As a modern metropolis, Shanghai has a registered population of 18.8 million in 2011, and the permanent population has been more than 20 million. As a result, Shanghai produces more than 6.3 million cubic meters of sewage per day which is considered as a massive test for Shanghai’s sewerage treatment system. Given the high proportion of time spent on the literature review, this study has investigated how the whole system works in Shanghai. To do this, Shanghai sewerage systems were divided into two parts – the drainage system and the sewage treatment system, and they were introduced respectively following the track of history development process. It was done by combining previously published theses, study reports, governmental documents, overt information by companies and news reports. It showed that, in 2009, Shanghai’s government established a basic formation of six centralized sewage treatment systems in co-existence with 52 sewage treatment plants. In the same year, the sewage treatment rate reached 78.9%, which can be considered a leap compared with the 62.8% figure in 2003. In spite of that, the gap between sewage treatment in Shanghai and that in developed countries still exists. By comparing Shanghai Bai Longgang sewage treatment plant with Halmstad Västra Stranden's waste water treatment plant, it can be concluded that the gap was embodied in differences of inflow condition, relative low discharge standards and poor treatment capability.

Trots att avloppsreningsverkens primära syfte är att minska människans påverkan på miljön genom att bland annat reducera halten näringsämnen i vattnet bidrar de samtidigt till den ökande växthuseffekten. FN:s klimatpanel pekar ut avloppsreningsverk som en signifikant källa till direkt emission av lustgas och metan och det sker även indirekta emissioner uppströms och nedströms reningsverket. Samtidigt som diskussionen om klimatpåverkan från avloppsreningsverk växer är många recipienter hårt belastade och nu väntas en skärpning av utsläppsvillkoren för att minska tillförseln av näringsämnen till de naturliga vattensystemen. Studier har visat att skärpta utsläppsvillkor ökar klimatpåverkan från avloppsreningsverk. Två miljöproblem, övergödning och klimatförändringar, står mot varandra och måste värderas för att framtidens avloppsrening ska kunna planeras. Syftet var att undersöka hur klimatpåverkan från avloppsreningsverk påverkas av teknikval och utsläppsvillkor. Simuleringsverktyget BioWin användes för att beräkna koldioxidavtryck från Enköpings framtida avloppsreningsverk. Tre olika processtekniker (aktivslamprocessen, membranbioreaktor och aktivslamprocessen med biologisk fosforreduktion) och sju olika utsläppsvillkor studerades. I beräkningarna togs hänsyn till både direkta och indirekta emissioner genom bland annat lustgasproduktion, kemikalieförbrukning och användning av el. Den konventionella aktivslamprocessen orsakade minst koldioxidavtryck medan avtrycket från den moderna membranbioreaktorn var överlägset störst. En skärpning av utsläppsvillkoren för kväve och fosfor gav en ökning av koldioxidavtrycket med upp till 55 % och det var speciellt kvävekravet som styrde ökningen. Då utsläppsvillkoren skärptes ökade avtrycket mest från membranbioreaktorn vilket indikerar att den ur klimatsynpunkt lämpar sig sämre vid skärpta utsläppsvillkor. Lustgasemission stod för den största delen av koldioxidavtrycket. Lustgasemissionen ökade vid skärpta utsläppsvillkor samt då kvävereningen stördes, exempelvis vid låga vattentemperaturer. Fler komponenter bör tas i åtanke vid utvärdering av miljöpåverkan från ett avloppsreningsverk, exempelvis övergödning. Detta skulle göra det möjligt att bedöma den totala miljövinsten, eller förlusten, med att skärpa villkoren. / Although the primary aim for wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) is to minimize the environmental impact by reducing the content of nutrients in the wastewater, they also contribute to the increasing greenhouse effect. The International Panel on Climate Change refer to WWTP:s as a significant source of direct emission of nitrous oxide and methane and indirect emission also occurs upstream and downstream the WWTP. As the discussion about climate impact from WWTP is growing, many recipients are congested and a tightening of the discharge limits is expected in order to reduce the load of nutrients on the natural water systems. Studies have shown that more stringent discharge limits increases the climate impact from WWTP. Two environmental problems, eutrophication and climate change, are facing each other and they must be valued in order for future WWTP to be planned. The aim was to investigate how the climate impact of wastewater treatment plants is affected by choice of technology and discharge limits. The simulation tool BioWin was used to calculate the carbon footprint (CF) from the future WWTP in the town of Enköping. Three different process technologies (activated sludge process, membrane bioreactor and activated sludge process with biological phosphorus removal) and seven different discharge limits were examined. The calculations took into account both direct and indirect emissions from e.g. production of nitrous oxide and use of electricity. The conventional activated sludge process caused the smallest CF, while the modern membrane bioreactor by far caused the largest CF. Tightening of the discharge limits gave an increase of the CF with up to 55 %, and especially the demands on nitrogen governed the increase. More stringent limits increased the CF from the membrane bioreactor the most, which indicates that from an environmental point of view, this technique is less suitable when limits are tightened. Emission of nitrous oxide accounted for the largest part of the CF and this emission increased as the discharge limits were tightened and when the nitrogen treatment was disturbed by, for instance, low water temperatures. More components should be accounted for when environmental impact from WWTP is investigated, e.g. eutrophication. This would make it possible to assess the overall environmental gain, or loss, from tightening of the discharge limits.

Thesis (M.S.)--Humboldt State University, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 50-54). Also available via Humboldt Digital Scholar.

The theoretical part of the Master´s thesis describes steroids, their features, and the methods for their determination in waters. In experimental part three steroid hormones, namely 1,4-androstadiene-3,17-dione (ADD), 1,4-androstadiene-3-one-17(beta)-ol (boldenone) and 17(beta)-estradiol were selected. The compounds were concentrated from water by LLE and SPE extraction and determined by gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry. Several experiments were conducted to assess the recovery of specific extraction for studied compound.

Process data from wastewater treatment plants are often corrupted by errors. These data provide a basis for operating the plant, therefore effort should be made to improve the data quality. Currently, Stockholm Vatten och Avfall uses a method where they quantitatively verify water flow measurement data by comparing it to water level measurements. In this thesis, an alternative approach based on mass balancing to detect errors was evaluated. The aim was to find, implement and evaluate a mass balance based method to detect and locate errors. The objective was to use this method to corroborate the flow verification method used by Stockholm Vatten och Avfall, and to improve flow data from Bromma Wastewater treatment plant. The chosen method consisted of two major steps, gross error detection and data reconciliation. A case study was performed where the method was tested on both simulated data with known added errors, real process data and finally a case where the suggested method was compared to the flow verification method. The results showed that this method was efficient in detecting a gross error when only one flow measurement was erroneous and that the estimation of the error magnitude was good. However, the suggested method was not useful for corroboration of the flow verification method. With the flow verification method, the flow in one filter basin at the time was examined. The suggested method required the combined flow in all 24 filter basins, which made it difficult to compare the two methods. The method has potential to be valuable for error detection in wastewater treatment plants, and to be used as a live tool to detect gross errors.

L'état des milieux aquatiques est un point essentiel de l'évaluation demandée par la Directive Cadre Européenne (DCE 2000/60/CE) visant à préserver ou à restaurer les masses d'eau superficielles et souterraines d'ici à 2015. A cet égard, les médicaments font désormais partis des contaminants organiques largement recherchés dans les eaux continentales de surface mais leur écodynamique sur tout un bassin versant est encore méconnue. Ce travail a ainsi apporté une évaluation de l'état de contamination de bassins versants par les médicaments à l'aide des biofilms épilithiques comme marqueur de l'imprégnation du milieu.La cartographie de l'imprégnation du bassin versant de la Vienne a permis de mettre en évidence une plus forte concentration en médicaments dans la partie amont du bassin que dans la partie aval (associée à la transition entre le socle granitique et les bassins sédimentaires). Les teneurs en médicaments mesurées dans les biofilms ont montré un facteur de concentration de 1000 par rapport aux teneurs rencontrées dans l'eau – traduisant ainsi un phénomène de bioaccumulation dans ce compartiment.L'hétérogénéité de l'habitat benthique (diversité des roches, différence d'exposition) influence le niveau d'imprégnation des biofilms sous certaines conditions d'exposition à un rejet.La majeure partie des biofilms situés en aval de l'ensemble des stations d'épuration est plus fortement contaminée. En revanche les mesures d'imprégnation effectuées sur le bassin de l'Arve n'ont montré aucun effet significatif de l'apport d'une station d'épuration recevant les effluents du Centre hospitalier Alpes Léman. / The European Water Framework Directive (DCE 2000/60/CE) aims to restore and protect aquatic ecosystems with the preservation of chemical and ecological status by 2015. In this sense, pharmaceuticals are part of organic contaminants currently investigated in surface waters but their fate along a watershed is still poorly known. This study has made an assessment of the contamination level of watersheds by pharmaceuticals using epilithic biofilms as a marker of the impregnation of the habitat.The impregnation mapping of the Vienne River watershed has highlighted a higher pharmaceutical concentration in the upper part of the river than in the lower part (associated with the transition from the granitic bedrock to the sedimentary basin). Pharmaceutical concentrations measured in the biofilms were 1000-fold higher than concentrations found in water – reflecting a phenomenon of bioaccumulation in this compartment.The habitat heterogeneity (rock diversity, exposure level) influences the impregnation degree of biofilms, depending on the exposure to point source pollution.Most biofilms located downstream from a wastewater treatment plant discharge were heavily contaminated with pharmaceuticals. On the other hand, the biofilms collected from the Arve River watershed have shown no significant effect of a wastewater treatment plant discharge receiving effluents from the hospital "Centre hospitalier Alpes Léman" on the impregnation of biofilms.

In it´s theoretical part, my master thesis handles selected softwares for wastewater treatment mathematical modelling. It summarizes and compares availible softwares on the market, it´s use, advantages and disadvantages. The practical part deals with an exemplar evaluation of selected wastewater treatment plant according to Czech normative standards and evaluation of the same wastewater treatment plant per mathematical model created in WEST program. The assembly of a wastewater treatment plant model consisted of studies, creation of the layout, insertion of provided data, calibration and model evaluation.

The thesis deals with the design and assessment of all supporting parts of a cast-in-place reinforced concrete sewage tank in a wastewater treatment plant. The thesis includes a technical report, static analysis, drawing documentations, construction process and visualization. The drawing documentation consists of shape and reinforcement drawings of supporting parts.

The diploma thesis is focused on the possibilities of drainage of waste water and its subsequent liquidation in the village of Kamenný Malíkov. The aim of this diploma thesis is the elaboration of variant solutions for drainage of Kamenný Malíkov. Furthermore, the proposal for wastewater treatment, the economic comparison of variants and the recommendation of the unsuitable variant. The diploma thesis deals with the proposal of predominantly gravitational way of drainage of waste water in combination with the pressure, due to incline terrain in the village. Each eventuality has wastewater treatment method designed.

The aim of this thesis is to determine the presence of pharmaceuticals in wastewater from several wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) with different number of equivalent persons and different treatment technologies. Five sulfonamides were chosen for a determination due to their wide usage in human and veterinary medicine practice. The specific compounds are sulfamerazine, sulfamethazine, sulfapyridine, sulfathiazole a sulfamethoxazole. For the determination of those sulfonamides, an UHPLC/DAD analytical method was chosen and optimized. There was also a need for optimization of SPE extraction method, especially a sample volume optimization. 250 mL was chosen as an ideal volume of wastewater sample for SPE. The optimized method was used for determination of sulfonamides in real wastewater samples from WWTP in Podivín, Pohořelice, Hustopeče, Valtice, Lednice and Mikulov. Average concentrations of pharmaceuticals in influent and effluent wastewater samples were in a range of 0,1 – 1 µg/l. The concentration of sulfonamides was mostly found higher in influent samples and lower in effluent samples. It can be said that a partial recovery of sulfonamides on WWTPs was observed.