solving these two environmental problems by using dried Alum sludge to treat the effluent of wastewater plants and enhance its quality. Two different wastewater treatment plants were selected to investigate the efficiency of chemical treatment with Alum sludge. Raw wastewater samples were treated with dried slurry at 1050C. The results showed the reduction efficiency in the Ramla and El-Hawamidia wastewater plants ranging from 97% to 81% for different wastewater pollutants. These results confirmed the potentiality of Alum Sludge from water plants for future application in wastewater treatments.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2024.281504.9554

Keywords

wastewater treatment plant, total suspended solids, Chemical Oxygen Demand, Biochemical oxygen demand, Alum sludge

Authors

First Name

Nesrin

Last Name

Abdel-Rahman

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Affiliation

Ain Shams University, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Environmental Research, Environmental Basic Science Department, Cairo, Egypt

Email

nesrin.abdelrahman@hcww.com.eg

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First Name

Mostafa

Last Name

Khalil

MiddleName

M.H.

Affiliation

Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Abbassia,11566, Cairo, Egypt

Email

khalil62@yahoo.com

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Orcid

0000-0002-8031-2447

First Name

M. A. S.

Last Name

Mehany

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Water and Sanitation Safety Plan Director, Holding Company for Water and Wastewater, Egypt,

Email

mahmoud.abdelrahman@hcww.com.eg

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Orcid

0000-0002-7291-515X

Volume

67

Article Issue

11

Related Issue

50157

Issue Date

2024-11-01

Receive Date

2024-04-06

Publish Date

2024-11-01

Page Start

533

Page End

542

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_353524.html

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=353524

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353,524

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Original Article

Type Code

297

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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

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Enhancement of the Wastewater Effluent Quality by Alum Sludge

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Created At

30 Dec 2024