Removal of helminth eggs in sewage side, through rapid sand filters, anthracite coal and zeolite for agricultural reuse and urban non-potable. / Remoção de ovos de helmintos de esgotos secundários, por meio de filtros rápidos de areia, carvão antracitoso e zeólito para reúso agrícola e urbano não potável.

AUTOR(ES)

Sidinei Antonio Gobbi

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

RESUMO

Helminth eggs are one of the major problems regarding the reuse of treated sewage in agriculture and non-potable urban irrigation since both workers who handle the effluent and the consumer population might become contaminated. Helminth eggs are not efficiently removed by conventional unit operations and processes, which do not allow the removal of helminth eggs at levels established by the World Health Organization guidelines. The objective of this research is to assess the gravity filtration as an additional unit of treatment for the removal of helminth eggs. Since local effluent sewage treatment stations have highly variable concentrations of helminth eggs, a synthetic solution of standardized Ascaris suum was used. The synthetic solution prepared with standardized eggs was used to determine the operating parameters of the filtration process. Following the trials, pilot scale tests with treated sewage were conducted aimed at evaluating the influence of organic materials, solids, among other materials which might interfere in the process. Experiments with synthetic solution were performed in the laboratory of the International Center of Water Reuse - CIRRA, at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo. Experiments with treated sewage were performed at ETE - ABC, SABESP. The results showed that the three filtration columns were very efficient in removing helminth eggs, which resulted in an effluent with a final concentration of <1 egg/L. In addition, the filtration allowed the removal of total suspended solids, turbidity, color, and particulate organic material, resulting in an effluent with great potential to be reused in irrigation as well as in non-potable urban reuse.

ASSUNTO(S)

antracitoso anthracite reúso de água water reuse ascaris filtração zeólito sand. zeolite areia filtration ascaris

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