Thesis (Ph.D.)--Flinders University, School of Medicine, Dept. of Environmental Health. / Typescript bound. Includes bibliographical references: (leaves 650-698) Also available online.

Thesis (M.Sc.Agric.) - University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2009. / Full text also available online. Scroll down for electronic link.

Στην παρούσα μελέτη εξετάζεται η δυνατότητα επαναχρησιμοποίησης των επεξεργασμένων αστικών λυμάτων και ιλύος από Εγκαταστάσεις Επεξεργασίας Λυμάτων του νομού Αιτωλ/νίας σε γεωργικές εκτάσεις του νομού. Στο πρώτο μέρος της εργασίας γίνεται μια εισαγωγή στην επαναχρησιμοποίηση των αστικών λυμάτων στην γεωργία. Περιγράφονται τα χαρακτηριστικά των λυμάτων, οι διεργασίες που συντελούνται στις Εγκαταστάσεις Επεξεργασίας Λυμάτων, τα κριτήρια ποιότητας που πρέπει να πληρούν τα λύματα (προκειμένου να χρησιμοποιηθούν για άρδευση). Αναλύονται τα αγρονομικά κριτήρια και τα κριτήρια για την διασφάλιση της δημόσιας υγείας, που πρέπει να τηρούν τα επεξεργασμένα λύματα, ώστε να εφαρμόζονται στα εδάφη με ασφάλεια. Επίσης, στο πρώτο μέρος αναλύονται τα κριτήρια επιλογής θέσεων για την εφαρμογή των λυμάτων, καθώς και το νομοθετικό πλαίσιο που ισχύει στην Ελλάδα σχετικά με την επαναχρησιμοποίηση. Τέλος, γίνεται μια επισκόπηση της διεθνούς πρακτικής σχετικά με την επαναχρησιμοποίηση και περιγράφεται και η κατάσταση που επικρατεί στον Ελλαδικό χώρο. Στο δεύτερο μέρος γίνεται αναφορά στους υδατικούς πόρους του νομού Αιτωλ/νίας. Περιγράφεται το υδατικό δυναμικό του νομού Αιτωλ/νίας, οι ανάγκες νερού για διάφορες χρήσεις στον νομό, καθώς και οι υποδομές δικτύων άρδευσης σην Αιτωλ/νία. Το τρίτο μέρος αναφέρεται στην χρήση της ιλύος στην γεωργία. Γίνεται περιγραφή των χαρακτηριστικών της λυματολάσπης, του νομικού πλαισίου που ισχύει κατά την χρήση της στην γεωργία και τονίζονται τα κρίσιμα σημεία ελέγχου κατά την εφαρμογή της λάσπης στα γεωργικά εδάφη. Στο τέταρτο μέρος γίνεται η οριοθέτηση και η περιγραφή των περιοχών μελέτης και παρουσιάζεται ο τρόπος, με τον οποίο προσδιορίζονται οι καλλιεργούμενες εκτάσεις μέσα σε κάθε περιοχή μελέτης, ώστε στην συνέχεια να εκτιμηθούν οι υδατικές απαιτήσεις. Οι Εγκαταστάσεις Επεξεργασίας Αστικών Λυμάτων, που εξετάζονται στην παρούσα μελέτη, είναι αυτές των Δήμων Μεσολογγίου, Αιτωλικού, Θέρμου, Αγρινίου και Ναυπάκτου. Ενώ οι επιλεγείσες περιοχές μελέτης βρίσκονται πλησίον των ανωτέρω εγκαταστάσεων. Γίνεται επίσης σύντομη αναφορά στον τρόπο λειτουργίας της κάθε ΕΕΛ. Στο πέμπτο μέρος γίνεται αναφορά στους παράγοντες που επηρεάζουν την υδατοκατανάλωση των καλλιεργειών, αναλύεται η μεθοδολογία με την βοήθεια της οποίας προσδιορίζονται οι υδατικές απαιτήσεις των καλλιεργειών σύμφωνα με την εξίσωση των Penman Monteith κατά FAO. Προσδιορίζονται οι υδατικές απαιτήσεις των καλλιεργειών και οι συνολικές ανάγκες σε αρδευτικό νερό για κάθε περιοχή μελέτης, ακολουθεί η συσχετισή του με τις ετήσιες εκροές της κάθε ΕΕΛ, ώστε να προκύψει το ποσοστό κάλυψης των αρδευτικών αναγκών με επεξεργασμένες εκροές για την κάθε περιοχή. Τέλος, στο έκτο μέρος γίνεται μια προσπάθεια εκτίμησης της δυνατότητας χρήσης της λυματολάσπης στα εδάφη του νομού Αιτωλ/νίας. / This study examines the potential reuse of treated municipal wastewater and sludge from Waste Water Treatment Plants (WWTPs) in agricultural areas of Aitoloakarnania prefecture. The first part of the study is an introduction to the reuse of urban wastewater in agriculture. Describes the characteristics of wastewater, the processes occurring in the wastewater treatment plants, the quality criteria that wastewater should have for safe use in irrigation. Also, the first part analyzes the criteria for selecting areas to apply wastewater. The legislative framework in Greece for waste water reuse is also analyzed. Finally, a review of international and domestic practices on agricultural reuse is given. The second part refers to the water resources of the Aitoloakarnania prefecture. The third part refers to the use of sludge in agriculture. Describes the characteristics of the sludge, the legal framework applicable for use in agriculture and highlights the critical control points in the application of sludge on soils. The fourth part describes each study area and shows how we can specify in each area the cultivated species (crops) in order to calculate the water requirements of the crops. The study areas are sited near by the WWTPs of Messolongi, Aitoliko, Thermo, Agrinio, Naupaktos. The fifth part refers to the factors affecting water requirements of the crops, and analyzes the methodology used to calculate water requirements of crops (FAO Penman – Monteith equation). At the end of the part there is a correlation between the water requirements of the crops and the annual output of each WWTP, resulting in the percentage of coverage of irrigation demands of crops in each studied area. Finally, the sixth part is an attempt to assess the usability of sludge to soils of the Aitoloakarnania prefecture.

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Thesis (Master of Engineering in Chemical Engineering))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2018. / Fresh, clean water has always been critical for the world's social development. Supply of water can be reinforced through recycling and reuse; and secondary treatment of municipal wastewater effluent with a membrane bioreactor (MBR) followed by a reverse osmosis (RO) process, has emerged as a crucial treatment process for water reuse. However, fouling of RO membranes in such process is unavoidable. This leads to poor performance, increase in operational cost and degradation of the membrane material, which reduces the membrane life span. Various researches have been conducted to provide an understanding of the mechanism of fouling, and methods have been developed to minimize it. In this research, the effect of surface modification to minimise fouling on a thin film composite polyamide RO membrane was investigated. This study was divided into three parts, namely: membrane modification, biofouling and filtration using RO. Two modifying agents, PVA and DMAEMA, were used as grafting solutions. Escherichia coli (E. coli) were used as the biofoulant to study the ant-biofouling properties of the membranes. A make-up synthetic MBR secondary effluent feed was used in a bench scale RO process. During the membrane modification process, the membrane was treated using two different approaches. Firstly, the covalent attachment of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) through Glutaraldehyde (GA) onto the surface and secondly the redox initiated grafting of dimethyl amino ethyl methacrylate (DMAEMA PVA and DMAEMA grafting solutions were applied at four different concentrations). The PVA and DMAEMA modifying agents were successfully grafted onto the membrane top layers and were confirmed by the functional groups, present, using the Attenuated Total Reflectance–Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) spectra. The morphology of the membrane surfaces was investigated using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), before and after treatment. SEM analysis showed better membrane structures with PVA grafting compared to DMAEMA.

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Thesis (MTech (Electrical Engineering))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2007 / In order to develop an effective control strategy for the activated sludge process of a wastewater treatment plant, an understanding of the nature of the influent load disturbances to the wastewater treatment plant is necessary. Biological systems are among the most difficult to control and predict. Due to the complex biological reaction mechanisms, the highly time-varying, and multivariable aspects of the wastewater treatment plant ('MNTP), the diagnosis of the 'MNTP are still difficult in practice. The application of intelligent techniques, which can analyse the multi-dimensional nonlinear process data using a visualisation technique, can be useful for analysing and diagnosing the activated-sludge process in the VVVVTP. This complex capability for nonlinearity representation combined with the fact that no model exists for the WVVTP influent dynamics to a WVVTP, makes neural networks an ideal choice for a solution. Forecasting the behaviour of complex systems has been a broad application area for neural networks. Applications such as economic forecasting, electricity load I demand forecasting, and forecasting natural and physical phenomena have been extensively studied, hence the numerous papers presented at annual conferences in this focus area. The cognitive ability of artificial neural networks to map' nonlinear complex input-output relationships, which would allow for better prediction and corrective control of processes, make them particularly attractive. The values of the influent disturbances are usually measured off-line in ~ laboratory, as there are still no reliable on-line sensors available. This work presents the development of a neural network model for prediction of the values of the influent disturbances based on historical plant and weather data, which ultimately affect the activated sludge process. Three different neural networks including the multilayer perceptron, recurrent and radial basis functions neural network are developed for the prediction of the influent disturbances of Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen (TKN) and influent flow rate respectively. The application area is the prediction of the influent variables at a local municipal wastewater treatment plant. The forecast result is used for the determination of the setpoint to a controller, in order to• optimize plant performance. The results are first applied to a pilot wastewater treatment plant. Much hype exists surrounding the subject of neural networks, and they are sometimes described as 'computers that think'. This sort of definition creates unrealistic expectations and is one of the reasons why it is discredited. The results obtained will hopefully present helpful insights as to the scope and possibilities as to the application for neural networks, but also present the practical challenges which neural network practitioners and designers of intelligent systems face. The solution of the problem for development of the mathematical model for dynamic behaviour of the influent disturbances according to the influence of the weather conditions and the season of the year is the first attempt in the scientific and research literature so far.

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