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Book SynopsisThis book emphasizes the growing interest in the design and operation of large wastewater treatment plants throughout the past decades. The outstanding role of LWWTPs nowadays results from the shift of the world’s population from rural to urbanized areas with centralized sewer systems. The urban population of the world has grown rapidly from 751 million in 1950 to 4.2 billion in 2018. Asia is home to 54% of the world’s urban population, followed by Europe and Africa with 13% each. Today, 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 68% by 2050. Projections show that urbanization, combined with the overall growth of the world’s population could add another 2.5 billion people to urban areas by 2050, with close to 90% of this increase taking place in Asia and Africa. Topics covered in this book include operational data and research centred around large-scale applications of innovative technologies and approaches; topics connected with the design and operation of LWWTPs, such as data acquisition for design purposes, application of mathematical models, nitrogen removal optimization and financial sustainability. Emerging topics of interest are also examined, such as the removal of micropollutants and microplastics, greenhouse gas emissions, activated sludge granulation and the effect of street thawing salt on plants. In Focus – a book series that showcases the latest accomplishments in water research. Each book focuses on a specialist area with papers from top experts in the field. It aims to be a vehicle for in-depth understanding and inspire further conversations in the sector.
Table of ContentsEditorial: Design, operation and economics of large wastewater treatment plants Jörg Krampe, Norbert Jardin, Vanessa Parravicini, Jiri Wanner and Miklos Patziger 50 years of design and operation of large wastewater treatment plant conferences. A history of innovation and development H. Kroiss, N. Matsché and J. Krampe The development in biological wastewater treatment over the last 50 years Jiří Wanner Effect of sewage sampling frequency on determination of design parameters for municipal wastewater treatment plants T. Gehring, E. Deineko, I. Hobus, G. Kolisch, M. Lübken and M. Wichern Commissioning of the new water line of the Central wastewater treatment plant in Prague and its impact on the operation of the existing water line J. Wanner, J. Rosický, J. Kovařík, M. Srb, M. Lánský and P. Sýkora Inducing granulation within a full-scale activated sludge system to improve settling Isaac Avila, Dan Freedman, Joel Johnston, Blair Wisdom and James McQuarrie Influence of road salt thawing peaks on the inflow composition and activated sludge properties in municipal wastewater treatment J. Tauber, B. Flesch, V. Parravicini, K. Svardal and J. Krampe Improving wastewater treatment plant performance by applying CFD models for design and operation: selected case studies M. Patziger Use of three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics model for a new configuration of circular primary settling tank A. G. Griborio, J. A. Rodríguez, L. Enriquez and J. A. McCorquodale Model assisted identification of N2O mitigation strategies for full-scale reject water treatment plants M. Beier, I. Feldkämper and A. Freyschmidt A module-based approach for elimination of organic micropollutants at wastewater treatment plants Burkhard Teichgräber, Peter Jagemann, Martin Hetschel, Antje Bechtel and Linh-Con Phan Degradation of micropollutant cephalexin by ultraviolet (UV) and assessment of residual antimicrobial activity of transformation products Sabrina Grando Cordeiro, Rafaela Ziem, Ytan Andreine Schweizer, Bruna Costa, Daniel Kuhn, Peterson Haas, Ani Caroline Weber, Daiane Heidrich, Eduardo Miranda Ethur, Clarice Steffens and Lucélia Hoehne Determination of large microplastics: wet-sieving of dewatered digested sludge, co-substrates, and compost Larissa Schwinghammer, Steffen Krause and Christian Schaum
