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The current monopoly service provider of courtroom interpreting has failed to repeat the success of meeting its key performance target, according to latest figures from the Ministry of Justice.
Four years after the controversial outsourcing of courtroom interpreting to a single contractor, Capita Translation and Interpretingfinally met its 98% target in the last quarter of 2015.
However, statistics published by the ministry yesterday show that it completed 97% of requests for language services between January and March this year.
Capita TI's contract expires on 30 October and will be replaced with new arrangements.
International language services company Thebigword, formed in Leeds, has won contracts to provide face-to-face interpretation, and written translation and transcription services.
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Contractors working regularly for one client were not protected against discrimination
It has always been clear that truly independent providers of services to the world at large fall outside the scope of the Equality Act 2010. But the extent to which this is true of self-employed, independent contractors working extensively on assignments for only one client has been less than clear. But it now seems that even where self-employed independent contractors devote all, or a substantial amount, of their time to an assignment, they may not be able to rely on the Act's protection against discrimination, following a recent Court of Appeal decision in a case called Secretary of State for Justice v Windle and Arada.
The case involved two court interpreters who were on the court and tribunal service's National Register of Public Service Interpreters. They assisted those involved in court proceedings who did not have English as their first language and were engaged to do work personally on a large number of short term contracts. Under these arrangements, there was no guarantee of work, and no obligation on them to accept work when it was offered. The interpreters considered themselves self-employed.
In 2010 the interpreters, who were of Czech and Algerian origin, brought proceedings against the Ministry of Justice, arguing that they had been treated less favourably than British sign language interpreters in relation to their terms and conditions and that this was discrimination on the grounds of race.
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Big numbers again from the United Kingdom, where the famed National Health Service on July 8, 2016, launched a request for proposal (RFP) for interpretation and translation services worth GBP 20–80m over the two-year life of the contract.
The new RFP comes hot on the heels of similar tenders for framework agreements from the nation's Crown Commercial Service CCS (worth up to GBP 250m), the Ministry of Justice (up to GBP 160m), and a procurement organization for the country's Eastern Shires (up to GBP 120m).
Even if only a fraction of the promised spend is likely be funnelled through the frameworks, the UK is emerging as a runner-up to the EU in terms of centralized procurement of translation and interpretation.
The RFP totals 74 pages across three documents, with another three vast spreadsheets added for good measure. Bid managers rejoice. Running the tender is the NHS' procurement arm NHS Shared Business Services (SBS), which is funded by both the suppliers and the participating authorities. According to the bid documents seen by Slator, the Category Manager in charge is a certain Jack Steele.
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My Lords, I rise with some trepidation as the only non-lawyer to speak in this debate. I am most grateful to my noble and learned friend Lord Woolf for providing the opportunity for me to draw attention to one particular specialist aspect of the resources available to our courts. I refer to the right to interpreting services and the way in which these services are provided. I declare an interest as a vice-president of the Chartered Institute of Linguists and put on record my sincere thanks to my fellow vice-president, Professor Tim Connell, for his invaluable help with background research on this topic. I am also grateful to the National Register of Public Service Interpreters for its briefing.
The right to interpretation is currently enshrined in EU law under Article 2 of the directive of the European Parliament dated 20 October 2010. This is several clauses long, so I shall quote just the first and last to summarise the key points. Article 2 reads:
"Member states shall ensure that suspected or accused persons who do not speak or understand the language of the criminal proceedings concerned are provided, without delay, with interpretation during criminal proceedings before investigative and judicial authorities, including during police questioning, all court hearings and any necessary interim hearings".
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Q: My grandson established a translation service, specialising in Portuguese and Spanish, three years ago and recently gained an accolade for his work. Some of his early customers offer him business which is not sufficiently profitable but, because they helped him to establish the business, he is reluctant to either refuse their custom or ask for increased and profitable rates of pay.
Other more profitable translation work, more demanding of his skills, still commands rates of pay below that which he feels he should have. Yet he is reluctant to increase his charges to these clients for fear of losing the business.
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Sure looks that way. Maybe $ 1.40 after I'd hate to be in the longs shoes now. CEO should resign so this sell off stops. JMO
Bragg getting paid 1mm a year in free stock to run the company into the ground. Vote Against on all measures.
Shorts will cover between 1.40-1.50 but if Titanium has to start over we will see 1.00 again. And Bragg pays himself 107% to bonus, what a fraud!
NO ! Giving Braggs till end of 2013 ! Don't think you know anything about running a company. Your comments are worthless !
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Worse part about this s book value doesnt support us here, after the refi and loss in Q1 your looking at about 1.60. I hope everyone now knows what my concerns have been and ultimatley why the decisions made by bragg have led us back to the same pace we were in 2009. Building ships to where the cost outweights your long term potential is not smart business
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TravelPod Member ReviewsSheraton Krabi Beach Resort Nong Thale
We stayed at this hotel for eight days! I couldn't be happier. We were very well received and our room was incredible. The food was excellent as well as the staff. Definitely a place to come back to in the future.
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Best holiday ever!!
I went Sept 22nd 2004 had wonderful time. Staff and managment some of the best I've witnessed. Rooms were very spacious with lots of closet space. Sorry about UK report I found complete opposite! I've travelled to many places but not the Uk, Looking forward to seeing their spacious rooms one day!!!
We loved our stay here. The hotel is beautiful, the people are friendly and caring and there is room to move around the resort without being crowded. The pool is beautiful and the beach even better. The tour desk was very helpful booking our outings. Breakfasts were delicious and our one dinner at the hotel was terrific. I recommend this hotel to anyone.
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Although a bit hard to find, since this part of Thailand is not overly developed and resorts are not well sign posted, this resort exceeds all your expectations. It's positioned in the middle of a mangrove area without making any compromise to it. I can say a lot about the food, the staff, the facilities, but that does not add anything those are all as can be expected perfect. The biggest virtue that Krabi offers is the possibility of a freshly brewed cup of coffee at your room at 06:30 am, stroll through the mangrove using the concrete steps and enjoy the combination of a deserted beach, rocky isles, small barks, shells and sea gipsies. Truely beautifull and unseen anywhere else. Paradise for at least an hour.
I defy anyone who gives this hotel a bad review!! I've just returned from a 7 night stay in this fabulous hotel. The location is excellent, completely unspoilt. The staff are very friendly and helpful. Although I was initially disappointed by the view from the room - trees with no view of the beach, once I read the blurb in the room which explains that the hotel is built to conserve the mangrove, I quickly forgave this. The rooms are plenty big enough and are bright and modern. The only criticism I had of the room was that the mattress was a little on the firm side!
The restaurants were lovely although food and drink in the hotel was pricey by Thai standards. However, there are a few great restaurants outside of the resort which are both cheap and serve fantastic Thai and seafood. If you are looking to get away from it all I'd definitely recommend this hotel... and make sure you don't miss the waffles at breakfast!!!
Totally agree with the previous post
The previous poster really hit the nail on the head with their review. Much more laid back than Phuket, we really enjoyed our time there. Great place if you like crabs, we saw about 10 different varieties on the beach and the hotel grounds. Also great for collecting pieces of coral and small shells
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Stayed 2 nights at the Sheraton. We really loved the hotel. When traveling in Thailand, hotel quality is so hit-or-miss, and it's nice to stay in a comfortable hotel when so far away from home.
Pros: New hotel (read: clean!), nicely built within natural surroundings so it does not overpower the beauty of the Thai coast (3 story buildings max), nicely furnished. Very nice breakfast buffet at Mangosteen restaurant near the lobby. Our rate included breakfast; some do not. I don't know what it costs if not included, but the variety of food offerred was great, as was the quality of the food.
Cons: bed is very hard, resort is not near much else. Ate one meal at Gecko Restaurant - flavorless and pricy.
Recommendations: Eat at The Terrace Thai Restaurant right across the street from the hotel entrance. Good quality food, much less expensive than the Sheraton. Very nice wait staff. We ate several meals here in our 2 day stay and everything we ordered was outstanding. Take an elephant ride tour at Nosey Parker's. We were so impressed with their friendliness that I want to recommend them to everyone. We arranged this ourselves (not thru the hotel's activity desk) and they picked us up from the hotel. It's a 15 minute ride to their park. The owner and staff were so friendly and the elephants were so funny. They have great personalities. We paid THB1500 which is about US$40 for 2 of us to ride the elephants for an hour. They used our camera to take pictures of us on the elephants, and it is going to make a great Christmas card this year!
Little bit of heaven (for a few days!)
The rating of this place really depends on what you're looking for.....we stayed here for 5 days rest and relaxation after 3 weeks travelling around Bangkok, Chang Mai and Phuket and couldn't have picked a better spot. Not the place to go if you're after nightlife and it is a good 30mins to Krabi itself, but if you're looking for somewhere to relax this is a great place. Nice pool, beach and room and we found the staff to be very attentive - especially Tipmas in the Martini Bar. Restaurant prices a bit expensive - but there is an excellent local Thai restaurant across the road serving fantastic food for next to nothing. For a few days this was great but for a longer stay I suspect you may get a bit bored as there is not much going on in the immediate vacinity!
Sheraton - Not as good as the usual standards
We always book Sheraton hotels and came to Krabi as there was brand new Sheraton, we were very disappointed, the staff seemed very uninterested, the resort was massive, we would have had to get a cart to take us to the pool, our view from our room was trees, trees and more trees. The room was very clean and tidy and very nice from the inside but was like barracks from the outside.
We had booked for 2 weeks, we stayed one night and moved to a fantastic hotel further along the road. The staff didn't even ask why we were moving. Not good value for money as the rooms were quite expensive.
Stayed with 3 friends in 2 Zen connecting rooms for 5 nights.
Spacious, contemporary design room with comfortable mattress and firm pillow.
Great fun aerobic thai boxing classes.
Lovely baby elephant RARA entertaining the guests daily at 9am.
Excellent food. Reasonable price for 4-5 star hotel.
Perfect pool beach view. Although the pool is too shallow and the water was heated before noon.
Landscaping was so so.
Convenient shuttles to town center and nearby beach.
Cramped and unwelcoming
A very disappointing stay. Rooms were cramped, little storge space. Restaurants on the resort were vastly overpriced and management were unhelpful.
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A day with the elephants.
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In many ponds, lakes, and other bodies of water, the nutrient balance is such that phosphorus is the nutrient that limits the growth of algae. An increase in the amount of phosphorus in the water can cause an excess of algae. This can deplete the oxygen and the other nutrients in the water, to the detriment of fish and other life forms. It is therefore important to prevent excess phosphorus from entering the body of water.
Often, excess phosphorus comes from sewage. Sometimes, the excess phosphorus is in the effluent from small-scale domestic septic tank systems, and in some cases the factor that limits how many dwellings can be located in an area near a lake is the fact that any further dwellings will cause an unacceptable increase in the amount of phosphorus entering the lake.
The traditional way of limiting phosphorus has been to limit the number of dwellings. Conventional sewage treatment, especially of the kind carried out in a traditional domestic septic tank, has not been aimed at removing, and does not remove, the phosphorus to any substantive degree.
The invention is aimed at treating sewage water, to attenuate the phosphorus content thereof. Another aim is to provide a phosphorus treatment system which operates on the water as the water is passing through the septic-tank or other sewage treatment system, whereby the costs attributable solely to the phosphorus treatment system are minimised. Another aim is to provide a treatment system which requires nothing, or very little, by way of on-going attention and maintenance, over long periods of use.
The invention lies in placing a body of RID material in the water to be treated, and keeping the water, and the RID material, under anaerobic conditions. Preferably, the anaerobic conditions are so strict that the Eh voltage of the water becomes very, low, or negative.
For the purposes of this specification, RID material means Reductive Iron Dissolution material. That is to say, RID material is material that contains ferric iron, and the ferric iron therein is capable of undergoing a change in oxidation state, i.e is capable of being reduced, to ferrous iron, under conditions of anaerobicity, i.e conditions of low or negative Eh voltage.
As to pH, generally sewage water tends to of neutral, or near-neutral, pH, under which conditions the newly-created ferrous ions are much more soluble than the ferric ions, and readily pass into solution in the water.
The phosphorus-attenuation systems as described herein make use of the fact that iron in the ferric oxidation state Fe3+ is very insoluble at neutral pH values, but in its ferrous oxidation state Fe2+ is much more soluble. The invention recognises that in anaerobic (low Eh) waters, ferric iron is unstable and can be solubilized by reduction to Fe2+. The dissolved Fe content in anaerobic waters can thus rise to tens of milligrams Fe per liter of water (and considerably more than that in some cases).
The presence of large amounts of dissolved iron in the water leads to phosphate precipitation by two mechanisms. First, in the anaerobic environments, when phosphate is present, increased iron levels lead to the formation of ferrous-phosphate minerals, such as vivianite Fe3(PO4)2.8H2O which is insoluble enough to precipitate. Second, when the effluent is subsequently oxidised, any still-remaining dissolved ferrous ions tend to start to oxidise back to ferric ions, but because of the still-dissolved phosphate, the ferric ions now tend to form ferric-phosphate compounds, such as strengite FePO4.2H2O which again is insoluble enough to precipitate.
Thus, the dissolved ferrous iron provides two mechanisms for drawing the phosphate ions out of solution, and causing them to precipitate
In fact, a third mechanism can be present also. Oxidation of the ferrous ions back to ferric will result in precipitation of some ferric hydroxide or oxyhyroxide, besides the strengite and other ferric-phosphate minerals. Ferric oxyhydroxide serves as an excellent medium for adsorbing phosphate ions out of solution.
When all three mechanisms are present, the phosphate is removed (a) by precipitation in the anaerobic area as vivianite, (b) by precipitation in the aerobic area as strengite, and (c) by adsorption. All three mechanisms, however, require first that insoluble ferric iron be converted to soluble ferrous iron, which requires a low Eb; and it is recognised that raw sewage, held under anaerobic conditions, provides an excellent medium for promoting the reductive dissolution of ferric iron.
The RID material should be rich in ferric iron. Ferric hydroxide Fe(OH)3 or oxy-hydroxide FeOOH compounds are suitable. (Ferric oxide, e.g hematite Fe2O3 would be unsuitable, because its mineral structure makes hematite less susceptible to reductive dissolution.
The RID material that is to be placed in the anaerobic conditions, i.e the material that contains the ferric iron, need only, contain a little iron, as an overall percentage. The minimum effective iron content, for the purposes of the invention, may be regarded as being about 1 milli-gram of iron per gram of aggregate material (i.e 0.1%/wt). The iron content referred to here is the content of ferric iron that can be reduced to ferrous iron (which is sometimes called the "acid-extractable" iron). The preferred ferric iron content in the RID material is in the region of 0.3%/wt to 5%/wt.
As to its physical or mechanical character, the RID material should be physically capable of releasing its ferrous ions into the water. The RID material should be porous, and permeable to the passage of a flow of water through the material. The RID material may include a matrix of sand, which is chemically inert, which supplies the grain size for maintaining permeability. The RID material preferably may be supplied as sand-sized grains, the grains being coated with powder-sized particles of the ferric substances.
Ferric hydroxides and oxyhydroxides are available quite readily in many places, in the soil-B horizon; that is to say, in the mineral-enhanced area underneath the top-soil. Suitable ferric hydroxide compounds have the characteristic red-orange-brown colour associated with a high ferric content.
If the ferric content of the locally-available material is inadequate, extra ferric can be provided in the form of e.g Fe(OH)3 (ferri-hydrite) or FeOOH (geothite). These minerals are readily available in powder form (they are used for making pigmentations), and can be used with bulk filler such as local sand.
Providing RID material with a ferric content of more than about 5%/wt would not be suitable, because the ferric hydroxide and oxyhydroxide materials minerals are generally of a fine-grained nature, and the greater percentage would, or might, diminish permeability too much.
The degree to which the phosphorus contamination in the water is attenuated depends on the amount of iron that is solubilized. In a typical real case, the residence time needed for an effective amount of ferrous ions to enter the water may be regarded as being in the order of a day or two; that is to say, about the same residence time as the water in a well-engineered small system spends in the anaerobic septic tank.
Typically, a system that handles a through-flow of 1000 liters/day of sewage has a septic tank volume of about 3500 liters. In a case where the presence of phosphorus is troublesome enough to warrant being addressed by the system as described herein, the concentration of phosphorus in the water might be, for example, 10 mg-P per liter of the water. Such a system would need to be supplied with fresh ferrous iron entering solution at the rate of about 5 grams Fe per day. Given that the body of RID material contains, for example, about 2%/wt of ferric iron, a mass of RID material of about 1800 kilograms (which would be about 1 cubic meter of material) can be expected to go on releasing ferrous iron into solution at that sort of rate for many months, and possible for many years.
It is recognised that providing such an amount of RID material can be done economically, and that amount of material can be readily accommodated in a sewage treatment system without resorting to great expense, over and above what is needed in any event for the main task of the conventional system, i.e the remediation of the ammonium and organic constituents in the water.
It is recognised that it is economical to keep this quantity of ferric iron on hand, and available for the slow release of ferrous ions, at the required rate such that the amount of Fe taken into each charge of water that goes through the system can be expected to contain in the range of 1-20 mg-Fe per liter of water.
Once the ferrous ions have entered the water, the water should still be kept under strict anaerobic conditions. The reaction of the ferrous ions with the phosphate ions takes, again, about a day or so, in order for a majority of the phosphate to precipitate out as vivianite and the other ferrous-phosphate precipitants.
It may be noted that building up the required concentration of ferrous ions in the water does not take place immediately, but takes several hours, during which time the water must remain in contact with the RID material, and anaerobic. Also, the time taken for the required degree of precipitation of vivianite to take place, likewise is several hours (during which time, again, the conditions must remain strictly anaerobic). It is recognised that because the two processes are sequentially separated in time, they can be physically separated. This is advantageous, because it means the designer can arrange for the precipitation of the vivianite to take place after the water has left the RID material. Therefore, the designer can arrange that the main bulk of the precipitated vivianite accumulates outside the RID material. Thus the RID material can remain unclogged over long periods. (This aspect may be contrasted with systems in which the phosphate is removed out of solution by adsorption; of course in that case the adsorbed solid phosphate cannot avoid clogging the permeability of the treatment material.)
Because the dissolution reaction consumes iron from the RID material, replenishment of the material will be required periodically. The designer should preferably design for easy replenishment of the RID material, and it is sensible also to provide for removal of the vivianite at the same time. Of course, the prudent designer will seek to make the intervals of replenishment of the RID material coincide with the normal periodic maintenance of the septic tank.
Although the treatment configurations discussed here pertain to sewage treatment in septic systems, the system can also be used in conjunction with conventional wastewater treatment plants and with other wastewaters containing phosphorus.
Iron has been used for phosphate treatment in conventional sewage treatment processes. The iron is added as iron salts, e.g ferrous chloride, or ferric chloride, which are much more soluble than the ferric oxyhydroxide compounds present in the RID material. These salts are effective in causing the precipitation of phosphate; but because they dissolve quickly, the salts must be added continually to the wastewater stream, manually or by mechanical means, so that continual maintenance is required. Systems that require such constant attention can be viable in municipal sewage systems, but are contra-indicated for domestic systems, where any departure from the minimum amount of attention needed by the traditional septic tank system would not find favour.
Because RID material solubilizes iron more slowly and only under anaerobic conditions, a large mass of RID material can be provided, and this large mass can be left to release ferrous ions into the water slowly, and over long periods of time, without attention or maintenance. These characteristics are attractive for smaller treatment systems.
Porous media material with ferric oxyhydroxide compounds have been suggested previously for treatment of phosphate from sewage, but by a distinctly different process, i.e absorption. Patent publications U.S. Pat. No. 4,184,947 (Demisch, Jan. 22, 1980) and CA-2,190,033 (Blowes, May 11, 1997) show examples of sorption processes. At normal pH ranges, ferric oxide minerals have surfaces that are positively charged, and are thus capable of adsorbing anions such as phosphate. Such sorption reactions do not involve an increase in dissolved iron concentrations. The RID treatment process is distinct in that it requires that the RID material be placed in the water under such anaerobic conditions, and for such residence time, that ferric iron reduces to ferrous iron, whereby the concentration of iron dissolved in the water substantially increases. The increase in iron in the water is caused not by the dissolution of soluble iron salts, as was done in sewage works, but by providing anaerobic (i.e low Eh) conditions in which ferric iron solids can undergo a change in oxidation state, from Fe3+ to Fe2+.
In conventional sewage treatment, phosphorus levels have been controlled by addition of soluble metal salts (ferrous chloride, ferric chloride, alum, lime) which promote the precipitation of insoluble (that is to say, sparingly soluble) metal-phosphate mineral phases. Treatment requires continual addition of reagents however, so that the maintenance requirements generally make such treatment methods impractical for use with smaller domestic sewage treatment systems such as septic systems.
Previously suggested phosphate treatment methods for use with small septic systems have focussed on adsorption, using porous media material with enhanced capacity to absorb phosphate. At normal pH ranges, many metal hydroxide minerals such as ferrihydrite Fe(OH)3 have a positive surface charge and thus have a strong capacity to absorb anions such as phosphate PO4 3−.
By way of further explanation of die invention, exemplary embodiments of the invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of a water treatment system for carrying out treatment that embodies the invention;
FIG. 2 is a corresponding view of another system;
FIG. 3 is a corresponding view of another system;
FIG. 4 is a corresponding view of another system;
FIG. 5 is a corresponding view of another system;
FIG. 6 is a corresponding view of another system;
FIG. 7 is a corresponding view of another system;
FIG. 8 is a graph showing attenuation of phosphate from the water;
FIG. 9 is a graph showing presence of iron in the water.
The systems shown in the accompanying drawings and described below are examples which embody the invention. It should be noted that the scope of the invention is defined by the accompanying claims, and not necessarily by specific features of exemplary embodiments.
FIG. 1 shows raw sewage (from e.g a domestic house) being fed to a primary tank 20. The primary tank may be regarded as equivalent to a conventional septic tank. As in a septic tank, the water in the primary tank is maintained under anaerobic conditions. In the primary tank, the usual digestion of organic materials in the sewage takes place, and inert solids in the water settle to the floor of the tank. Also, if organic phosphate is present in the sewage, much of that is transformed, as usual, into inorganic phosphate in the primary tank. (It is the inorganic phosphate which is attenuated by the remediation treatments as described herein.)
Sludge 23 collects on the floor of the primary tank 20. The partially treated water from the primary tank leaves via pipe 25. The water now enters a secondary treatment chamber 27. The water in the secondary treatment chamber also is maintained under strict anaerobic conditions. In this secondary treatment chamber is provided a body 29 of RID material, which rests on a support screen 30. The body 29 of RID material is permeable, and the water passes through the body. The water emerges from the secondary treatment chamber 27 via pipe 32. From there, the water passes to a tile-bed or soakaway 34. Here, the water is exposed to the air, and the usual oxidation reactions commence.
In the anaerobic conditions inside the secondary treatment chamber 27, low redox-voltage (i.e low Eh-voltage) conditions prevail. The ferric RID material 29 becomes unstable, and the ferrous (reduced) form becomes the stable state. Ferrous ions have a much greater solubility, and the ferrous ions pass into solution.
The dissolved ferrous ions react with the dissolved phosphate ions in the water, under the maintained-anaerobic conditions, to form ferrous-phosphate mineral substances, such as vivianite Fe3(PO4)2.8H2O which is insoluble, and which precipitates. The solid vivianite collects as a sludge 36 in the anaerobic secondary treatment chamber 27.
Generally, upon leaving the chamber 27, there will still be some ferrous ions in solution in the water, and there will still be some phosphate ions in solution in the water, when the water is passed through pipe 32 to the aerobic treatment zone 34 stage. Now, the Eh-voltage goes up, and the ferrous ions tend to oxidise, i.e to revert to the ferric state. The ferric state being much less soluble, as mentioned, precipitation occurs. The substance that precipitates, however, need not be the ferric hydroxide and oxyhydroxide (from whence the iron came) but rather, the presence of the phosphate ions leads to the formation of combined ferric-phosphate minerals, such as strengite FePO4.2H2O Strengite also is insoluble, and precipitates. Thus, more of the phosphate is taken out of the water as the ferric ions come out of solution.
Some ferric oxyhydroxide, and other ferric substances, do precipitate, however, in the aerobic treatment zone 34. And in fact, these precipitates can act to remove even more phosphate; this is because the newly-formed ferric oxyhydroxide is an excellent adsorbing medium, and is effective to sorb even more of the phosphate out of the water.
Tests have shown that the following level of performance is possible, and expected, in a well-engineered system. Of the total inorganic phosphorus burden (i.e the phosphate-P burden) in the water entering the anaerobic secondary treatment chamber 27, 70-80% of the phosphate-P can be expected to be removed in the secondary treatment chamber, by precipitation as vivianite and the other ferrous-phosphate minerals. And a total of around 90-98% of the phosphate-P burden can be expected to have been removed from the water leaving the aerobic treatment zone, following the further precipitation of strengite and the other ferric-phosphate minerals, and as a result of sorption of the phosphate onto the newvly-precipitated ferric oxyhydroxide.
As far as the physical characteristics of the system shown in FIG. 1 are concerned, the primary tank 20 and secondary chamber 27 can be formed by providing a single tank structure 38, and placing a baffle 40 to separate the tank 20 from the chamber 27. The sludge 23 that collects on the floor of the primary tank is normal septic-tank sludge, which has to be removed every two or three years, in a well-designed system. At the same time as that traditional septic-system maintenance work is being done, the RID material 29 can be replaced, and the vivianite sludge 36 can be removed. That is to say, the replenishment of the RID material, and the removal of the phosphorus-laden precipitates, can be timed more or less to coincide with normal maintenance of the septic system.
The amount of accumulation of strengite and other ferric minerals in the aerobic treatment zone is likely to be so small as to be not worth removing, during the life of the system. (It may be noted that it would be very difficult to extract any precipitated material from a soakaway.)
The RID treatment system, engineered in this way, is simple and inexpensive, and the maintenance work required is ver, much in line with the services already provided by pump-out contractors and septage hauliers, both as to the nature of the work and as to timing.
FIG. 2 shows a slightly more elaborate set-up. Here, water from the anaerobic primary tank 40 is drawn upwards through the first portion 43 a of the anaerobic secondary treatment chamber 43, in which is located the permeable body 45 of RID material. The water then passes into the second portion 43 b of the treatment chamber, which is maintained anaerobic also. The water entering the second portion 43 b contains a maximum of dissolved ferrous ions, having just passed through the body 45, and there is ample opportunity for the reaction of the ferrous ions with the phosphate ions to take place, and to be maximised, in the second portion 43 b of the treatment chamber. The vivianite sediment collects on the bottom of the second portion 43 b, and it can be removed from there just as can the sludge from the bottom of the primary tank 40.
Of course, the main purpose of a septic system is to process the ammonium in the sewage, and that function should not be compromised by the phosphate remediation. The designer of the phosphate remediation should note that it would be disadvantageous if the permeable body of RID material had to cope with such solids as may be present in the sewage, and so the designer should take care to place the body of RID material in a place where the water entering the body is substantially clear of solids. But that is not too difficult to engineer, as shown, and it may be noted that the iron-phosphate reactions can then proceed simultaneously, i.e in the same chambers, with the ammonium and other anaerobic sewage-processing reactions, so that the total volume of the anaerobic components of the system are hardly any greater than in a conventional septic system. Similarly, the capacity of the aerobic components need hardly be increased. It is the common practice to over-specify a septic system (mainly because of the large expense if the capacity had to be increased later), and the extra capacity needed by the phosphate system can normally be accommodated within that margin.
FIG. 3 shows an RID phosphorus-treatment system that is installed as a separate unit between a traditional septic tank 50 and a traditional tile-bed soakaway 52, both of which are left untouched. The anaerobic treatment chamber 54 (of concrete, plastic, or metal) contains a body 56 of RID material. The water from the septic tank 50 enters the chamber 54, still under anaerobic conditions. The vivianite precipitates into the body 56, and the designer should see to it that the body will remain permeable and unclogged for a suitable number of months.
FIG. 4 shows another version of a separate phosphorus-treatment unit that fits between a traditional septic tank and tile-bed soakaway. Here, the unit 60 houses the anaerobic treatment chamber 63, containing the body of RID material, as well as an aerobic cell 65. Oxidation of the ferrous ions to ferric, and the precipitation of ferric-phosphates such as strengite, are processes that take place, or get started, in the aerobic cell 65. It is an advantage if the tile bed soakaway (which comes later) is not subjected to the strengite precipitation, i.e if at least some of the strengite (and the ferric hydroxides) can be removed before the water reaches the tile bed.
The main function of the aerobic tile bed is to convert the (dissolved) ammonium into (dissolved) nitrate, and if some conversion of ammonium to nitrate takes place in the aerobic cell 65, so much the better. But it is advantageous for the main function of the tile bed soakaway if the soakawvay is not troubled by the solids that have precipitated in the cell 65.
In the case of a pre-existing septic tank system, in which it is desired to achieve some phosphorus attenuation, with a minimum of expenses, the system shown in FIG. 5 might be considered.
In FIG. 5, the RID material is in the form of briquettes 70, which are suspended in the pre-existing septic tank 72. Now, the water does not flow through the RID material, in the sense as previously described, but rather the ferrous ions, upon entering solution, diffuse from the briquettes out into the water in the septic tank. This arrangement can therefore be expected to be inferior to the systems where the water flows actually through the permeable body of RID material. Also, sewage solids are present in the septic tank 72, which can affect the RID material.
FIG. 6 shows another version. In the previous designs, it was convenient to maintain continuity between the anaerobic water in the phosphorus treatment zone with the anaerobic water in the septic tank, but such continuity is not essential. In fact, the water can be allowed to become aerated after passing from the septic tank, and the water can still be rendered suitable for phosphorus treatment using the processes described herein, by making the water once more anaerobic. In FIG. 6, the anaerobic treatment chamber is located underneath the aerobic tile bed.
In many cases, it will be convenient to provide the anaerobic treatment chamber below the water table, because that is where it is easier to maintain anaerobic conditions. FIG. 6 shows, however, that an anaerobic chamber 80 can be provided above the water table 83. A liner 85 of plastic or other impervious material defines the bottom of the chamber. The body 86 of RID material is placed on top of the liner, and the infiltration pipes 87 and gravel body 89 of the soakaway are placed on top of that, i.e above the RID material.
The RID material must remain anaerobic, and this can be achieved by ensuring the RID material cannot dry out. The grain size of the RID material can be selected such that the material remains tension-saturated for long periods of time, and the liner 85 creates a basin in which the water under treatment is retained. In FIG. 6, the precipitated vivianite collects in the RID material, which is not preferred, but this system might be applicable in some cases.
FIG. 7 shows another treatment system. As mentioned, preferably the water entering the RID media should not previously have been aerated, because aeration increases the residence time needed to bring the water down to near-zero or negative Eh-voltage. Preferably, therefore, the system is so arranged that the water being presented to the RID media is already in a thoroughly anaerobic condition. However, the attenuation of phosphorus using the RID treatment system can still be employed, even if the water to be treated has been previously aerated. But then, the required anaerobic conditions of the RID media must be engineered.
Pre-aeration of the water can be present as a result of, for example, mechanical aeration, or the use of unsaturated sand filters, peat systems, biofilters, or the like. To effect the RID process, the designer should provide a secondary anaerobic chamber 90, in which reducing-Eh conditions are re-established, in line following an aerobic treatment station 92. This can be done by adding a carbon source 94 or other electron donor source in the secondary chamber 90. Suitable electron-donor sources can include sawdust, compost, pyrite, or the like. The environment in the secondary chamber 90 should be such as to establish thoroughly anaerobic conditions in the chamber, i.e such that the Eh-voltage of the water can go negative, or almost so.
Thus, an organic carbon material such as sawdust or compost is useful for establishing conditions in which the Eh voltage will fall. The provision of organic carbon also has another benefit.
One result of aerobic pre-treatment is that ammonium in the water can already be oxidised (at least partially) to nitrate. It is known that passing nitrate-laden water through organic carbon material under anaerobic conditions can lead to denitrification of the dissolved nitrate. It is recognised that the carbon material 94 can be mixed with the RID media material, in the one anaerobic chamber. Now, the system has the advantage of potentially enabling the simultaneous treatment of the nitrate (by denitrification), and of the phosphate.
FIG. 8 is a graph showing the on-going remediation of phosphorus in laboratory tests. Phosphate-P is present in the incoming sewage at a burden varying between 5 and 20 milligrams-P per liter of water. Precipitation in the anaerobic chamber reduces the P by a first, large, proportion, and then the subsequent aerobic precipitation brings the P down to 2 mg/L or less. FIG. 9 is a graph showing the amount of ferrous iron that is put into solution by the RID process. As shown, the ferrous content can be expected to be in the 1 or 2 mg/L range.
It is recognised that passing sewage water over RID material, under anaerobic conditions, can be expected to put ferrous ions into solution in domestic sewage water at the rate of 1 or 2 milligrams per liter, or more, and to continue doing so, without replenishment, and indeed without additional input or attention of any kind, over periods that can be measured in months or even years.
At that rate, dissolved phosphorus (in phosphate form) can be attenuated from a problematic 10 mg/L down to the much lower 2 mg/L, or less, as the sewage water passes through the kind of treatment phases it has to undergo in any event.
Replenishing the supply of RID material every two years or so is much more acceptable than tipping in a bag of soluble treatment salts every few days. The precipitated vivianite etc minerals might eventually clog up the treatment system, if left, but the system can be arranged so these minerals are collected in a place where they can be easily removed, and they can be carried away periodically—at the same time as the sludge from the septic tank, for example. Thus, as far as the user is concerned, although the RID phosphorus-attenuation system is not quite in the fit-it-and-forget-it category, the needs of a properly-engineered RID system are no more demanding than the needs of the properly-engineered conventional septic system into which it is incorporated.
When trouble occurs in conventional septic systems, it is usually because the sy stem has been overloaded, perhaps with solids, or with ammonium, and of course, if an RID system has indeed been inadequately engineered, there will be similar problems with the RID system.
It is recognised, in the invention, that, given the amount of RID material that can conveniently and economically be provided for treating sewage water, and given the levels of phosphorus likely to be encountered in sewage water, the RID system can in fact provide an effective degree of attenuation of the phosphorus over long periods. If replenishmnent were needed every few days, the system would be of little practical use. If huge quantities of the RID material were needed for the treatment to be effective, or if the RID material was expensive to provide in the quantities needed, that would be no use either. The recognition is that the RID system can provide effective treatment performance, at an acceptably economical cost, both as to initial installation, and as to on-going maintenance.
As mentioned, a mineral is suitable to be considered as an RID material, in the invention, insofar as ferric material in the mineral reduces, under conditions of low Eh voltage (i.e less than +200 mV) and neutral pH, to a ferrous salt, and the ferrous salt is soluble under those Eh and pH conditions. It should also be noted that, when considering whether a mineral would be suitable, the rate at which the redox conversion takes place is important. In respect of some minerals, the redox conversion from ferric to ferrous., under the kind of Eh and pH conditions obtaining generally in septic tank effluent, would be very slow, the time scale of the changes being measured perhaps in thousands of years. For example, minerals such as hematite have such a very slow reduction rate, as to be of little use for generating soluble ferrous salts. Ferrous iron arising from minerals such as magnetite is not soluble under the reducing conditions, so they are not of much use either.
Preferably, the RID material is material in respect of which, under the reducing conditions, the ferrous iron enters solution at a rate of no less than 0.1 mg of Fe per day, per kg of the mineral. That is to say, if the production of ferrous material from the redox conversion is so slow that ferrous material enters solution at a rate of less than 0.1 mg /day per kg, the effect is so slight as to be not worthwhile. With some minerals, rates at which ferrous ions are produced, and enter solution, can be as high as 10 mg of Fe per day per kg, but it is noted that adequate remediation of phosphorus can be achieved with minerals that produce ferrous ions at lower rates than that. Indeed, too fast a rate would be less advantageous—the rate should be slow enough that the mineral will still be supplying ferrous ions after a period that is measured, preferably, in years, or at least in months. Redox reactions are slow enough, generally, that minerals that might be considered as RID material would be unlikely to produce too rapid a reductive conversion of ferric material.
In the systems as described herein, it does not matter if the ferrous ions are quick to dissolve; indeed it would not matter if the ferrous ions were to enter solution as soon as they were produced. The advantageous long-term performance of the mineral arises because the ferrous material is produced at a slow steady rate, not because the ferrous material in necessarily slow to dissolve.
It is recognised that a commercially worthwhile rate of production of soluble ferrous ions can be achieved by the use of certain ferric minerals, under the reducing conditions encountered in septic tank effluent. For the remediation of phosphorus to be long-term, and effective, the production of soluble ferrous ions should not be so fast that the material is quickly used up (but of course, the rate of production should be substantial enough that the quantity of soluble material produced is worthwhile).
It is recognised that a suitable rate of production of soluble ferrous ions can be engineered in the manner as described herein. It is recognised that in trying to treat phosphorus simply by providing soluble ferrous salts, the designer will always face the great difficulty of slowing down the rate at which the ferrous material enters solution, such that there would still be some ferrous ions entering solution after a period of months or years. It is recognised that the highly-suitable rate that arises in the systems as described arises basically automatically, without the need for attention on the part of the owner of the system.
The Eh or redox voltage of the water in which the reactions take place should be less than about +200 mV. This figure does not represent a sudden cut-off point, above which no result is obtainable. The +200 mV limit identifies a commercially worthwhile rate; +300 mV would be the level above which reduction of ferric to ferrous generally would hardly be detectable. The more reducing the conditions, the greater the rate of production of ferrous ions. Reducing conditions of less than about −200 mV are unlikely to be encountered (or achieved) in septic tank effluent, and in any event such a low voltage might lead to too rapid a rate of reduction, whereby the mineral would be used up too quickly,.
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Assign ticket to Jon for feedback.
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Right now you can't use the "Change status to feedback" (which lets you
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Americans Against Escalation in Iraq is a coalition of advocacy groups (including MoveOn.org, Center for American Progress Action Fund, Americans United for Change, Win Without War, and others) in the United States opposed to the Iraq War.[1] In June 2007, they launched a multimillion-dollar campaign entitled "Iraq Summer" [2] aimed at turning public opinion against the war and bringing political pressure against those in the U.S. Congress that support it. This program involves 100 staff members in 15 states and is focused on 60 members of Congress.
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