The purification of sewage and water by microbes : with a description of Lowcock's Patent system of filtration, as carried out by the Sewage and Effluent-Water Filtration Co., Ltd., 35, Waterloo Street, Birmingham.

  • Sewage and Effluent-Water Filtration Company.
Date:
1894
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Credit: The purification of sewage and water by microbes : with a description of Lowcock's Patent system of filtration, as carried out by the Sewage and Effluent-Water Filtration Co., Ltd., 35, Waterloo Street, Birmingham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE SEWAGE AND EFFLUENT-WATER FILTRATION Co.’s System of Sewage and Water Purification. Improvements effected. Description of System. Drinking Water. Removal of Organic Matter. Irrigation. This system is the invention of Mr. Sidney R. Lowcock, A.M.I.C.E., F.R. Met. Soc., &c., Consulting Engineer to the Company, who has for many years been engaged in the Technology of Water Supply and Sewage and Water Purification, and. has recently conducted a long series of experiment's with the process, the results of which are embodied in a paper contributed by him to the Institution of Civil Engineers (Vol. cxv., 1893-4, part i.)., a review of which will be found on pages 12 to 16. The improvements effected by this process over all others consist essentially in assisting natural means of purification by highly efficient yet simple mechanical arrangements. The following description will show the advantages of this system over all others for the treatment of sewage and effluent water. The process is equally adapted for the purification of drinking water. As is well known the ultimate object to be attained in the purification of sewage or water is the resolution of the organic impurities contained in them into harmless constituents. This is usually attained, with more or less success, in' the treatment of water, by subsidence in large reservoirs and subsequent filtration through specially prepared filters, and in the treatment of sewage, by the precipita- tion, chemically or otherwise, of the solids, followed by the application of the remaining liquid to the surface of large areas of land (irrigation) or specially prepared filters. The treatment of sewage by irrigation alone is well known to be anything but a financial success or a desirable means of sewage disposal, and has serious difficulties attending it. In many districts, moreover, it is practically impossible to obtain the necessary area of land suitable for the purpose, since not only is land of the requisite character very difficult to obtain under any conditions, but the expense is great,