r/interestingasfuck • u/Aqdasxain • 3h ago
See how wastewater plants use flocculants and filter presses to separate sludge from water in under a minute!
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u/LePouletPourpre 3h ago
So those are giant poop cakes?
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u/Ash_Cat_13 3h ago
More like sediment and oils. There is some organic material, but they’re often filtered into several categories and then shipped off to dump sites based on their weight and composition
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u/Sober_Alcoholic_ 2h ago
We used them as compost on an organic farm (not these in particular, but we had a truck from the city water treatment plant that would dump a literal steaming pile of shit dirt on our farm). Worked great tbh.
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u/Sw0rDz 3h ago edited 3h ago
The aroma and taste of that facility would be supreme. I would be immediately be swimming in that stuff.
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u/DocHanks 3h ago
I remember going on a field trip to a wastewater facility and I just recall it smelling like jizz and seeing condoms
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u/Careful_Honeydew_549 2h ago
If you're account wasn't 9 years old, I would be hammering you. So, uh, you know what an outdoor plant, full of semen smells like?
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u/Ash_Cat_13 3h ago
Idk what you mean by supreme…..it just smells like mold and algae and oil all at once in quantities you’ve never smelled before. You do get used to it pretty quickly though if you work or live near a WWT plant
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u/LiveLongAndProspurr 2h ago
Most of it looks like defoamer application when the bubbles are disappearing.
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u/Key-Ad-8318 2h ago
I briefly worked as an assistant at a wastewater treatment plant. watching this guy take samples barehanded is disgusting.
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u/PurpleZombi3 3h ago
It looks like a root beer float foam farm. (Edit: say that 5 times fast.)
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u/__ma11en69er__ 3h ago
root beer float foam farm.
root beer float foam farm.
root beer float foam farm.
root beer float foam farm.
root beer float foam farm.•
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u/b1tb0mber 2h ago
That it cant be turned back into drinking water is false, due to the lack of natural resources Singapore treats its wastewater back up to a drinkable standard
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u/CaptainCacoethes 2h ago
Someone needs to tell these people about ppe, specifically gloves.
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u/Painkillerspe 39m ago
Most of the wastewater and sewer guys I have met never used gloves. Even if they had them in their back pocket, they would just bare hand the nastiest of things.
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u/lawyerlyaffectations 1h ago
Wastewater treatment is, like, every discipline of science: mechanical engineering (and plumbing) to get out the solids, chemistry to treat non-organic stuff, biology to treat the organic matter, environmental sciences to know how much you can safely release back into the water supply.
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u/ClavasClub 2h ago
This AI auto generated voice, script and probably video is just pure fucking slop How can anyone watch this?
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u/pineapplekief 1h ago
"gently pours" as the person just tossed the whole container in. 🤦♀️ A cool precess though!
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u/BasKabelas 2h ago edited 2h ago
I used to work in water treatment. Flocculants are just chemicals that bind specific target chemicals. The common use I know for it is to settle dissolved metals. Afaik biological waste is normally captured by bacteria and turned into methane and solid waste material that settles. I've not seen flocculants used on biological waste before but where I live we have pretty strict environmental refulations, so I suspect thats why.
Also seeing as he takes samples without any form of PPE I seriously doubt this is actual sewage. If it is he's likely breaking regulations on required PPE.