Wastewater Treatment and Recycling of Western Sydney Airport

Abstract

The topic of this thesis is wastewater treatment and recycling of Western Sydney Airport. Due to the airports’ increasing demand for water and the limitation of total water resources, it is necessary to design a wastewater treatment and recycling system for Western Sydney Airport. There are two primary types of wastewater generated by an airport: wastewater generated by passengers and wastewater generated by the operation and maintenance of the airport. The treatment of these two types of wastewater should be designed separately since these two types of wastewater have different pollutants. The primary pollutants of wastewater generated by passengers are similar to domestic wastewater, which contains organic pollutants, the primary pollutants of wastewater generated by the operation and maintenance of the airport are nitrogen and carbon compounds. By designing a wastewater treatment and recycling system, the water consumption of the airport can be reduced significantly.