Primary Clarifier Operations
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Training Video
This webinar will focus on primary treatment of municipal wastewater, specifically primary clarifier operation. Discussion of the unit operations performance characteristics will be provided along with potential operating problems. Pictures of actual treatment units will be shown. In addition, troubleshooting will be covered at the end of the presentation.
Date of Recording: August 24, 2023 (1-2:30 pm Eastern)
Presenters
- Larry W. Moore, PH.D., P.E., WEF Fellow
Professor Emeritus of Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering Department, University of Memphis
Dr. Moore received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of South Alabama in 1973 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Mississippi State University in 1974 and 1983, respectively. He worked with the Mississippi Bureau of Pollution Control from 1974 to 1978, writing NPDES permits for industries. From 1983 until 2018, Dr. Moore taught undergrad-uate and graduate environmental engineering courses and conducted applied research at the University of Memphis. He has 45 years of wastewater treatment plant design and troubleshooting experience. During that time, he has assisted approximately 400 industries and cities with various wastewater problems.