1. Evaluation of a portable in-house greywater treatment system for potential water-reuse in urban areas.
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Kant, Shashi, Jaber, Fouad H., and Karthikeyan, R.
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GRAYWATER (Domestic wastewater) , *SEWAGE purification , *WATER reuse , *MICROFILTRATION , *ACTIVATED carbon - Abstract
This study aims at improving greywater reuse potential. An advanced physical filtration system named as GAC-MI-ME was developed to attain multi-grade effluents for versatile reuse of greywater. It consists of a matrix of treatment trains including coarse filtration, microfiltration, activated carbon, ultrafiltration, ultraviolet, and reverse osmosis. A preliminary set of experiments were conducted to characterize the greywater originating from shower, washbasin, and laundry. The samples were subsequently treated through GAC-MI-ME system. It was observed that the activated carbon along with microfiltration and coarse filtration played vital roles as pre-filtration for ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis. The contaminant load distributions of GAC-MI-ME system were observed with an average of 90.4% turbidity and 53.2% of biochemical oxidation demand (BOD5) as the pre-filtration, whereas the effluents at ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis showed unrestricted water reuse possibilities. The GAC-MI-ME system can be envisioned as advancement to the conventionally applied greywater treatments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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