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TRAITEMENT COMPLEMENTAIRE [2 records]

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Record 1 2018-07-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Non-Surgical Treatment
  • Surgery
  • Medication
DEF

A medical or surgical treatment that is supplementary [or complementary] to another.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitements non chirurgicaux
  • Chirurgie
  • Médicaments
DEF

Traitement visant à renforcer l'efficacité d'un traitement ou à le compléter.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tratamiento sin cirugía
  • Cirugía
  • Medicamentos
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Record 2 2016-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Water Treatment (Water Supply)
  • Wastewater Treatment
  • Water Pollution
DEF

... any additional processing of secondary treatment effluents undertaken to further improve their quality. Tertiary treatment may be used to further reduce almost any undesirable constituent of wastes: suspended solids, BOD, nitrogen, phosphorus, toxic substances, or bacteria.

CONT

for "complete treatment": Sewage treatment. ... These processes may be classified as preliminary, primary, secondary, or complete, depending on the degree of treatment accomplished ... Complete treatment removes a high percentage of suspended, colloidal, and organic matter.

OBS

tertiary treatment: Term and definition standardized by ISO.

Key term(s)
  • tertiary wastewater treatment

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement des eaux
  • Traitement des eaux usées
  • Pollution de l'eau
DEF

Traitement d'épuration complémentaire intervenant après l'épuration biologique [...], et destiné à abaisser plus particulièrement la DBO résiduelle, ou la teneur en facteurs d'eutrophisation, ou encore la teneur en micro-polluants

DEF

Application de procédés de traitement supplémentaires pour réduire davantage les effets de la pollution par des eaux usées ayant subi des traitements primaires et secondaires. Ce traitement supplémentaire peut être 1) un traitement physique supplémentaire, ou 2) un traitement chimique, ou 3) un traitement biologique supplémentaire.

OBS

traitement tertiaire : Terme et définition normalisés par l'ISO.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tratamiento del agua
  • Tratamiento de aguas residuales
  • Contaminación del agua
DEF

Tratamiento de depuración adicional para reducir la cantidad de nitrógeno y otros elementos del efluente epurado.

CONT

Las operaciones unitarias más utilizadas en el tratamiento terciario son: la adsorción, el cambio iónico y procesos de separación por membranas tales como la ultrafiltración, la osmosis inversa y la electrodiálisis.

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