BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT Technology that uses bacteria to consume waste/ organic materials.
BLEACHING Method used in the paper-making process to produce a bright white paper sheet. It produces dioxins.
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Biological Treatment: A treatment technology that uses bacteria to consume organic waste.
Biological Treatment: The use of bacteria or other microbial organisms to break down toxic
organic materials into carbon dioxide and water. Biomass: the amount of living matter in a given area or volume.
The biological treatment of wastewater and sludge, by inducing the breakdown of organics and hydrocarbons to carbon dioxide and water.
Biota
All living organisms in a region or ecosystem.
anaerobic biological treatment
any waste treatment process utilizing anaerobic or facultative organisms in the absence of air to reduce the organic matter in water.
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The range of biological treatments for environmental problems, as described by the term phytoremediation, actually consists of several specific processes: ...
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Short for 'mechanical biological treatment', which is a way of sorting and treating waste. The waste is first sorted mechanically into materials that can and cannot be recycled.
Impoundment made by excavation or earth fill for biological treatment of wastewater.
Waste Treatment Plant
A facility containing a series of tanks, screens, filters and other processes by which pollutants are removed from water.
advanced wastewater treatment Any treatment of wastewater that goes beyond the secondary or biological treatment stage; may include the removal of nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen and a high percentage of suspended solids.
Product that results when primary effluent is mixed with bacteria-laden sludge and then agitated and aerated to promote biological treatment, speeding the breakdown of organic matter in raw sewage undergoing secondary waste treatment.
Processes which employ aerobic or anaerobic microorganisms and result in decanted effluents and separated sludge containing microbial mass together with pollutants. Biological treatment processes are also used in combination and/or in conjunction ...
Activated Sludge: Product that results when primary effluent is mixed with bacteria-laden sludge and then agitated and aerated to promote biological treatment, ...
Waste Treatment Lagoon- Impoundment made by excavation or earth fill for biological treatment of wastewater.
treatability
In relation to waste water, the amenability of substances to removal without adversely affecting the normal operation of biological treatment processes (such as a sewage treatment plant).
can also apply to methods or techniques used for pollution prevention, pollutant reduction, or containment of contamination to prevent further movement of the contaminants, such as capping, solidification or vitrification, and biological treatment.
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