Chapter 42 - Environmental Micro Flashcards

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domestic sewage or liquid industrial waste

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wastewater

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most important source that can become contaminated and diseased

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water

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relies on industrial scale use of microbes for bioconversion

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wastewater treatment

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discharged treated waste water

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effluent water

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primary wastewater treatment is blank like screening

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physical

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primary treatment of water removes blank material and forms blank

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solid, sludge

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secondary treatment of water is blank like using microbes to digest dissolved organic matter

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biological

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when waste effluent is passed over rocks/solid materials with microbial biofilms

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trickling filter

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anyphysiochemical or biological process employing bioreactors, precipitation, filtration, or chlorination procedures

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tertiary treatment

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reduces amount of sludge produced by using microbial biomass for energy requirements

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extended aeration

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