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प्रश्न
What is the key difference between primary and secondary sewage treatment?
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उत्तर
| Sr. No. |
Aspect |
Primary Sewage Treatment | Secondary Sewage Treatment |
| 1. | Nature of Process | Primary sewage treatment is a purely physical process of wastewater purification. | Secondary sewage treatment is a biological process driven by living microorganisms. |
| 2. | Target Material | This treatment focuses on removing floating debris and solid particles, such as grit. | This treatment focuses on degrading the dissolved organic matter in the water. |
| 3. | Mechanism | It achieves purification through sequential filtration and gravitational sedimentation. | It achieves purification using aerobic microbes that form mesh-like structures called flocs. |
| 4. | Impact on BOD | This stage causes little to no reduction in the Biochemical Oxygen Demand of sewage. | This stage significantly reduces the Biochemical Oxygen Demand of the effluent. |
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Explain the different steps involved during primary treatment phase of sewage.
Distinguish between the roles of flocs and anaerobic sludge digesters in sewage treatments.
Three water samples namely river water, untreated sewage water and secondary effluent discharged from a sewage treatment plant were subjected to BOD test. The samples were labelled A, B and C; but the laboratory attendant did not note which was which. The BOD values of the three samples A, B and C were recorded as 20 mg/L, 8 mg/L and 400 mg/L, respectively. Which sample of the water is most polluted? Can you assign the correct label to each, assuming the river water is relatively clean?
Answer the following question.
What are ‘flocs’, formed during secondary treatment of sewage?
Answer the following question.
What are 'flocs', formed during secondary treatment of sewage?
Answer the following question.
Secondary treatment of the sewage is also called Biological treatment. Justify this statement and explain the process.
Name the chamber in which the suspended objects are filtered and removed during sewage treatment?
Small part of activated sludge is passed back into primary sedimentation tank.
If the above statement is correct then rewrite as it is and in case it is incorrect then reframe it.
The purpose of biological treatment of waste water is to ______.
Small part of activated sludge is passed back into ______ and major part is pumped into large tanks called ______.
What happens during the course of sewage decomposition?
Which of the following process is a part of preliminary treatment of sewage?
Which of the following is TRUE regarding 'Flocs'?
In a sewage treatment plant, all of the following processes belong to secondary treatment except:
What would happen if oxygen availability to activated sludge flocs is reduced?
Ganga has recently been declared the national river. Discuss the implication with respect to pollution of this river.
What would happen if a large volume of untreated sewage is discharged into a river?
In what way anaerobic sludge digestion is important in sewage treatments?
Study the given diagram of the Sewage Treatment Plant (S.T.P.) and answer the question that follows:
- Which one of the two 'S.T.P.' (A) or (B) will be more effective in treating the human excreta in municipal waste?
- Write the steps followed in carrying the treatment of the sewage in step (Z), once the BOD of sewage is reduced significantly till it is passed on to the "anaerobic sludge digesters".
Given below is the flowchart of sewage treatment. Identify A, B, C, D and E and select the correct option.
Which one is wrongly matched?
The aeration tank of a sewage treatment plant is not functioning properly. Explain in detail the impact of this on the treatment of sewage and BOD of the effluent.
What is the major component of municipal wastewater (sewage)?
In a sewage treatment plant, grit comprising soil and small pebbles is removed during which stage and process?
Approximately what percentage of suspended solids is removed during primary sedimentation in a sewage treatment plant?
By what percentage does the decomposition of organic matter by aerobic bacteria in aeration tanks typically lower the BOD during secondary treatment?
