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Apr 26, 2012
Peracetic Acid as an Alternative Disinfection Technology for Wet Weather Sewer Overflows
Publication: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2009: Great Rivers
Abstract
Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) continue to be a significant source of wet weather flows (WWFs). Traditional technologies exist to address wet weather overflows but are many times cost prohibitive, can yield toxic by-products and in areas of older infrastructure, space for facilities to treat overflows is often limited if available at all. As such more cost effective technologies, requiring less space and producing less harmful by-products are currently being explored. One such possibility for alternative high-rate disinfection has been investigated using peracetic acid. The decomposition of peracetic acid results in only the non-toxic by-products of oxygen, methane, carbon dioxide and water, and the disinfection reaction occurs in a short contact time and with a high kill rate. Thus, this technology can prove not only valuable where space is limited, but is also extremely environmentally sound.
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© 2009 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Acids
- Benefit cost ratios
- Business management
- Chemical compounds
- Chemicals
- Chemistry
- Combined sewers
- Disinfection
- Environmental engineering
- Financial management
- Flow (fluid dynamics)
- Fluid dynamics
- Fluid mechanics
- Hydrologic engineering
- Infrastructure
- Lifeline systems
- Overflow
- Pollutants
- Practice and Profession
- Sewers
- Wastes
- Water and water resources
- Water treatment
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P.E.
Environmental Engineer, Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, 233 Mining and Minerals Resource Building, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0107, (859) 257-8005. E-mail: [email protected]
Director, Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, 233 Mining and Minerals Resource Building, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0107, (859) 257-6329. E-mail: [email protected]
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