Sanitary engineering : a practical treatise on the collection, removal and final disposal of sewage, and the design and construction of works of drainage and sewerage, with a special chapter on the disposal of house refuse and sewage sludge, and numerous hydraulic tables, formulae & memoranda, including an extensive series of tables of velocity & discharge of pipes & sewers, especially computed by Ganguillet and Kutter's formula / by E.C.S. Moore.

  • Moore, E. C. S. (Edward Crozier Sibbald), 1844-
Date:
1898
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Credit: Sanitary engineering : a practical treatise on the collection, removal and final disposal of sewage, and the design and construction of works of drainage and sewerage, with a special chapter on the disposal of house refuse and sewage sludge, and numerous hydraulic tables, formulae & memoranda, including an extensive series of tables of velocity & discharge of pipes & sewers, especially computed by Ganguillet and Kutter's formula / by E.C.S. Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    CHAPTER XIV.—SEWAGE DISPOSAL—{cmthiurd). of Sewage—Reports on—Bacteriolysis—Massachusetts Experiments, paper by Sir Douglas Galton, K.C. B., &c.—-Lowcock's Filter—Scott-Moncrieff's Culti- vation Filter Bed—Warings Filter—Summary of Results obtained by Colonel G. E. Waring, junr.—Discussion—Mr. Dibdin's Experiments—Bacteria Tank at Sutton—Method of Applying the Sewage—Action of the Filter—Purifica- tion of Sewage by the Oxygen System—The Scientific Principles of Sewage Purification—The Oxygen System of Sewage Purification—Trade Effluents—Tanks —Adaptability of Existing Works for the Oxygen System—The Cost—The Garfield Filter—The Salford Experiments—Septic Tank System—Aerated Bacterial Self- Acting Filter (Colonel Ducat's Patent)—The Purification of Sewage by Bacterial Oxidation and Forced Aeration, by Colonel G. E. Waring, junr., M.I.C.E.— The Scott-Moncrietf System—The Classification of the Organisms which Purify Sewage—Tiieir Cajjacity to carry on the Work of Purification—The Latest Developments of the System—After Liquefaction takes Place—Sewage Disposal at Barking, Beddington, Mangotsfield, Bristol, Chichester, Crossness, Glasgow, Heudon, Hitchin, Ipswich, Newport (U.S.A.), Nuneaton, Richmond, Salford, Southampton, Sutton, Wimbledon, Wolverhampton, &c., &c. ... ... 426 CHAPTER XV.—DISPOSAL OF SLUDGE AND HOUSE REFUSE. House Refuse—Collection of—Dr. Young's Rejtorts on Methods of Collection and Disposal of House Refn.se in London—Cost of Removal—Mechanical Sorting— Dispo,sal of Sludge—Methods of—Evaporation—Wimbledon Sludge Disposal Works—Jlechanical Treatment—Weight of Sluiige Cake—Sludge Manure— Johnson and Hutchinson's Pneumatic System—Destruction—General Remarks on Refuse Destructors —Cost of Construction of—Cost of Destruction—Analysis of Ashbin Refuse—Utilisation of Waste Heat for Raisin;^; Steam and Electric Lighting—Power Available for these Purposes—Two Classes of Destructors— Fryers Patent—Mr. Jones's Improvements—Fume Cremator—Ealing, Di-sposal of Sewage Sludge and House Refuse—Battersea—Liverpool—Leyton—Hereford —Rochdale — Salford — Horsfall Furnace — Warner's Perfectns Destructor— Bennett-Phythian High Pressure Destructor—Beaman and Dcas Destructor— The Meldrum Destructor—Artificial and Forced Draught for Steam Boilers— Power required for Forcing Combustion—Boilers lor use with Destructors— Babcock and Wilcox Boilers—Recent Sanitary Works at Southampton—Com- bined Electricity and Dust Destruction Works, Shoreditch—Re.su]ts obtained at Shoreditch—Feed Thermal Storage—Chimney Shafts for Destructors—Dimen- sions of—General Rules and Formulae—Foundations for—Depth of Foundations Footings—Wind Pressure—Pressure on Solid Bodies of Various Forms—Stability of Chimneys—Cost of Chimneys—Cardiff Report 529 INDEX 605-620 LIST OF PLATES xv LIST OF TABLES xviii LIST OF AUTHORITIES CONSULTED xxi LIST OF MANUFACTURERS WHOSE SPECIALITIES ARE REFERRED TO xxv