Wastewater Treatment and Energy: What's Your Carbon Footprint?

摘要

Thirty-seven years ago, when Cleveland's Cayuhoga River caught fire, the race was on to clean up the nation's waters. Engineers assured the country they could clean things up, provided there was enough money for construction. Almost no one was paying any attention to the relationship between kilowatts of electricity and biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) or nitrogen removal.