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Modeling wastewater VOC emissions. (volatile organic compounds)(excerpt from A Flexible Fate...

By Billings, Clayton H.
Publication: Public Works
Date: Wednesday, July 1 1992

There are several concerns about the presence of volatile organic compounds (VOCS) in wastewater. The compounds will contaminate sludge by partitioning to solid particles. The extent of the partitioning is usually small and the VOCS are destroyed in anaerobic digestion. Regardless, VOC emissions from sludge composting facilities have been reported. VOC mass loadings at most publicly owned treatment works are too low to be detrimental to biological treatment processes. Slugs from industrial waste discharges following upsets can lead to shock loadings. The fraction of VOCs discharge

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