The design, construction and maintenance of sewage disposal works ; being a practical guide to modern methods of sewage purification / by Hugh P. Raikes.

  • Raikes, Hugh Percival.
Date:
1908
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    possible extent; but although efforts are still being made to find some method of rapidly effecting the complete purifica- tion of sewage in one stage, far greater success has generally been achieved when no attempt has been made to combine the diametrically opposite conditions which are favourable to liquefying and oxidation by anaerobic and aerobic bacteria respectively, but rather to utilise the special powers of each to the best advantage by encouraging their action in two successive stages. REFERENCES FOR INTRODUCTION. Sewage and Sewage Purification. By Dr. S. Rideal, 1906. Interim and Third Reports of the Royal Commission on Sewage Disposal, ]901 and 1903. Reports to the Massachusetts State Board of Health on Lawrence Experiments. Reports on Sewage Purification at Columbus, Ohio. By G. A. Johnson. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 32. Recherches sur I'Epuration biologique et chimique des eaux d'egout a Lille. Par le Dr. A. Calmette. Die Biologische Abwasserreinigung in Deutschland. Von K. Imphoff.