Use of the Potato Peels and the Bentonite as Additives of Flocculation in the Wastewater Treatment of the STEP of Saïda

Choumane, Fatima Zohra; Kandouci, Fatma; Maachou, Bouhana

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-89707-3_55

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“…In response to that, in 2005, Morocco launched a national sanitation program that aims to treat 60% of collected wastewater by 2020 [11]. Furthermore, in the plants of water treatment considered the coagulation-flocculation process is one of the best options, common, extensively applied as primary pretreatment, in particular, wastewater treatment relatively cost-effective, robust, and benign to the environment which removes organic and inorganic pollutants from wastewaters with reducing most of the TSS and COD in this process [6], [12][13][14][15]. This process aims to form flocs through destabilization of suspended particles followed by adsorption and aggregation [6].…”

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Coagulation-flocculation technique for domestic wastewater treatment in the city of Ain Aouda, Rabat, Morocco

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The goal of this study was to investigate the performance of coagulation-flocculation, and sedimentation tests to reduce contaminant concentrations in domestic wastewater to ecologically acceptable levels. The tests were performed at the (ONEE) laboratory using a jar test apparatus (GPB FLCDidatec, France) for enhancing the primary treatment of domestic wastewater effluent from the wastewater plant of Ain Aouda City, Rabat, Morocco. Aluminum sulphate Al2(SO4)3.18H2O (termed alum) was employed as a coagulant in the study. The impact of coagulant doses and pH at optimum dosage on the process of coagulation was studied and conditions were optimized to obtain the best removal of studied pollutants. The evolution of physico-chemical parameters pre-and post-treatment was monitored to determine the efficacy of the process. The turbidity and total suspended solids (TSS) were the best indicators of the treatment’s efficacy of coagulant concentration (150mg/L) within the pH optimum of 7. Laboratory tests have shown 98.4% of turbidity, and 97% total suspended solids removal at initial concentrations of 121 NTU, 220 mg/L respectively. Also, it has shown good removal efficiency for COD, BOD5 of the order 83%, 77% at initial concentrations of 340 mg/L, 150 mg/L respectively. Following the coagulation tests, the examination of the main parameters studied revealed that the degree of contamination had decreased. This is confirmed that Aluminium sulphate as a coagulant has proven its effectiveness in the treatment of domestic wastewater in this study.

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