EP0128923A1 - Method and means of purifying sewage - Google Patents

Method and means of purifying sewage

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EP0128923A1
EP0128923A1 EP84900118A EP84900118A EP0128923A1 EP 0128923 A1 EP0128923 A1 EP 0128923A1 EP 84900118 A EP84900118 A EP 84900118A EP 84900118 A EP84900118 A EP 84900118A EP 0128923 A1 EP0128923 A1 EP 0128923A1
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Tore Johan Gedde
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    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C02—TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE
    • C02F—TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE
    • C02F3/00—Biological treatment of water, waste water, or sewage
    • C02F3/02—Aerobic processes
    • C02F3/12—Activated sludge processes
    • C02F3/1205—Particular type of activated sludge processes
    • C02F3/1215—Combinations of activated sludge treatment with precipitation, flocculation, coagulation and separation of phosphates
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C02—TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE
    • C02F—TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE
    • C02F3/00—Biological treatment of water, waste water, or sewage
    • C02F3/02—Aerobic processes
    • C02F3/04—Aerobic processes using trickle filters
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C02—TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE
    • C02F—TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE
    • C02F3/00—Biological treatment of water, waste water, or sewage
    • C02F3/02—Aerobic processes
    • C02F3/12—Activated sludge processes
    • C02F3/1236—Particular type of activated sludge installations
    • C02F3/1242—Small compact installations for use in homes, apartment blocks, hotels or the like
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02W—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO WASTEWATER TREATMENT OR WASTE MANAGEMENT
    • Y02W10/00—Technologies for wastewater treatment
    • Y02W10/10—Biological treatment of water, waste water, or sewage

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  • the present invention relates to a method and a plant for purifying water, especially household effluent, i.e. bath water, dish washing water and possibly effluent from toilets and the like.
  • Sewer purification normally comprises at least one or seve ⁇ ral of the following methods of purification: i.e. primary treatment, biological treatment, and chemical treatment, precipitated particles being removed either by sedimentation, flotation, filtration,ane. possibly by centrifugation as well.
  • the contaminants present are de ⁇ compose by microorganisms, beeing uniformly suspended in the water to be treated in so called activated sludge plants and in biological filters, where the microorganisms are present on the surface of a carrier that is contacted with the water to be treated.
  • certain chemicals are added that cause the contaminants to precipi ⁇ tate, whereafter they may be removed mechanically.
  • Suitable precipitants are soluble salts of tri- valent metals, e.g. iron or aluminium.
  • Purification of effluent will normally comprise the three above mentioned methods of purification in said sequence, i.e. mechanical treatment, biological treatment,and chemical treatment.
  • the sludge formed in the biological treatment of the effluent and from the chemical treatment also, has to be re-treated or conditioned before it is deposited.
  • Said re-treatment of precipitated sludge can be time consuming for small plants intended for private use, and the user can find it difficult to get rid of the sludge in a satisfactory manner.
  • a bio-filter generally only having a purification effect in the order of 25% as regards phosphorous, this would mean that approx. 75% of the supplied phosphates are discharged from the above mentioned combination plants.
  • the present purification plant which may suitably comprise a possibly separate deposition tank for effluent or the deposition tank may be a sedimentation tank, where pre- cipitants are added. It is, however, prefered to use a se ⁇ parate deposition tank which makes it easier to check the process.
  • the method comprises pumping effluent from the deposition tank into the precipitation tank, and in connection with this immediately adding precipitants, where ⁇ upon the effluent with added chemicals is left in said precipitation tank, so that the precipitated material can ' sink to the bottom of the approximately conical precipitation tank.
  • the precipitated sludge is pumped out of the precipitation tank and into a decomposition chamber for sludge, said chamber preferably being a compart ⁇ ment of a biological toilet, as further described below.
  • a decomposition chamber for sludge said chamber preferably being a compart ⁇ ment of a biological toilet, as further described below.
  • the treated effluent is discharged through an outlet provided at a suitable distance from the bottom of said precipitation tank.
  • the clarified water above said outlet can be discharged directly into a sewer pipe or a recipient, said treated water being substan ⁇ tially free from impurities that are harmful to the environ ⁇ ment, especially phosphates. Said water is, thus, deemed harmless as regards pollution.
  • the precipitants are added substantially at the same time as the effluent is transferred from the deposition tank to the precipitation tank, and the clarified water thas was treated with chemicals is, then, circulated across a biological filter.
  • said effluent may at first be treated across a biological filter and the precipitants may be added afterwards. It is possible to combine the sequence by adding precipitants, then circulated the clarified water across a biological filter and then adding further precipi ⁇ tants to cause a secondary precipitation.
  • the precipitated sludge in the precipitation tank is transferred to a decom ⁇ position chamber without any further treatment.
  • said chamber may preferably be a compartment of a multi- compartment biological toilet, e.g. of the kind described in NO-PS 128 957.
  • the multi-chamber biological toilet may advantageously be provided above the deposition tank and have a perforated bottom enabling excessive water being transferred with the pumped sludge to flow down and into said deposition tank. Excessive urine can also flow through the biological toilet into said deposition tank, so that there is no accumulation of urine in said biological toilet.
  • the deposition tank being provided below said biological toilet, the heat from the supplied effluent can be utilized to maintain suitable decomposition conditions in said bio ⁇ logical toilet.
  • the present method will now be described with reference to the attached drawing diagrammatically showing a plant for carrying out the present method.
  • the plant comprises a deposition tank 1 for effluent as well as strained water and excess urine, said strained water and excess urine coming from a multi-chamber biological toilet 2, provided above said plant and having a perforated bottom 11.
  • the deposition tank is sized to receive the waste water from the household where said plant is installed over a period of 12-24 hours.
  • the waste water from tank 1 is transferred through pipes 3, 3' by pumps PI to a precipitation tank 4, the lower portion of which 4* is conical to facilitate collection and concent ⁇ ration of the precipitated sludge.
  • chemicals are added by a pump from a container of chemicals K, e.g. via pipe 5 to pipe 3'. In this manner thorough mixture of effluent and the added chemicals, e.g. in the form of an aqueous solution of aluminium sulphate, is secured
  • Initiation of the pumping action for pumping effluent to the precipitation tank 4, and initiation of the pump for chemical may be controlled by a conventional time-lag relay or another suitable control system.
  • the transfer of effluent may either be time based or controlled by a level switch in the depo ⁇ sition tank (not shown) .
  • the three-way valve changes over and the clarified water in tank 4 is circulated by the aid of pump P3 through pipe 8, across biological filter 9, wherein a biological purification of the effluent is obtained.
  • Said biological filter is of a conventional kind, i.e. a filter provided with a filling having a large specific surface where an activated sludge may grow.
  • the effluent is circu ⁇ lated for 6 to 7 hours across said biological filter.
  • circulation pump 3 is stopped and the purified water is left for further 45 to 60 minutes.
  • Any solid particles and sludge can, thus, sink below the level of a discharge pipe 10, through which the purified and clarified water is discharged by a suitable pum (not shown) and a magnetic valve controlled by the control unit.
  • the pumped out clarified and purified water can, thus, be conducted directly to a municipal sewage or it may, if desired, be used for irrigation or the like.
  • Said deposition tank being provided below a biological toilet in the preferred embodiment, it is possible to connect one or several water closets of the kind that use a minimal amount of wash water to said biological toilet.
  • the utilized wash water will be filtrated through the perforated bottom of the biological toilet and flow down into said deposition tank, and after a retention period there of approx. 12 hours in the shown embodiment, the collected effluent will be transferred to the precipitation tank 4 for purification. In this manner the applicability of a biological toilet can be extended, since it is no longer necessary that faeces etc are supplied to the biological toilet via a straight drop tube.
  • the air generally extracted from a biofilter by a ventilator can in stead of being discharged into the atmosphere be conducted through the biofilter to enhance the biological purification.
  • Chamber 2 which in the embodiment described above is one of several chambers of a biological toilet, may naturally be any suitable tank, preferably provided above said deposition tank, and has a perforated bottom. Said perforated bottom may be covered with peat litter, conditioned bark of the kind that is used as a soil improving medium or the like, which will act as a filtering material for the sludge that is pumped out of the lower portion 4' of the precipitation tank 4.
  • the biological toilet shown in NO-PS No. 128 957 has a heat ⁇ ing element provided in its bottom to enhance the bacterio ⁇ logical disintegration of faeces and other solid waste.
  • a heating element can either be eliminated or the current consumption may be reduced as ⁇ _ is not necessary to use heat to evaporate the liquid tricklin through the inner container of the toilet.
  • Excessive liquid will now flow down into said deposition tank 1 and heat from the effluent in said deposition tank will both ensure an approximately correct temperature and a moist atmosphere in the biological toilet. It is, thus, possible to operate the biological toilet without supply of too much electric energy to maintain the correct temperature in said biological toilet.
  • the amount of supplied precipitants is determined empirically from the size of the plant and the load it is subjected to, and the concentration and composition of the supplied pre ⁇ cipitant is easily adapted to the actual conditions for obtaining an optimal precipitation, especially of the present phosphates.
  • the completery purified water that is discharged from the precipitation tank 4 via pipe 10 may be checked by the user as to its content of phosphates and its pH by simple methods of analysis generally based on a colorimetric measurement.
  • T r ⁇ G:._H_ approximately 12 hours later, before being discharged via pipe 10. It showed a total content of phosphorous of 0,68 mg/1, which is far below the present re ⁇ uirements as regards the content of phosphorous in effluent.
  • a plant as described above was tested in a household of 3 persons and all waste water from utility sinks etc. was conducted to the deposition container, whereas faeces, urine and kitchen waste were deposited in one of the chambers of a biological toilet of the kind described in NO-PS No. 128 957.
  • the sludge pumped from the precipitation tank was conducted to another one of the chambers of the biological toilet. Said sludge is disintegrated and turned into a soil like structure in the same manner as faeces and kitchen waste that is disintegrated in the other chamber of the biological toilet. After a suitable period of disintegration it may be used as a nutritious soil improving substance together with the residual disintegrated material from the biological toilet.
  • valves and pumps may be controlled by a suitable time relay or even better, by a programmable miro processor based unit, that is to day a standard commercially available product and is able to control a number of functions, e.g. the various pumps and valves necessary to carry out the above described method.
  • Another advantage of the present method and plant is that the biological filter will not degenerate during possible non-use due to a vacation, because liquid will be circulated across said biological filter as well as through the sludge collected in chamber 2 , so that the biological filter will neither dry up og "die” because of lack of nutrition.
  • the effluent transferred to tank 4' is cautiously agitated.
  • a cautious agitation or movement of the effluent in 0 tank 4' can be achieved by a heating element provided around a portion of the tank 4 ' or partly arranged within said tank.
  • This heating preferably by an external heating element can be controlled by the above mentioned time relay .
  • the heat induced agitation of the water may,thus, be maintained 5 for a suitable periode, e.g. for 20 to 60 minutes.
  • the present method and plant have the advantage that the biological filter will not dry up or "die” due to lack of nutrition when the users are absent, e. Q g. due to vacation.

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Abstract

Une installation de traitement d'un effluent comprend un réservoir de précipitation (4), conçu de préférence avec une partie conique inférieure (4'), un cabinet de toilette biologique (2), de préférence un cabinet de toilette biologique à chambres multiples, un filtre biologique (9), un réservoir de dépôt (1) disposé sous le cabinet de toilette biologique et séparé de ce dernier par un fond épurateur perforé (11) disposé entre le cabinet de toilette biologique et un réservoir de dépôt de sable, une tuyauterie (3, 3') permettant de transférer l'effluent vers le réservoir de précipitation (4), des moyens (K, P2, 5) permettant d'ajouter des agents de précipitation à l'effluent dans le réservoir de précipitation (4), des systèmes de tuyauterie (6, 6') permettant de transférer la boue précipitée depuis la partie inférieure (4') du réservoir de précipitation (4) vers une chambre du cabinet de toilette biologique (2), un système de tuyauterie (P3, 6, 8) permettant de faire circuler l'eau chimiquement purifiée au travers du filtre biologique (9), et un tuyau (10) de décharge de l'eau clarifiée depuis le réservoir de précipitation (4). Un procédé d'utilisation de cette installation est également décrit.An effluent treatment installation comprises a precipitation tank (4), preferably designed with a lower conical part (4 ′), a biological toilet (2), preferably a biological multiple-toilet, a biological filter (9), a deposit tank (1) arranged under the biological toilet cabinet and separated from the latter by a perforated purifying bottom (11) disposed between the biological toilet cabinet and a sand deposit tank, a piping (3, 3 ') for transferring the effluent to the precipitation tank (4), means (K, P2, 5) for adding precipitation agents to the effluent in the precipitation tank (4 ), piping systems (6, 6 ') making it possible to transfer the precipitated sludge from the lower part (4') of the precipitation tank (4) to a chamber of the biological toilet cabinet (2), a piping system ( P3, 6, 8) to circulate the chem water ically purified through the biological filter (9), and a pipe (10) for discharging the clarified water from the precipitation tank (4). A method of using this installation is also described.

Description

Method and means of purifying sewage.
The present invention relates to a method and a plant for purifying water, especially household effluent, i.e. bath water, dish washing water and possibly effluent from toilets and the like.
Sewer purification normally comprises at least one or seve¬ ral of the following methods of purification: i.e. primary treatment, biological treatment, and chemical treatment, precipitated particles being removed either by sedimentation, flotation, filtration,ane. possibly by centrifugation as well.
In biological treatment the contaminants present are de¬ compose by microorganisms, beeing uniformly suspended in the water to be treated in so called activated sludge plants and in biological filters, where the microorganisms are present on the surface of a carrier that is contacted with the water to be treated. In chemical treatment certain chemicals are added that cause the contaminants to precipi¬ tate, whereafter they may be removed mechanically.
Examples of suitable precipitants are soluble salts of tri- valent metals, e.g. iron or aluminium.
Purification of effluent will normally comprise the three above mentioned methods of purification in said sequence, i.e. mechanical treatment, biological treatment,and chemical treatment.
Generally, the sludge formed in the biological treatment of the effluent and from the chemical treatment, also, has to be re-treated or conditioned before it is deposited. Said re-treatment of precipitated sludge can be time consuming for small plants intended for private use, and the user can find it difficult to get rid of the sludge in a satisfactory manner.
It is previously known to combine a biological purification plant with a biological dry closet, as e.g. stated in the^ Norwegian Patent Application No. 79 container portion of the dry closet is immerged in an equalizing basin inter alia to permit utilization of the effluent to heat the compost in the dry closet portion. A combination of a plant for effluent purification and a dry closet is also shown in the Norwegian Patent Application No. 78 2952, wherein sludge from a precipitation tank is pumped into a strainer or the like containing the dry closet portion. The water passing through said strainer is returned to the precipitation tank through a pipe. When the strainer is full it is emptied to the compost portion in the dry closet. In both known combinations a bio-filter of the kind mentioned above is used.
A bio-filter generally only having a purification effect in the order of 25% as regards phosphorous, this would mean that approx. 75% of the supplied phosphates are discharged from the above mentioned combination plants.
Thus, there is a demand for a method and a plant by the aid of which it is possible to remove a substantially larger portion of the phosphates present in the effluent. In the present method, thus, chemical precipitation is utilized combined with a special arrangement of the biological toilet in relation to a deposition tank.
In the present method effluent is purified in an efficient manner by the present purification plant which may suitably comprise a possibly separate deposition tank for effluent or the deposition tank may be a sedimentation tank, where pre- cipitants are added. It is, however, prefered to use a se¬ parate deposition tank which makes it easier to check the process. Briefly, the method comprises pumping effluent from the deposition tank into the precipitation tank, and in connection with this immediately adding precipitants, where¬ upon the effluent with added chemicals is left in said precipitation tank, so that the precipitated material can ' sink to the bottom of the approximately conical precipitation tank. After a predetermined interval the precipitated sludge is pumped out of the precipitation tank and into a decomposition chamber for sludge, said chamber preferably being a compart¬ ment of a biological toilet, as further described below. When the sludge transfer to said decomposition chamber is substantially completed, the residual effluent in said pre¬ cipitation tank relieved of sludge is circulated across a biological filter for a predetermined time, and the effluent is, thus, subjected to further biological purification. When purification across the biological filter is substantially completed the treated effluent is again left for further precipitation of a minor amount of sludge settling on the bottom of the precipitation tank. The treated effluent is discharged through an outlet provided at a suitable distance from the bottom of said precipitation tank. The clarified water above said outlet can be discharged directly into a sewer pipe or a recipient, said treated water being substan¬ tially free from impurities that are harmful to the environ¬ ment, especially phosphates. Said water is, thus, deemed harmless as regards pollution.
As mentioned above, the precipitants are added substantially at the same time as the effluent is transferred from the deposition tank to the precipitation tank, and the clarified water thas was treated with chemicals is, then, circulated across a biological filter. In certain cases, depending on the quality of the effluent, said effluent may at first be treated across a biological filter and the precipitants may be added afterwards. It is possible to combine the sequence by adding precipitants, then circulated the clarified water across a biological filter and then adding further precipi¬ tants to cause a secondary precipitation.
As will appear from the following, completely satisfactory purification of the effluent is, however, achieved when pre¬ cipitants are added at first and clarification is carried out afterwards, whereafter further purification is achieved across the biological filter. It is a feature of the present method that the precipitated sludge in the precipitation tank is transferred to a decom¬ position chamber without any further treatment. As mentioned, said chamber may preferably be a compartment of a multi- compartment biological toilet, e.g. of the kind described in NO-PS 128 957.
The multi-chamber biological toilet may advantageously be provided above the deposition tank and have a perforated bottom enabling excessive water being transferred with the pumped sludge to flow down and into said deposition tank. Excessive urine can also flow through the biological toilet into said deposition tank, so that there is no accumulation of urine in said biological toilet.
The deposition tank being provided below said biological toilet, the heat from the supplied effluent can be utilized to maintain suitable decomposition conditions in said bio¬ logical toilet.
The present method will now be described with reference to the attached drawing diagrammatically showing a plant for carrying out the present method. The plant comprises a deposition tank 1 for effluent as well as strained water and excess urine, said strained water and excess urine coming from a multi-chamber biological toilet 2, provided above said plant and having a perforated bottom 11. The deposition tank is sized to receive the waste water from the household where said plant is installed over a period of 12-24 hours.
The waste water from tank 1 is transferred through pipes 3, 3' by pumps PI to a precipitation tank 4, the lower portion of which 4* is conical to facilitate collection and concent¬ ration of the precipitated sludge. At the same time as the effluent is transferred from tank 1 to precipitation tank 4 chemicals are added by a pump from a container of chemicals K, e.g. via pipe 5 to pipe 3'. In this manner thorough mixture of effluent and the added chemicals, e.g. in the form of an aqueous solution of aluminium sulphate, is secured
Initiation of the pumping action for pumping effluent to the precipitation tank 4, and initiation of the pump for chemical may be controlled by a conventional time-lag relay or another suitable control system. The transfer of effluent may either be time based or controlled by a level switch in the depo¬ sition tank (not shown) .
When the effluent with the added precipitant has been intro¬ duced into said precipitation tank, it is left for a suitable period, e.g. 4 hours, which is enough for the system in question to let the precipitated sludge sink to the bottom 4* of precipitation chamber 4. Now the control system starts a pump P3, which removes the sludge by sucktion within a few minutes by the aid of discharge funnel T and transfers it to one of the chambers in the biological toilet 2 by three-way valve 7 and pipes 6 and 6'. After complete or substantially complete transference of ths sludge to said biological toilet the three-way valve changes over and the clarified water in tank 4 is circulated by the aid of pump P3 through pipe 8, across biological filter 9, wherein a biological purification of the effluent is obtained. Said biological filter is of a conventional kind, i.e. a filter provided with a filling having a large specific surface where an activated sludge may grow. The effluent is circu¬ lated for 6 to 7 hours across said biological filter. Then circulation pump 3 is stopped and the purified water is left for further 45 to 60 minutes. Any solid particles and sludge can, thus, sink below the level of a discharge pipe 10, through which the purified and clarified water is discharged by a suitable pum (not shown) and a magnetic valve controlled by the control unit. The pumped out clarified and purified water can, thus, be conducted directly to a municipal sewage or it may, if desired, be used for irrigation or the like.
The above described cycle is then repeated, and it will be understood that the retention period in the deposit tank
•zvn 1 and in the precipitation tank 4 as well will be 12 hours. There will, thus, be no or very little preliminary fermentat¬ ion or decomposition causing an unpleasant smell.
Said deposition tank being provided below a biological toilet in the preferred embodiment, it is possible to connect one or several water closets of the kind that use a minimal amount of wash water to said biological toilet. The utilized wash water will be filtrated through the perforated bottom of the biological toilet and flow down into said deposition tank, and after a retention period there of approx. 12 hours in the shown embodiment, the collected effluent will be transferred to the precipitation tank 4 for purification. In this manner the applicability of a biological toilet can be extended, since it is no longer necessary that faeces etc are supplied to the biological toilet via a straight drop tube.
The air generally extracted from a biofilter by a ventilator can in stead of being discharged into the atmosphere be conducted through the biofilter to enhance the biological purification.
Chamber 2, which in the embodiment described above is one of several chambers of a biological toilet, may naturally be any suitable tank, preferably provided above said deposition tank, and has a perforated bottom. Said perforated bottom may be covered with peat litter, conditioned bark of the kind that is used as a soil improving medium or the like, which will act as a filtering material for the sludge that is pumped out of the lower portion 4' of the precipitation tank 4.
The biological toilet shown in NO-PS No. 128 957 has a heat¬ ing element provided in its bottom to enhance the bacterio¬ logical disintegration of faeces and other solid waste. In the shown embodiment such a heating element can either be eliminated or the current consumption may be reduced as ± _ is not necessary to use heat to evaporate the liquid tricklin through the inner container of the toilet. Excessive liquid will now flow down into said deposition tank 1 and heat from the effluent in said deposition tank will both ensure an approximately correct temperature and a moist atmosphere in the biological toilet. It is, thus, possible to operate the biological toilet without supply of too much electric energy to maintain the correct temperature in said biological toilet.
The precipirated sludge from the precipitation tank 4 being collected in chamber 2, that may be one of several chambers of a biological toilet or a similar container, no problems will arise in connection with getting rid of the sludge that is disintegrated in the same manner as in a biological toilet of the kind that is described in NO-PS No. 128 957, that is, in fact officially accepted as being harmless to environment.
The amount of supplied precipitants is determined empirically from the size of the plant and the load it is subjected to, and the concentration and composition of the supplied pre¬ cipitant is easily adapted to the actual conditions for obtaining an optimal precipitation, especially of the present phosphates.
The completery purified water that is discharged from the precipitation tank 4 via pipe 10 may be checked by the user as to its content of phosphates and its pH by simple methods of analysis generally based on a colorimetric measurement.
During operation of a test plant such simple methods of analysis were found satisfactory and analyses carried out by The laboratory of water analysis in Buskerud, Norway, showed that the content of phosphorous in the effluent trans¬ ferred from the deposition tank 1 to the precipitation tank 4 was 11 mg/1. After precipitation and purification across a biological filter as described above the water was analysed
T r Λ G:._H_ approximately 12 hours later, before being discharged via pipe 10. It showed a total content of phosphorous of 0,68 mg/1, which is far below the present reσuirements as regards the content of phosphorous in effluent.
A plant as described above was tested in a household of 3 persons and all waste water from utility sinks etc. was conducted to the deposition container, whereas faeces, urine and kitchen waste were deposited in one of the chambers of a biological toilet of the kind described in NO-PS No. 128 957. The sludge pumped from the precipitation tank was conducted to another one of the chambers of the biological toilet. Said sludge is disintegrated and turned into a soil like structure in the same manner as faeces and kitchen waste that is disintegrated in the other chamber of the biological toilet. After a suitable period of disintegration it may be used as a nutritious soil improving substance together with the residual disintegrated material from the biological toilet.
As. will appear from the above mentioned it is possible to remove fresh sludge from the precipitation tank in a simple manner and to collect said sludge in a chamber where the conditions for biological disintegration to a mold like material can easily be achieved. The necessary valves and pumps may be controlled by a suitable time relay or even better, by a programmable miro processor based unit, that is to day a standard commercially available product and is able to control a number of functions, e.g. the various pumps and valves necessary to carry out the above described method. Another advantage of the present method and plant is that the biological filter will not degenerate during possible non-use due to a vacation, because liquid will be circulated across said biological filter as well as through the sludge collected in chamber 2 , so that the biological filter will neither dry up og "die" because of lack of nutrition.
When a suitable amount of sludge has been collected in cham- ber 2 said chamber may be turned if a biological toilet of the above mentioned kind is used.Thus, sludge will then be collected in another chamber and the filled chamber is left j- for composting for a suitable period.
To promote flocculation after addition of chemicals the effluent transferred to tank 4' is cautiously agitated. Such a cautious agitation or movement of the effluent in 0 tank 4' can be achieved by a heating element provided around a portion of the tank 4 ' or partly arranged within said tank. This heating, preferably by an external heating element can be controlled by the above mentioned time relay . The heat induced agitation of the water may,thus, be maintained 5 for a suitable periode, e.g. for 20 to 60 minutes.
As previously mentioned, the present method and plant have the advantage that the biological filter will not dry up or "die" due to lack of nutrition when the users are absent, e. Q g. due to vacation. In this connection, it proved advantage¬ ous to adjust the control device for introducing a suitable amount of fresh water, e.g. 30-50 1/day during a period when the users are absent. In this manner a certain amount of fresh water is added to the circulated liquid . 5

Claims

CLAIMS :
1. A method for purifying effluent from at least one 5 household, wherein the effluent is subjected to precipitation treatment and precipitated sludge is transferred to a bio¬ logical toilet for composting, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n that said effluent is collected in a deposition tank and is then transferred to a precipitation tank, where a
■JQ precipitant is added, and that precipitated sludge after a period of rest is transferred to a biological toilet, and that excessive water in the sludge is permitted to flow down into the deposition tank below, and wherein the chemically purified water is then conducted across a biological filter
<I for decomposition of organical material, whereafter the biologically purified water is left for clarification and the clarified water is discharged from the plant and is, if desired, conducted to sewage.
20 2. A plant for carrying out the method as claimed in claim 1, comprising a precipitation tank (4) , preferably shaped with a lower conical portion (4'), a biological toilet (2) , preferably a multi-chamber biological toilet, a biological filter (9) - c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n a
25 deposition tank (1) , arranged below said biological toilet and separated from the latter by a perforated strainer bottom (11) , provided between said biological toilet and said deposition tank, piping (3,3*) for transferring effluent to the precipitation tank (4) , means (K, P2, 5) for adding
30 precipitants to the effluent in the precipitation tank (4), a piping system (6,6') for transferring precipitated sludge from the lower portion (4') of said precipitation tank (4) to a chamber in said biological toilet (2) , a piping system (P3, 6,8) for circulating the chemically purified water
35 across said biological filter (9), and a pipe (10) for dis¬ charging clarified water from said precipitation tank (4) .
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