EKC 278 ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT

Advanced Wastewater
(Tertiary) Treatment

Nur Ayshah Rosli

 OBJECTIVE
To learn the types of advance WW
Treatment
 To remove specific organic and inorganic constituents
from industrial effluent to make it suitable for reuse.

To remove pathogens from the secondary treated effluents.

Why is To remove total suspended solids and organic matter

tertiary those are present in effluents after secondary treatment.

treatment To reduce total dissolved solids (TDS) from the secondary

treated effluent to meet reuse quality standards.

needed? To make treated wastewater suitable for land application

purpose or directly discharge it into the water bodies like
rivers, lakes, etc.

To remove residual nutrients beyond what can be

accomplished by earlier treatment methods.
 Example of Tertiary Treatment

Softening Adsorption
Unit Unit
Ion exchange mechanism Activated carbon as
to remove hardness (a adsorbent. Organic
combination of calcium and material accumulate at the Microfiltration is the most
magnesium salts) from the interface due to physical
water. binding to the solid
surface.
Membrane
Plasma
Separation
Technology
Technology
Filtration based on size, Plasma-generated
and highly site specific. oxidants effectively
remove color, odor and
commonly used. organic residues while
disinfecting the water.
Example of Tertiary Treatment

Phosphorus Nitrogen
Filtration
removal Removal

Granular filtration using Using chemical Nitrogen control through

sand filter. Size of the grain precipitation (e.g: ferric biological means such as
depends on the chloride, alum, lime). nitrification/denitrification.
characteristics of the Phosphorus removal can Chemically through
influent. reduce eutrophication. ammonia stripping.
Figure: The type of filtration in membrane separation technology for treating wastewater
Wastewater treatment plant efficiency for the basic parameters in the
inlet of the WWTP and after each treatment stage
Conclusion
AWT of sewage can remove about
99% of the pollutants from raw
wastewater and can produce an
effluent of almost drinking water
quality.
Additional Readings
Chapter 12 - Wastewater Treatment

Gerard Kiely, Environmental Engineering. McGraw-

Hill Education (India) Pvt Limited.

Chapter 6 - Wastewater Treatment

Mackenzie L. Davis & David A. Cornwel, Introduction to

Environmental Engineering, Fourth Edition. McGraw-
Hill Education