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Date of upload: Mar 1, 2022 ^^
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My three little boys ( ages 7, 4, and 1) always come running for these waste water videos :) They are fascinated by our small town's sewage treatment plant and are so very disappointed that they don't give tours. These videos have been the next best thing. Thank you for another excellent video.
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My father in law was a pipefitter in Chicago so we got to go to the grand opening of Stickney Treatment plant. They showed and explained the different steps and processes used to separate things then put us on a sludge train. At the end of the line they has a HUGE field/ train yard that the sludge was dump into, then turned several times like compose. They would sell this as fertilizer.
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In my specific field we have a wastewater pretreatment process called "metals precipitation" which uses hydrated lime and flocculant to "settle" and separate the metal contamination out so we can release clean water. It also uses a clarifier and at least one "polishing tank" to allow the sludge to descend, and a clear water layer to form and flow out of the plant into the sewer system.
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I work for a municipality in the US and it is amazing how fast water treatment plants can clean water. One of the plants we have can take sewage and turn it into water clean enough to discharge in only about 24 hours; it really surprised me when I was discussing it with our Public Works department. An treatment operator is a good job, I consistently see openings for these positions. Urban areas and water treatment needs are only going to grow.
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Don't forget belt presses Grady! Thanks for doing this series! My dad was a wastewater plant operator when I was growing up, it was a lot more interesting than people would think, especially when the state would audit them because their lab results showed the effluent exceeded state drinking water standards. . . And then the audit would reveal they WEREN'T falsifying their results! đ¤Ł
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GF works at one of the Seattle area sewage plants, on the solids side of things. "Polymer" is a big part of getting the solids to separate from the liquids. Once settled out, the solids go to enclosed digesters where the "material" is more or less composted in an anaerobic process. The resulting methane is used to help provide process heat for elsewhere in the plant. Once sufficiently digested, the solids are dewatered (the watery "mud" first goes on a separating belt to let liquid drip out, then into centrifuges to spin out more water) to the consistency of wet soil and shipped to eastern Washington for disposal, er, I mean application as fertilizer on agricultural land. Seattle area folks - if you've ever seen double dump trucks on I-90 with "Loop - turn your dirt around" you now know that is what's left of Seattle's poo.
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I learned engines by working with my dad at a waste water treatment plant. They had 4 big natural gas Cat engines (that we maintained) that turned the blowers to aerated the sewage as it entered the plant. I learned a lot, not only from dad, but from the engineers, operators and chemists at the plant. Really, really cool!
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Dear Grady, great to hear such a complicated topic presented so easily.
I am working in the wwtp field with newest technologies such as electro dialysis, ultrafiltration or reverse osmosis.
In case you need contacts to a full scale plant almost everywhere in the world, to shoot videos or do interviews, don't hesitate to drop a comment and I can forward you to some colleagues.
Cheers
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