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Solids removal efficiency of primary settling tanks in municipal wastewater treatment plants

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Solids removal efficiency of circular primary settling tanks was correlated, on the basis of several literature data, with overflow velocity, solids concentration in incoming flow and the ratio between settling tank diameter and height. Also the reliability of other correlations proposed in the literature was checked by the available data.

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  1. Cattedra di Principi di Ingegneria Chimica, Faculty of Engineering, University of Rome, via Eudossiana 18-00184, Roma

    M. Cristina Annesini

  2. Cattedra di Impianti Industriali Chimici, Faculty of Sciences, University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Mario Beccari

  3. Water Research Institute, C.N.R., Rome

    Giuseppe Mininni

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Annesini, M.C., Beccari, M. & Mininni, G. Solids removal efficiency of primary settling tanks in municipal wastewater treatment plants. Water Air Soil Pollut 12, 441–447 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01046865

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