Waste water process assessment and waterborne pathogens ‎removal using bentonite filtration as an eco-friendly ‎technique in Tlemcen city, Algeria

Gaouar-yadi M; Gaouar Benyelles N

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Waste water process assessment and waterborne pathogens ‎removal using bentonite filtration as an eco-friendly ‎technique in Tlemcen city, Algeria

Authors:

Gaouar-yadi M | Gaouar Benyelles N

Publisher:

Université M'hamed Bougara de Boumerdès

Journal:

algerian journal of environmental science and technology Vol.2 Issue 3, pp.17-22

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

12/2016

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001399395

pISSN:

2478-0030

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Abstract:

 Like cities in other arid and semi-arid African countries, Tlemcen ‎is facing population growth problems, water stress, and ‎pollution.‎
This study summarises the findings from assessing a plant’s role ‎and technology in meeting the public health criteria through the ‎waterborne pathogens identification and enumeration, a ‎complete bacteriological analyses were performed and the count ‎of bacteria has been compared between the three studied ‎processes. ‎
Furthermore, this study is dedicated to the study of the bentonite ‎clay technique, which consists of the targeted pollutants removal ‎at limited cost and a better understanding and control of waste ‎water quality.‎
The results of the assessment revealed that activated sludge ‎‎(ASP) treatment plant recorded the highest coliform ‎concentrations with an average of 785.67 MPN/100 ml vs. ‎‎1.28 MPN/100 ml for sequential batch reactor (SBR) and ‎‎0 MPN/100 ml for membrane bioreactor (MBR) treated water.‎
The study disclosed the MBR technology as the most efficient in ‎the pathogenic micro-organisms removal, however, the well-‎known high cost of this technology compared to other processes ‎allowed us to experiment the efficiency of the bentonite clay to ‎get rid of all the pathogens. ‎
Thus, the results of influent and effluent bacterial studies, using ‎bentonite filtering showed a total removal of all counted densities ‎of microorganisms. The latter included total viable counts, total ‎coliform, faecal coliform, faecal Streptococci, Salmonellae, ‎Shigella, Vibrio, Staphylococci, and Listeria.‎

Article Details

Waste water process assessment and waterborne pathogens ‎removal using bentonite filtration as an eco-friendly ‎technique in Tlemcen city, Algeria

Authors:

Gaouar-yadi M | Gaouar Benyelles N

Publisher:

Université M'hamed Bougara de Boumerdès

Journal:

algerian journal of environmental science and technology Vol.2 Issue 3, pp.17-22

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

12/2016

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001399395

pISSN:

2478-0030

Bentonite

‎ bacterial load

‎ process technology

Issues

Article Details

Waste water process assessment and waterborne pathogens ‎removal using bentonite filtration as an eco-friendly ‎technique in Tlemcen city, Algeria

Authors: Gaouar-yadi M | Gaouar Benyelles N

Publisher: Université M'hamed Bougara de Boumerdès

Journal: algerian journal of environmental science and technology Vol.2 Issue 3, pp.17-22

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 12/2016

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2001399395

pISSN: 2478-0030

Bentonite

‎ bacterial load

‎ process technology

Issues

Authors:

Gaouar-yadi M | Gaouar Benyelles N

Publisher:

Université M'hamed Bougara de Boumerdès

Journal:

algerian journal of environmental science and technology Vol.2 Issue 3, pp.17-22

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

12/2016

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001399395

pISSN:

2478-0030