Evaluation and assessment of performance of Al-Hussein bin Talal University (AHU) wastewater treatment plants

Dahamsheh, Ahmad; Wedyan, Mohammed

International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences

Int. j. adv. appl. sci.

EISSN: 2313-3724

Print ISSN: 2313-626X

Volume 4, Issue 1 (January 2017), Pages: 84-89

Title: Evaluation and assessment of performance of Al-Hussein bin Talal University (AHU) wastewater treatment plants

Author(s): Ahmad Dahamsheh ¹, Mohammed Wedyan ^2,*

Affiliation(s):

¹Department of Civil Engineering, Collage of Engineering, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, P O Box 20, Ma’an – 71110, Jordan
²Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Department, The Hashemite University, Al Zarka, P O Box 330127, Jordan

https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2017.01.012

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Abstract:

Two hundreds wastewater samples were collected from inlet and outlet water of AHU wastewater treatment plant and analyzed for biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), chemical oxygen demand (COD) and total suspended solids (TSS) to evaluate performance of AHU wastewater treatment plant. BOD5was almost reduced to very low level and the reduction percentage is 95% while COD less than BOD5 84%and TSS is 83%.These percentages of reduction of BOD5, COD and TSS explained the fulfilling overall efficiency of the plant. On this research, the biodegradability indexes (B.I) of wastewater treatment plants were observed. The average of B.I were shown that the highest biodegradability index was in June (0.95) and the lowest was in July (0.6). The correlation between BOD5 and COD will support in evaluating the treatment approaches. This shows that probably AHU wastewater is relatively biodegradable. A correlation is established between the inlet and outlet parameters, especially when it comes to the BOD5 parameter confirmed that the process is very efficient in reduction the biological matter.

This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Keywords: Biochemical oxygen demand, Chemical oxygen demand, Total suspended solids, Wastewater treatment plant

Article History: Received 3 November 2016, Received in revised form 20 December 2016, Accepted 24 December 2016

Digital Object Identifier:

https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2017.01.012

Citation:

Dahamsheh A and Wedyan M (2017). Evaluation and assessment of performance of Al-Hussein bin Talal University (AHU) wastewater treatment plants. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 4(1): 84-89

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