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Non-collective sanitation of homes - Operation and sizing

Authors: Hervé PHILIP, André RAMBAUD, Jean-Luc VASEL

Publication date: February 10, 2008 | Lire en français

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    1. Pre-treatment techniques

    1.1 Septic tank

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    1.1.1 Functions

    The all-water septic tank is a pretreatment device for domestic wastewater (all black water and household wastewater) that has two primary roles:

    • retention of solids (hydraulic settling and flotation phenomena);

    • hydrolysis (solubilization) and methanization (gasification) of the sludge produced, due to the retention of solids (biological phenomena of anaerobic digestion)....

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