Determine the Required Log Reductions of Human Intestinal Helminth Eggs by Waste Stabilization Pond: A Simulation for Wastewater Recycling in Agriculture

• Main Authors: Faskol Adel S., Racoviteanu Gabriel
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2019-03-01
• Series: Mathematical Modelling in Civil Engineering
• Subjects: safe re-use wastewater practices; nematode eggs removal in climatic conditions of libya; pc-based monte carlo simulation
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2478/mmce-2019-0002

This paper investigates the determined the required log reductions for human intestinal helminth eggs by waste stabilization ponds as simulation as assessing of mitigating health risk to satisfy practice WHO, 2006 guidelines for the safe use of wastewater in agriculture (≤ 0.1 helminth egg/L) to protect the health of children under 15 years was the development of MATLAB, a computer program based waste stabilization ponds design based on parameter uncertainty and 10,000-trial Monte Carlo simulations were developed for a series of anaerobic, facultative and maturation ponds based on 95%-ile of effluent (≤ 0.1 helminth egg/L) which the result in a health-based target. Whereas the influent of the helminth eggs (Nematode) was (932.500 eggs/L). While the treatment provided (100 % reduction/removal) for the overall treatment process with total hydraulic retention time in climatic conditions of Libya it took 36.207 days in the anaerobic pond, facultative pond, first maturation pond and one of the subsequent maturation pond.