Chapter 4
– Sewage Systems and Water Treatment –
A statement about the sewage water treatment plants ( STP ) in the state of Kuwait
Al-Khairan and Sabah Al-Ahmed STP :
The station is located 70 km in Southern Kuwait City. The station was established in 2009 with a designed capacity of 5,600
m3/ day. It receives sewage from AL-Khairan and Sabah Al-Ahmed residential areas. It processed and purified the sewage
water until the water reaches the required quality standards, and then pumped the water to be used for the purposes of
afforestation and agriculture. And it receives wastewater amount of 1500m3. Flow to the station by the attractiveness with a
diameter Line to the lifting station consisting of three pumps to pump the incoming water to solids processing building to be
treated.
The sewage treatment is being treated in this station with treatment basins System (SBR) to produced water treatment trilogy
by 92.1% total of sewage flowing amount of the plant through the following stages:
1. The primary treatment phase (physical therapy) – to remove sediment, sand and oil.
2. Bilateral treatment phase (biological) which works on the (SBR) system, where the wastewater is repeatedly processed
biologically in the same tub to include ventilation and sedimentation.
3. Tertiary treatment phase (sterilization and filtration) where sterilization is done by chlorine and ultraviolet radiation.
4. The station include tank to retain treated water for irrigation purposes and the water are drawing from the reservoir to the
irrigation water pumping station.
5. Also it includes a separate building containing diesel generators be used in case of emergency.
6. The building has a control equipment, paintings and electrical switches and important and necessary displays to control the
operation of all plant parts.
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