How To Choose The Best Disc Diffusers For Your Waste Water Treatment Plant

Sewage Treatment Plants

Sewage Treatment Plants

Waste water treatment technology has progressed in leaps and bounds in the recent decades, thanks to growing awareness about preserving the environment and keeping valuable resources sustainable. Fresh water is the single most valuable resource the Earth has to provide. We cannot afford to be frivolous when it comes to waste water treatment and management. There are many types of waste water treatment systems available and one of the most common technologies used for such systems involves aeration of the water to encourage the growth of bacteria which in turn breaks down the foul waste matter into safe effluent matter. The most popular type of aeration system used involves the use of disc diffusers to pump air into the waste water to oxygenate it.

Microscopic organisms like bacteria aren’t always harmful. There are many such bacteria which are vital for keeping our environment safe and clean because they breakdown harmful waste matter and render it harmless. Such bacteria are very important in the treatment of foul waste water too. Whether it is a question of a residential colony or an industry, waste water management cannot be compromised in any way. An effective treatment system is one in which water is treated and recycled for other uses. For the recycling of water, it must be safe and not contain any foul matter. The most effective way to treat such water is with beneficial bacteria which break down foul matter and the resulting water can be filtered and effectively reused for purposes such as gardening.

Waste Water Treatment

Waste Water Treatment

One of the problems with the treatment of waste water is the fact that such water does not have enough dissolved oxygen to support colonies of beneficial bacteria. So, the same principle that is used to aerate aquariums is used to aerate waste water too. Perforated tubes or plates or discs are immersed into tanks holding waste water and compressed air is pumped into the water to aerate it. This air rises to the surface of the water in the form of bubbles and such systems are also classified depending on the size of the perforations into “fine bubble systems or coarse bubble systems”. There are advantages and disadvantages to both types of systems. There are no set rules for the choice of the right treatment system for waste water and the choice must be made according to the prevailing conditions where the water is to be treated.

If you are choosing disc diffusers for your waste water treatment system, you must ensure that what you are choosing is compatible for your system. The reliability and performance of the aeration system used will also define the design of the system itself, so it is important to use a system that provides adequate oxygenation. A system that is not efficient enough to provide the right oxygenation levels can prove to be a problem because it will use up too much energy. Inefficient energy consumption will definitely lead to more operating costs and this is something you must avoid by choosing a system that has the right oxygen transfer efficiency for your needs

What Life Will Be Like Without Sewage Treatment Plants?

Humans are the most wasteful species on Earth. We generate the largest amounts of waste material, be it biological waste or other even more harmful kinds of waste like plastic bags which take tens to thousands of years to disintegrate! The first plastic bags ever produced are still probably clogging up a landfill somewhere! If you feel as strongly about the environment as I do, then you probably already know how invaluable good sewage treatment plants are. Sewers are the most vital infrastructure we can have because the most basic sign of the civilized or modern world is a good waste disposal system that is both effective and sustainable. The waste water that is discharged in large quantities from both homes and industries can turn our oceans into cesspools in no time at all if it is not treated and rendered safe before disposal. Fortunately, technology on this front is improving on a daily basis and there are many sustainable and practical methods that can be put to use for this purpose.

The basic function of sewage treatment plants is to remove contaminants from waste water and the ideal goal of such processes is to enable the reuse of at least a percentage of the waste water involved. There are many methods that can be used for the process, depending on the type of sewer system in place. The sewage can either be treated close to its origins in smaller treatment facilities or it can be transported to a public or municipal treatment facility through a system of pipes and pumps. Sewer systems can be either used to purify effluents from homes and industries or they can be combined with sewer systems that also carry away storm water.

Such combined systems need facilities of much larger capacity to deal with the amount of storm water that can enter the system after heavy rains. In fact, it was watching such a combined sewer system get overwhelmed by storm water and seeing puddles of sewage everywhere after one heavy downpour, which actually set me thinking about how we actually deal with waste water disposal! Without proper ways to deal with all the waste we create, can you even imagine what life will be like?!