SCALING LAWS FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS EMPLOYING COAGULATION AND SEDIMENTATION

In this work the authors develop scaling laws that delineate the regimes in which coagulation, breakup and sedimentation are predominant. Although the details of the interactions between the particles or between the particles and the continuous phase are examined for an idealized isotropic turbulent flow, it is shown how the results which are obtained can be applied to dispersed systems in agitator tanks and in turbulent pipe flows. Based on this analysis and a knowledge of the physicochemical properties of a dispersed system, which can be gained by in situ measurements, the authors show how a wastewater treatment or water purification system can be rationally designed.

• Corporate Authors:

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Fluid Dynamics Research Laboratory
  Cambridge, MA  United States 
• Authors:
  • Delichatsios, M A
  • Probstein, R F
• Publication Date: 1974-7

Media Info

• Pagination: 24 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Coagulation; Fluid mechanics; Hydrodynamics; Mathematical models; Sedimentation; Sewage treatment; Ships; Turbulence; Wastewater; Water pollution; Water quality management
• Uncontrolled Terms: Experimental design; Waste treatment; Water treatment
• Old TRIS Terms: Dispersion; Sewage treatment systems; Shipboard sewage treatment; Shipboard sewage treatment systems; Water pollution (Sewage); Water pollution prevention
• Subject Areas: Environment; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Marine Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00147261
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: FML-74-3
• Contract Numbers: N00014-67-A-0204-005
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 16 1977 12:00AM