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STUDY REGARDING THE DETERMINATION OF WASTEWATER SPECIFIC FLOWS IN ROMANIA RURAL AREAS


MIRCEA-VLAD MUREȘAN 1, ELENA-MARIA PICĂ 1
1. Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 28 Memorandumului Street, Cluj-Napoca, 400114, Romania

Issue:

JESR, Number 4, Volume XX

Section:

Issue Nr. 4 - Volume 20(2014)

Abstract:

This paper intends to inform the scientific and engineering community on the importance of wastewater treatment plants of small capacity, designed for rural settlements. By analysing the evolution of Romania’s population by towns, on 1st January 2010, the weight of urban population was 55.1 %, and the weight of the rural population was 44.9 % of the total population. The rural environment representing 44.9% of the total population is grouped into 2860 villages with a degree of connection to wastewater treatment plants of only 11.21 %. At the moment the design of treatment plants, regardless of the structure and size of the settlement, is performed in a non-differentiated way, using the same technological methods for urban and rural areas. The implementation of technical solutions that are use for urban areas in case of small and very small towns’ claims high investment costs and especially operational costs, the efficiency of these solutions being unsatisfactory, because of wrong adoption of sizing parameters, for example, the influent specific flow. From this paper will result, based on case studies, that the specific flow sizing treatment plants for rural areas is overrated, much too high, resulting in oversized treatment plants.

Keywords:

wastewater, specific flow, treatment plant, design, Romania.

Code [ID]:

JESR201404V20S01A0008 [0004187]

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