Wastewater Treatment: World's Largest "Advanced" Plant

The world’s largest advanced wastewater treatment plant, Blue Plains, is located in Washington D.C. Subscribe for more    / thedailyconversation   DC Water's world-leading Blue Plains https://www.dcwater.com/about-dc-wate... Process Engineer Miguel Miranda explains the science behind cleaning the sewage of millions of people to a crystal clear standard--effluent that is released into the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay beyond, the biggest estuary in the United States. Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment process brochure https://www.dcwater.com/sites/default... 0:00 Welcome to Blue Plains 0:49 Headworks screens 2:02 Odor control 2:15 Efficient pumps 2:36 What "Advanced" means 2:59 Primary clarifiers 3:36 Miguel's role as a Senior Process Engineer 4:01 Inside the control room 6:15 First biological process: heterotrophic bacteria 7:54 Reusing the bacteria 8:19 Nitrification/denitrification reactors 8:45 Giving the bacteria time to work 9:15 Fish tank 9:45 Effluent water sample 10:14 Rejuvenating the Potomac River 10:40 Bloom, Class A biosolids 11:12 A process that "enhances nature" on a much larger scale 11:28 Miguel's dream