Research Abstracts

Fresh water supply to some remote desert areas in Egypt represents one of the major constraint to development of such areas. The current conventional water supply to remote communities includes pipelines and transportation means such as trucks. However, such methods seem to be very expensive, especi

This study aims to find news a die of purification for a wastewater reuse. Primary effluent contains organic mineral, dissolved and suspended matter (colloids). Microfiltration or ultrafiltration is adequate for producing disinfected clear water suited for different applications. However, direct fil

Treatment and reuse of agricultural drainage water (ADW) is complicated by the presence of soluble organic and inorganic pollutants in addition to hazardous chemicals. Large-scale desalination systems for agricultural drainage water require the development of affordable pretreatment for removal of s

Increasing water shortage in Egypt approaches an alarming level. Treatment and reuse of secondary water sources (comprising brackish water and wastewater) is of current national and international concern. The Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) allocates considerable fundin

The selection of an optimum scheme for treatment of agricultural drainage water for reuse in specific applications is a challenging and tedious task that necessitates the evaluation of a long train of optional treatment processes which involve, among others, alternative desalting systems. The decisi

Increased water demand from population and economic growth, environmental needs, change in rainfall, flood contamination of good quality water and over abstraction of groundwater are all factors that will continue to create water shortage problems. This paper considers alternative solutions, which c

Wastewater is considered a major resource of the water budget in many countries around the world. This has necessitated the expansion of the applications in the industrial sector. This paper presents a feasibility study for 10,000 m3/d wastewater and seawater desalination plants in the UAE. The desa

This paper reports the experimental results of a pilot-scale (100 m3/h) investigation, carried out at the West Bari (S. Italy) municipal wastewater treatment plant, focused on parasite removal and disinfection by-product (DBP) formation during the UV disinfection of clarified (CL) and clarified-filt

In the food and beverage industries, spent process water streams containing very different levels of contamination are combined and routed to the mixing and equalizing tank where problems in biological wastewater treatment occur. It could be shown that the treatment of the partial streams for differ

Agricultural drainage water (ADW) may be considered as a strategic reserve to cope with the ever-increasing demand for fresh water. Numerous technological solutions must be examined to enable safe reuse of the ADW. Three technological sets must be addressed simultaneously. The first set is related t