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• Physical Characteristics
• Chemical Characteristics Due To
Chemical Impurities
• Biological Characteristics Due
To Impurities
•Physical Characteristics
• Turbidity
• Color
• Odor
• Total Solids
• Temperature
•Chemical Characteristics
• Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD)
• Total Organic Carbon (TOC)
• Nitrogen
• Phosphorus
• Chlorides
• Sulfates
• Alkalinity
• pH
• Heavy Metals
• Trace Elements
• Priority Pollutants
•Biological Characteristics
• Biochemical Oxygen Deman (BOD)
• Oxygen requiewd for Nitrification
• Microbial population
On its website, Greenpeace reports the water pollution in the
Philippines is mostly wastewater from the following sources:
ir Aeration Settling
iffuser and rapid collects sludge
mixing on bottom
Levels of Treatment continued
Tertiary (advanced)
– anaerobic microbiological process with a
different microbe where O2 is toxic (more
sludge)
NO3- N2 (escapes to atmosphere)
Effluent
add methanol as food source
• Domestic wastewater