doi: 10.18178/ijesd.2022.13.6.1407
Multi-criteria Assessment of Onsite Packaged Wastewater Treatment Systems
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A. Al-Matouq
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miahmed@kisr.edu.kw , ,
Al-Ajeel2
- 1A. Al-Matouq, M. Khajah, H. Abdullah, and F
- 2Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait City
Abstract
Onsite wastewater treatment systems and smallscale packaged wastewater treatment plants have been used ona large scale in developing and developed countries wherecentralized sewerage facilities are not feasible. Generally, onsitesystems continuously work under significant variations in bothquantity and quality of the influent wastewater. Therefore,their suitability needs to be assessed before installation andoperation to ensure their suitability and sustainability. Thispaper aims to define a set of context-specific criteria to assist inselecting the best onsite wastewater treatment system and tobreak down these criteria into measurable parameters.Furthermore, the developed multi-criteria assessment tool wasvalidated using the results of the performance monitoring of aselected wastewater treatment system. This work is importantsince the selection of onsite systems, in many cases, is donebased on declared performance by the supplier and the costsinvolved.
Keywords
- Multi-criteria
- onsite wastewater treatment
- packaged wastewater treatment systems
- wastewater reuse
- wastewater treatment
How to Cite
Mohd Elmuntasir Ahmed, A. Al-Matouq, miahmed@kisr.edu.kw, H. Abdullah, and Al-Ajeel, "Multi-criteria Assessment of Onsite Packaged Wastewater Treatment Systems," International Journal of Environmental Science and Development, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 292-297, 2022. https://doi.org/10.18178/ijesd.2022.13.6.1407
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