[The evaluation of effluent water toxicity for the activated sludge in water purification facilities]
Gigiena I Sanitariia
|July 11, 2003
Abstract:
The condition of activated sludge, which predetermines the efficiency of functioning of purification facilities, depends to a great extent on a toxicity degree of waste-waters coming for purification. The results of a study of toxicity of effluents of an industrial enterprise by using the methods of the chemical-and-analytic and toxicological monitoring are described in the article. The conducted investigations made it possible to specify an effluents' flow, which is most toxic for the activated-sludge microorganisms, for the purpose of its further localization.
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