TASK 1: To read up on sewage wastewater treatment activity.

To list out what type of treatment

is involved and type of equipment normally used for the treatment.

The task given is to search and read about sewage treatment activity, type of treatment involved
and the equipment that normally used in wastewater treatment. From this task, I gain some knowledge
about wastewater treatment. Wastewater treatment is the process of eliminating pollutant from
wastewater and converting the wastewater into bilge water that can be discharged into the environment.
There are several stage that are involved in the wastewater which are preliminary, primary, secondary
and tertiary. Wastewater may be dealt with near where the wastewater is created, which may be known
as a decentralized system or maybe an on-site system (in septic tanks, biofilters or aerobic treatment
systems).

Preliminary treatment is the pre-treatment that removes all substances that are easily to
collected from the wastewater before they can damage the pumps and wastewater line of primary
clarifiers. The equipment that are involved in this stage are screener, grit chambers, fat and grease
removal or skimming tanks.

Primary treatment is aimed to remove the fine suspended solids that cannot be removed in the
preliminary treatment. This treatment essentially involves the process of sedimentation or settling.
Sedimentation is normally occur in a large tanks called primary sedimentation tanks or clarifier.

Secondary or biological treatment is designed to considerably degrade the organic content

material of the sewage that are derived from human waste, food waste, soaps and detergent. This stage
of treatment can be classified as aerobic suspended growth system, aerobic attached growth system,
anaerobic suspended growth system and anaerobic attached growth system.

Tertiary treatment or advanced treatment is occasionally needed for the elimination of

suspended and dissolved materials, after the conventional primary and secondary treatments. In

general, the effluent of the sewage acquired after secondary treatment can be conveniently
disposed without causing any nuisance. There are four major processes under tertiary treatment
which are solids removal, biological nitrogen removal, biological phosphorus removal and
disinfection.