Determination of the dynamic behavior patterns of wastewater treatment systems, using radiotracer

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Eduardo A. Capote Ferrera
Isis Ma. Fernández Gómez
Milagros Derivet Zarzabal
Jorge A. Carrazana González
Miguel Ángel Bravo Leal
Yusleidy M. Cordovi Miranda
Ramón L. Rodríguez Cardona

Abstract

The treatment of wastewater is a necessary and legally required reality, which has a direct impact on the benefit of water quality, by avoiding its environmental and landscape deterioration. The country has been installing different urban and industrial liquid waste treatment systems to deal with the degradation of marine, coastal, river and urban environmental systems, caused by the direct discharge of wastewater into the environment. Currently there are several technologies that are applied, depending mainly on the volumes of wastewater to be treated. Among the installed technologies, there are the biodiscs, which are installations of discs with a surface covered with biomass under aerobic conditions that, continuously, consume the organic matter present in the influent wastewater and the lamellar settlers, which have the function of separating the semi-heavy and heavy elements in suspension, which contain wastewater. In the present work, the dynamic behavior patterns of these two technologies installed in a wastewater treatment plant with the use of radiotracers are determined.

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Capote Ferrera, E. A., Fernández Gómez, I. M., Zarzabal, M. D., Carrazana González , J. A., Bravo Leal, M. Ángel, Cordovi Miranda, Y. M., & Rodríguez Cardona, R. L. (1). Determination of the dynamic behavior patterns of wastewater treatment systems, using radiotracer. Nucleus, (72), 61-64. Retrieved from http://nucleus.cubaenergia.cu/index.php/nucleus/article/view/776
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