Sustainability Assessment of Wastewater Treatment Plants
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Sustainability Assessment of Wastewater Treatment Plants
By Başak Kiliç Taşeli
IntechOpen, July 2019, DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.88338
Abstract :
It is thought that this chapter will make a significant contribution to the literature or at least will fill the space on the wastewater treatment plant’s effect on climate change. It demonstrates the potential climate change impact of a sequential batch reactor (SBR) and constructed wetland on treating domestic wastewater by giving methods for calculation of their greenhouse gas emissions in terms of N2O and CH4. Are wastewater treatment plants sustainable? What aspects determine sustainability? Do tertiary wastewater treatment plants and constructed wetlands (CWs) have less global warming potential (CO2 emissions) and less energy use than conventional treatment? In accordance with the literature, greenhouse gas calculations of this study showed that CWs and SBR WWTPs do not contribute to global warming negatively.
Keywords :
wastewater treatment, sequential batch reactor, greenhouse gas, constructed wetlands, methane, nitrous oxide, sustainability
Source: Intech Open
Taxonomy
- Industrial Wastewater Treatment
- Waste Water Treatments
- Wastewater Treatment
- Sustainability
- Climate Change
- Wastewater Treatment Plant Design
- Greenhouse Gases
- Greenhouse Gases
- Sustainibility
- Greenhouse Gas Reduction