An evaluation of the re-circulated vertical flow bioreactor to recycle rural greywater for irrigation under arid Mediterranean bioclimate

Ammari, Tarek G.; Al-Zu’bi, Y.; Albalawneh, Abeer; Tahhan, Ragheb A.; Al-Dabbas, Muhamad; Ta’any, Rakad; Abu-Harb, Raihan

doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2014.03.009

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“…This result indicated that the CFM provided improved aeration that resulted in high‐effluent DO (~7.2 ± 1.5 mg/L; Table 3) without the need for mechanical mixing or direct aeration. These effluent DO results are comparable to those reported by Ammari et al (2014) of 5.2 to 8.7 mg/L. The CFM did not show a visible biofilm, but a thin, slimy biofilm was present and observable to the touch.…”

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Performance and Economic Evaluation of a Semibatch Vertical‐Flow Wetland for Onsite Residential Bathroom Graywater Treatment

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et al. 2016

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She specializes in water resource management, including onsite nonpotable water treatment and reuse, and water sustainability and risk assessments. She also has other environmental consulting experience, including environmental impact assessment studies, stormwater fee analysis, and environmental due-diligence auditing. Yu received her master's degree in environmental engineering from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and her doctorate in Yu et al. | http://dx.

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Performance and Economic Evaluation of a Semibatch Vertical‐Flow Wetland for Onsite Residential Bathroom Graywater Treatment

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“…The samples were analyzed at the 'National Centre for Agricultural Research and Transfer of Technology' and 'Water Authority of Jordan' laboratories (DPMN 2004). Table 2 provides the physiochemical characteristics of untreated and treated greywater collected from difference areas in Jordan (McIllwaine 2003a;Suleiman et al 2005Suleiman et al , 2010Jamrah et al 2006;Ammari et al 2014).…”

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“…In this regard, household reuse of greywater is encouraged to further enhance water sustainability. The quantity of greywater produced in Jordan is estimated to be between 50 and 80% of a person's daily water consumption (Ammari et al 2014;Albalawneh & Chang 2015). However, the average quantity of greywater produced at the household level is between 51-63 Liter/capita per day ( Jamrah & Ayyash 2008), and about 54 million m 3 /year (Assayed et al 2018).…”

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Greywater reuse: an assessment of the Jordanian experience in rural communities

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Elwaheidi

Salih

et al. 2022

Water Science and Technology

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Water conservation is a critical issue particularly in arid countries and countries which suffer lack of natural water resources. Jordan is one of the most water-scarce countries in the world; this fact has forced the search for alternative sustainable solutions. With the support of several regional and international organizations, tens of projects were implemented across the country over the last thirty years that aimed to reusing the greywater in rural communities. The current review provides a wide overview of Jordan's experience in greywater treatment and its reuse for non-potable purposes in rural areas. To the best knowledge of the authors, the present review is the first to assess the Jordanian experience in this field. Many governmental authorities and non-governmental organizations had been employed in the Jordan's experience. The greywater reuse systems were established to achieve advantageous environmental and socio-economic consequences on the rural communities. The strategy of greywater treatment was based on a local on-site greywater treatment system in households or the so called ‘autonomous water management’. The applied greywater treatment technologies in households were found efficient in rendering greywater adequate for agricultural uses. However, further improvements and territorial expansion of the experiment are needed.

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“…The average production of greywater in Greek households was 82.6 ± 49.3 litre per capita per day (lpcd) with the major contribution from bathtub and laundry (Antonopoulou et al, 2013). The reuse of greywater results in reduction of freshwater usage and the associated cost, but there are some challenges that need to be addressed: 1 availability of inexpensive technology for treating greywater 2 access to this inexpensive technology and its relative ease of applicability by common people with little to moderate technical knowledge (Ammari et al, 2014).…”

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“…Since, in the case of low HLR, both bark and charcoal filters provide good results, cost and ease of availability of the materials can be the decisive factors when choosing either of these filter mediums. Another study (Ammari et al, 2014) used a vertical flow bioreactor to recycle greywater. Their system significantly improved greywater quality as it removed 97% of BOD 5 , 94% of COD, 100% of PO 4 , 90% of TSS, 19% to 66% of NO 3 , 45% of chloride ions, and 55% of sulphate ions.…”

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Sustainable wastewater management for underdeveloped communities - a hands-on method for qualitative and quantitative analysis of greywater

Ahmed

Saiek

Chowdhury³

et al. 2018

IJESD

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The quantity of greywater produced in urban areas of Dhaka city in Bangladesh is around 96-112 litres per capita per day which is 60%-70% of the average water supplied. This huge amount of greywater could be recycled via a separate distribution system to meet water demand for greywater toilet systems, gardening and irrigation. The quality parameters of collected greywater samples ranged for pH between 6.67 to 7.92, conductivity between 548 to 999 μS-cm-1 , turbidity between 54 to 435 NTU, colour between 28 to 367 (Pt-Co Unit), BOD 5 between 60 to 299 mg-L-1 and COD between 135 to 751 mg-L-1. It is estimated that an annual savings of 59 million Taka (about 728,300 USD based on $1 = 81 Taka as of 4/13/2017) could be achieved in a chemical and purification process if greywater is recycled for this community. This practice of recycling greywater is a step toward sustainable wastewater management for underdeveloped communities struggling with capital and dwindling freshwater sources.

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An evaluation of the re-circulated vertical flow bioreactor to recycle rural greywater for irrigation under arid Mediterranean bioclimate

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Performance and Economic Evaluation of a Semibatch Vertical‐Flow Wetland for Onsite Residential Bathroom Graywater Treatment

Performance and Economic Evaluation of a Semibatch Vertical‐Flow Wetland for Onsite Residential Bathroom Graywater Treatment

Greywater reuse: an assessment of the Jordanian experience in rural communities

Sustainable wastewater management for underdeveloped communities - a hands-on method for qualitative and quantitative analysis of greywater

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