What is Total Phosphorus? | WWD Weekly Digest

Total phosphorus is a measure commonly used in the water and wastewater industry to explain how much phosphorus is present in the liquids of a treatment plant. Increasingly, states and the federal government are imposing limits on how much phosphorus can be in the effluent at wastewater plants.

Reid Staton is a product development manager for Veolia and Luke Wood is a biological process manager for Veolia. Together they explain what total phosphorus is, how it is measure, what is considered a high value of phosphorus in water and technologies available to treat it.

• Website: www.veoliawatertech.com
• Email: [email protected]

Timestamps

• Intro | 0:00
• What is total phosphorus? | 0:28
• How can you measure total phosphorus? | 2:22
• What is a high level for phosphorus? | 3:55
• What technologies exist to remove phosphorus from wastewater? | 7:25
• Chemical treatment technologies for phosphorus in wastewater | 10:26
• What is a good level of phosphorus in water? | 13:57
• Outro: 16:28

Additional Resources

• Read about Veolia’s clarifier technologies: https://www.veoliawatertech.com/en/expertise/municipal-market/municipal-clarification
• Learn about Veolia’s filtration technologies: https://www.veoliawatertech.com/en/expertise/municipal-market/municipal-filtration
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