Ocean Disposal of Wastewater

by Wood, I. R.; Bell, Robert G.; Wilkinson, Deanna L.

• ISBN13: 9789810209568
• ISBN10: 9810209568
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-02-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

This book offers a comprehensive study on the subject of ocean disposal of treated and untreated sewage waste. The early chapters cover the philosophy of outfall design, properties of sewage from developed towns and an overview of water quality regulations in New Zealand, Great Britain and the U.S. Alternative ways of satisfying these regulations are discussed. The book also provides information required to design outfall pipelines and diffusers. The methods of calculating the initial dilution and the investigations necessary to compute the further dispersion of the effluent are discussed. A brief discussion of the problems of salt water intrusion, of outfall construction and post construction monitoring is presented at the end of the book.

Table of Contents

Ocean Disposal of Wastewater	p. 1
The Standards for Water Quality and the Legislation For These Standards	p. 9
The Quality of Untreated and Treated Effluent	p. 20
The Behaviour of a Buoyant Jet in a Stationary Uniform Environment	p. 25
The Behaviour of a Merging Array of Buoyant Jets in a Stationary Uniform Environment	p. 48
The Dilutions from a Standard Diffuser	p. 71
The Creation of the Effluent Field at the Ocean Surface	p. 85
The Behaviour of Single and Merging Buoyant Jets in a Stratified Ocean	p. 98
The Preliminary Design for the Initial Dilution in a Stationary Ambient Fluid	p. 117
The Detailed Diffuser Design	p. 129
The Effect of Currents on the Initial Dilution of a Buoyant Jet Rising in an Unstratified Fluid	p. 137
The Effects of a Moving Stratified Fluid on Initial Dilution of a Single Buoyant Jet	p. 186
Ground Effects and the Effect of a Current on the Instability of Single Buoyant Plumes	p. 197
The Effects of Currents on the Final Submerged or Surface Field	p. 204
Oceanographic Investigations for Outfalls	p. 234
Inactivation of Faecal Indicator Bacteria	p. 266
Numerical Modelling of Wastewater Plume Advection, Dispersion and Decay	p. 284
Tunnelled Ocean Outfalls	p. 316
Outfall Monitoring	p. 348
Outfall Construction	p. 360
Appendix 1 The Most Probable Number	p. 376
Appendix 2 The Toxicity Unit	p. 377
Appendix 3 The Calculation of the Density of Fresh and Salt Water	p. 378
Appendix 4 The Behaviour of a Buoyant Fluid Ejected at an Arbitrary Angle to the Flow	p. 379
References	p. 386
Index	p. 416
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