1. Waste water treatment facilities will be designed and selected depending on its characteristics.

s. These are: physical, chemical, that is

divided into inorganic and organic, priority pollutants, and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)

2. First is Physical Characteristics.

3. This table shows the common analysis used to assess impurities in wastewater using Physical characteristics that will be discussed further
on the following slides.

4. The table shows that major physical characteristics of a wastewater are its solid content, color, odor, and temperature.

5. Total solid is the mixture of the solids that can or cannot be dissolve in water

6. Suspended solid, in this picture on the right as you can see, the suspended solids are those residues below the mixture.

7. These volatile solids are used to describe the strength of waste in water. The greater the concentration of volatile solids, the stronger the
wastewater

8. These solids can be measured by milliliters per liter. There is a standard test that used Imhoff Cone wherein, wastewater sample is placed
in a 1-liter conical shape container for a period of time. The solids left below are called settleable solids.

9. Another physical characteristic is color.

10. Next is odor, as wastewater is decomposed biologically, several odorous compounds are released. These Hydrogen sulfide is the smell of
rotten egg while other compounds may cause bad odor than hydrogen sulfide.

11. Temperature is very important in waste water treatment. It is because this treatment includes biological processes that it will depend on the
temperature of water whether the bacteria in wastewater will be treated or not. The temperature of wastewater varies from season to
season and geographic location, in cold regions

12. These chemical tests are used to test the suitability of reusing treated wastewater or it will be for disposal. It will also identify if waste water
is affected by priority pollutants which will be discussed later

13. Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD, also called biological oxygen demand) is the amount of dissolved oxygen needed (i.e.,
demanded) by aerobic biological organisms to break down organic material present in a given water sample at certain temperature over a
specific time period.

14. chemical oxygen demand (COD) test is commonly used to indirectly measure the amount of organic compounds in water

15. Total organic carbon (TOC) is the amount of carbon found in an organic compound and is often used as a non-specific indicator of
water quality or cleanliness of pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment.

16. Priority pollutants are often called toxic pollutants that are frequently present in waste water.

17. The type of standards used to control pollutant discharges are Prohibited discharge standards and categorical discharge standards.

18. prohibited discharge standards restrict the discharge of pollutants than may create fire or explosion in sewers or treatment works. These
are the corrosive discharges which have pH<5.0

19. in categorical standards restrict the discharge of those 129 priority pollutants that applies to industrial and commercial discharges in 25
industrial categories

20. as they are mobile or has the capacity to move freely, they can be released and harm the environment

21. this can lead to formation of photochemical oxidants that can also pollute the air.
22. The last one is biological characteristics.

23. As some tests used to determine organic matter in wastewater that involves the use of microorganism. This is called biological tests.

24. And because there are several types of bacteria found in wastewater that are disease carriers, organic decomposition with the use of
biological treatment will be used.