Domestic Wastewater Treatment System in the Light of Development of Smart Cities for Better World

Abstract

Abstract

The Government of India has launched ‘Smart Cities Mission’ to promote sustainable and inclusive development achieve universal sanitation coverage by 2019. To accomplish the task, the government is emphasizing on the availability of toilets to all. To achieve the target in such a short period of time, the centralizedsewerage system is a non-realistic option, especially in the sparsely populated areas. Therefore, onsite domestic wastewater treatment systems (ODWTS) are the appropriate choice available tofulfill the task. Conventional septic tanks (CST) are the most popular and the simplest type of ODWTS. But the CST has low treatment efficiency due to various technical and structural drawbacks. To overcome the major drawbacks of CST, a two-stage anaerobic ODWTS was developed. The main purpose of this study was to monitor the performance of the ODWTS interms of technical, economical, social and environmental viewpoints. An anaerobic digestionmodelling was also applied to the system at different levels of complexity. The modelling was based on the widely recognized IWA [International Water Association, provides information services on all aspects of water, wastewater and related environmental fields] Anaerobic Digestion Model No. 1 (ADM1).

Keywords: Onsite domestic wastewater treatment system, conventional septic tanks, two-stage anaerobic system, ADM1 model

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Rajshree Mathur, Meena Kumari Sharma. Domestic Wastewater Treatment System in the Light of Development of Smart Cities for Better World. Research & Reviews: Journal of Ecology. 2018; 7(1): 18–22p.