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polishing treatment [1 record]

Record 1 1988-12-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wastewater Treatment
CONT

In the interests of the consumer's health, filtration is regarded as a finishing process which can be still further improved by polishing treatments.

OBS

"polishing": A general term for those treatment processes that are applied after conventional ones.

OBS

"polishing": A tertiary treatment process in which the effluent is filtered through or subjected to activated carbon in such a manner that it emerges 99% free of suspended solids.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement des eaux usées
CONT

Le souci de la santé du consommateur conduit à considérer la filtration comme un finissage que des traitements d'affinage peuvent encore parfaire.

OBS

"affinage" : Ce mot est souvent employé dans l'expression "traitement d'affinage des eaux destinées à la consommation humaine" qui désigne principalement le traitement par le charbon actif et par l'ozone en vue d'éliminer les micropolluants. Il est synonyme de "polissage".

OBS

voir aussi "polissage" dans Termium.

Spanish

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