Sanitary engineering

Sanitary engineering is a branch of civil engineering that focuses on protecting and promoting public health through the design, construction, and operation of various facilities such as water supply and treatment systems, wastewater collection and treatment plants, drainage systems, and solid waste disposal facilities. It involves the use of technology to implement effective wastewater treatment plants, which is a crucial aspect of the field.From: Computational Hydraulics and Hydrology [2019], Influence of the detergent formulation on the concentration of phosphorus in the sewage inflows to the WWTPs: the Brazilian experience [2018]

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Published in Hillel Rubin, Joseph Atkinson, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 2001

Hillel Rubin, Joseph Atkinson

driven by increased demands (both in quantity and in quality) for treating municipal sewage, as well as increased needs for treating industrial wastes. Sanitary engineering, within the general profession of civil engineering, traditionally dealt with designing water and wastewater collection and treatment systems. This has evolved into the contemporary field of environmental engineering, which now encompasses the general area of water quality modeling, for both surface and groundwater systems. This has necessitated the incorporation of other fields of science, such as chemistry and biology, to address the wider range of problems now being faced in treating waste streams with a variety of characteristics and needs.

Influence of the detergent formulation on the concentration of phosphorus in the sewage inflows to the WWTPs: the Brazilian experience

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Published in Environmental Technology, 2018

Claudia Maria Gomes de Quevedo, Roque Passos Piveli, Wanderley da Silva Paganini

The technological evolution in implementing wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) should be considered as an aspect of fundamental importance within sanitary engineering. Nevertheless, by the growing predictions regarding the depletion of phosphorus natural resources in the environment and the considerable negative consequences to quality of life, there are more and more demands arising from the need to manage the emissions by reducing consumption and increasing reuse and recycling potential.

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Influence of the detergent formulation on the concentration of phosphorus in the sewage inflows to the WWTPs: the Brazilian experience