Watercraft waste treatment system development and demonstration report.
By: [Authors: Arnold J. Bryce, Peter S. Shelley, and James C. White]
Contributors: Bryce, Arnold J.; Shelley, Peter S.; White, James C.; United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
Series: Water pollution control research series
Publisher: [Environmental Protection Agency, Research and Monitoring]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
Subjects: Ships -- Waste disposal.; Sewage -- Purification.
Description: A shipboard sewage treatment system consisting of: Comminution of solids for ease of transport and further treatment; Electro coagulation of sewage for ease of removal of suspended solids; Solids separation; Soluble BOD reduction with carbon adsorption; Coliform bacteria removal; and Solids incineration was designed to process shipboard sanitary, culinary, and laundry wastes during prolonged sea trials. Advantages of the electrochemical system are given. Waste stream characterization showed the BOD and suspended solids levels of shipboard wastes to be 2 to 3 times the concentrations common to municipal wastes. The development program was successful in demonstrating a practical and economically viable electro-chemical treatment system.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"15020 DHG 09/71."
Prepared for the Environmental Protection Agency.