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  2. List of largest wastewater treatment plants - Wikipedia

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    Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant [9] Washington D.C. USA: 1937 1 450 000 4 073 000 0.62 Secondary treatment since 1959. Enhanced nutrient removal in 2014. Deer Island Waste Water Treatment Plant: Boston USA: 1968 1 438 000 4 542 000 0.6 [10] Full secondary treatment since 1995. Abu Rawash Wastewater treatment plant Giza Egypt ...

  3. Water treatment - Wikipedia

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    Dalecarlia Water Treatment Plant, Washington, D.C. Water treatment is any process that improves the quality of water to make it appropriate for a specific end-use. The end use may be drinking, industrial water supply, irrigation, river flow maintenance, water recreation or many other uses, including being safely returned to the environment.

  4. Backwashing (water treatment) - Wikipedia

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    In water treatment plants, backwashing can be an automated process that is run by local programmable logic controllers (PLCs). The backwash cycle is triggered after a set time interval, when the filter effluent turbidity is greater than a treatment guideline or when the differential pressure ( head loss ) across the filter exceeds a set value.

  5. Sewage treatment - Wikipedia

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    Sewage treatment (or domestic wastewater treatment, municipal wastewater treatment) is a type of wastewater treatment which aims to remove contaminants from sewage to produce an effluent that is suitable to discharge to the surrounding environment or an intended reuse application, thereby preventing water pollution from raw sewage discharges. [2]

  6. Mixed liquor suspended solids - Wikipedia

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    Mixed liquor suspended solids (MLSS) is the concentration of suspended solids, in an aeration tank during the activated sludge process, which occurs during the treatment of waste water. The units MLSS is primarily measured in milligram per litre (mg/L), but for activated sludge its mostly measured in gram per litre [g/L] which is equal to ...

  7. Wastewater treatment - Wikipedia

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    Sewage treatment plant (a type of wastewater treatment plant) in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Wastewater treatment is a process which removes and eliminates contaminants from wastewater. It thus converts it into an effluent that can be returned to the water cycle. Once back in the water cycle, the effluent creates an acceptable impact on the environment.

  8. Thomas P. Smith Water Reclamation Facility - Wikipedia

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    The 1.2 million-gallon-per-day plant takes a portion of the treated wastewater bound for the City's Southeast Farm facility and adds additional treatment so the reclaimed water can be used for irrigation purposes in public areas.

  9. Industrial wastewater treatment - Wikipedia

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    An industrial wastewater treatment plant may include one or more of the following rather than the conventional treatment sequence of sewage treatment plants: An API oil-water separator, for removing separate phase oil from wastewater. [43]: 180 A clarifier, for removing solids from wastewater. [44]: 41–15