Assessing Settleability of Dry and Wet Weather Flows in an Urban Area Serviced by Combined Sewers

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• 作者：Patrizia Piro ; Marco Carbone and Giovanni Tomei
• 关键词：Combined sewerage ; Dry weather flow ; Wet weather flow ; Settling column tests ; Treatment efficiency ; Total suspended solids removal ; Sedimentation tanks
• 刊名：Water, Air, and Soil Pollution
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：January 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：214
• 期：1-4
• 页码：107-117
• 全文大小：407.3 KB

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Settleability of dry and wet weather flow samples from a combined sewer system was examined by settling column tests, in order to improve understanding of settling processes and obtain information for design of settling tanks. In fact, these tests mimic the actual settling processes and allow evaluating total suspended solids (TSS) removal by settling. Therefore, it is also possible to assess, indirectly, removals of other pollutants, such as heavy metals, which are generally transported by solid particles in sewage. Towards this end, dry and wet weather flow samples were collected in the Liguori Channel catchment and analyzed in the laboratory for Water Supply and Sewerage (Acquedotti e Fognature) of the University of Calabria for TSS concentrations according to the Standard Methods. The settleability study revealed that removals of TSS in dry weather samples (i.e., sanitary sewage) were greater than in wet weather samples (WW), using the same experimental procedures. In particular, 65 % of TSS was removed in dry weather samples at a depth of 3 m for a detention time of 40 min; while in wet weather samples the comparable removal efficiency was less than 60 % .