Descriptive and multivariate analyses of four Tunisian wastewater treatment plants: A comparison between different treatment processes and their efficiency improvement.

Abstract:

:This study was undertaken to evaluate the performance of four wastewater treatment plants/processes over a 4 year period. The wastewater flow evolution, energy consumption, and quality indicator parameters (BOD5, COD and TSS) at the inlet and outlet sites of the plants were determined. In comparing three domestic WWTPs with different wastewater treatment processes, the multivariate analyses (RDA and ANOVA) showed that although the Agareb plant received the highest pollution load, it displayed a high level of removal efficiency especially for COD, BOD, TSS, TKN and NH4+. It also revealed that the fluctuations in the wastewater composition and its contamination by varied industrial discharge could lead to the decrease in performance of the WWTP with activated sludge process as observed for the Southern Sfax plant. However, the electrolysis of the outlet water of Southern Sfax plant showed a significant improvement in COD removal.

journal_name

J Environ Manage

authors

Boujelben I,Samet Y,Messaoud M,Ben Makhlouf M,Maalej S

doi

10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.11.023

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2017-02-01 00:00:00

pages

63-70

eissn

0301-4797

issn

1095-8630

pii

S0301-4797(16)30899-4

journal_volume

187

pub_type

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