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Procedure for Starting and Stopping of Sewage

Treatment Plant on a Ship
By Mohit | April 24, 2019 | Guidelines

Any machine on the ship requires a proper procedure to be followed for

starting and stopping it. Failure to follow this step-by-step procedure will lead
to either failure in starting or stopping the machine or lead to some fault.

Sewage treatment plant is one such equipment on the ship which requires a
step-by-step procedure to be followed for starting and stopping it. In this
article we will go through the procedure of starting and stopping a sewage
treatment plant.

Starting of a Sewage Plant

Sewage plant is generally running all the time during sailing, but it might need
to be started when the ship is installed with a new sewage treat plant which
needs to be stopped at regular interval of time for improving its performance
and maintenance procedures. Below are the points that need to be followed
for starting a sewage treatment plant.
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1. Make sure if any maintenance is carried out on the sewage treatment

system, all the openings have been closed properly before starting.

2. The sewage plant is be filled with fresh water inside the chamber.
3. At this stage, there are no aerobic bacteria inside the chamber, but the
sewage has started coming to the plant. Thus, in order to increase efficiency
and starting rate of the plant bio pac is added to the plant by flushing the
amount specified in the manual. This bio pac is mixed with warm water which
helps in growth of these bacteria and also efficient functioning of the plant.

4. If the bio pac is not added, the plant might take up to 5 to 7 days to be
completely functional. However, with the bio pac it becomes functional within
24 hours.

5. Start the air compressor or open the air valve as per the design of the
plant. The pressure is maintained as per the manual. Generally 0.3-0.4 bars.

6. Open the sewage overboard valve and close holding tank valve when the
ship is out of restricted waters.

7. The plant is continuously monitored and checked for the flow through the
transparent plastic tubes.

8. The sample is taken for checking for suspended solids and chlorine
content.
Stopping of the plant
Stopping of the sewage treatment plant is generally done either before
entering the dry dock or in case some maintenance has to be carried out
inside the treatment plant.

1. For stopping the system, close the inlet valve to the sewage plant and close
the overboard valve and let the sewage go overboard.

2. Empty all the three chambers of the plant i.e. aeration, settling and
chlorination chambers. If the chambers are not emptied, it will lead to growth
of anaerobic bacteria which forms the toxic H2S gas.

3. If entry has to be made inside the tank, the later should be checked for
hydrogen sulphide gas H2S with the help of dragor tube by taking a
continuous sample from the plant. Entry is made with the help of mask and
rubber gloves should be put on.

4. In case the ship is going to dry dock the overboard should be connected to
shore reception facilities.

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3 Comments

abhiram says:
March 6, 2015 at 10:57 am

Plz explain the first point in stopping is it close the overboard valve or open the obd
valve

Ian says:
May 14, 2015 at 7:56 am
Can you please add the parts? Major and Minor Parts? Thank you!

Indusaquatech says:
November 11, 2019 at 2:57 pm

so much information is shared in this article. th

Sewage treatment “infrastructure” is built at the level of cities and towns, it is now
becoming common to find STPs at community levels – i.e., at apartment, business
campus, schools or institutional campus scales. If planned well, sewage treatment
systems can be designed and implemented at the individual household level.

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