Technical evaluation and optimization of a mobile septage treatment unit.

ABSTRACT: A mobile septage treatment unit was built in India using readily available filters and membranes (mesh fabric, sand, granular activated carbon (GAC), microfilter, ultrafilter) and installed on the bed of a small truck. The target application was emptying of septic or sewage holding tanks and concentration of suspended solids while generating a liquid that could be discharged. The system was evaluated for operational and treatment performance while processing septage in the field at 108 sites in Tamil Nadu, India. After one phase of evaluation (Phase I), the system was improved and three replicate systems with slight modifications were fabricated for a second round of evaluation (Phase II) alongside the original, but modified unit. In Phase I, 105 m³ of septage was processed at a

SUBMITTER: Forbis-Stokes AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7695683 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature