The acronym TU.
What is Turbidity Unit?
Waste material that may come from animal or plant material that can be generally consumed by bacteria and other small organisms.
What is Organic Waste
Oxygen levels in wastewater become less in wastewater as the temperature increases. Thus the dissolved oxygen for effluent water at 12°C might be 8.5 mg/L but at 22°C might be only 6.5 mg/L.
The measure of how heavy a substance (solid, liquid, or gas) is for its size.
What is density?
The dominant method of disinfection for wastewater.
What is Chlorination?
The type of disinfection process that ultraviolent radiation is.
What is Physical?
The acronym POU/POE.
What is Point-of-Use/Point-of-Entry?
The 2 elements that cause hardness in water.
What is Calcium and Magnesium?
The determination of the quantity of a mass in movement within a known length of time.
What is the Flow Measurement?
5 typical preliminary wastewater treatment processes.
What is Screening, Shredding, Grit Removal, Flow Measurement, and Emergency Storage?
The acronym for trihalomethanes.
What are THMs?
What the acronym SCADA stands for.
What is Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition?
Name one of the two types of semipermeable membranes used to remove minerals from water.
What is Cellulose Acetate OR Thin Film Composites?
The place where the height of water flowing through a weir or flume is measured by floats.
What is the Stilling Wells?
Used to life or raise wastewater or stormwater from lower elevation to higher elevations.
What is a Lift Station?
The acronym ASP stands for what.
What is activated sludge process?
In this type of filtration system, the water being filtered may flow from outside into hollow fibers or from inside to outside.
What is Dead-End Filtration Systems?
Term used to describe the processes of removing minerals from water.
What is Demineralization?
The name of the piece of equipment most widely used for clearing wastewater collection systems.
What is a Power Rodder?
The measure of the length of time solids in the aeration tank have been retained in the aeration tank.
What is Solids Retention Time (SRT)?
The term TOC stands for?
What is total organic carbon?
In this type of filtration system, the flow goes from inside the membrane, through membrane, and filtered water flows out of the system.
What is Cross-Flow Filtration?
The term for the passage of a liquid from a weak solution across a semipermeable membrane.
What is Osmosis?
The type of wastewater from a community's homes, business, and industries to wastewater treatment plant where pollutants are removed before treated wastewater is discharged.
What is Convey Wastewater?
The 3 types of lift stations.
What is Wet Well Station, Dry Well Station, and Manhole used as a Wet Well Station.
Microorganisms in activated sludge include bacteria, protozoans, rotifers, viruses, fungi, and what other type of organism.
What is algae?