Industrial water pollution control terms

Activated carbon : carbon which is treated by high temprature heating with

steam or carbon dioxide producing an internal porous structre .

Absorption : the adhesion of an extremly thin layer of molecules to a surface of

solid or liquids with which they come in contact.

Aerobic : living or active only on presence of oxygen.

Aerobic biological oxidation : Any treatment utilizing aerobic organism as a agent

to reduce pollution load.

Anaerobic : living or active only in the absence of oxygen

Anerobic biological oxidation : Any method utlizing anaerobic organism to reduce

pollution load.

BOD : The Ampont of oxygen required for biological oxidation of organice matter
in a liquid.

Chemisorption : Adsorption where force holding the adsorbale to adsorbent is

chemical .

COD : The amount of oxygen required for chemical oxidation of matter in liquid.

Chlororination : Application of using chlorine to water or sewage for the purpose

of disinfection but frequenty for acomplishing other biological or chemical results.

Chalarifation : process of removing turbitidy & suspended solids by setting.

Chemicals can be added to improve and speedup setting process.

Coagulation : The process of adding a coagulent or other chemical materials for

treatment of water.

Colloids : A finely divided dispersion of one material in other material is called

colloids .
Dissolved oxygen : Amount of oxygen dissolved in water or sewage or any other
liquid. It is expressed in milligram per liter.

Effluent : A liquid which flows out of a containing space.

Filter tricking : Filter consisting of a artifical bed of coarse over which sewage
material is distributed.

Grease : grease includes fats, waxes,free fatty acids,soaps other nonfatty acid
materials .

Grit : The heavy minerals of matter in water sewage such as sand .

Hardness : A measure of capacity of water for precipitating soap.

Incrination : Combsution of waste water organic solid after water in evaported

from sludge .

Ozone : oxygen is molecular form with three atoms of oxygenin each molecule.

PH : a symbol denoting the negative logrithm of hydrogen ion concentration in a

solution.

Water Pollution : The introduction into a body of water of substances of such

characters and such quantity that its natural quality is so Altered as to impare its
usefulness or render its sense of taste and sight.

Pretreatment : any process used to reduce waste load partially before the water
waste is introduced into a main sewer system diliver to water treatment plant.

Primary Treatment : a process of removing sunbstainly floating and settleable

solid in waste water.

Secondary Treatment : Process to reduce the amount of dissolved organic matter

& further reduce the amount of suspended solid in waste water.

Tertiary Treatment : Process to remove all solids & organic matter from waste
water. Granula activated carbon method is a tertiay treatment.