Function of a Sewage Treatment Plant in Rodgau, Germany

Abstract

Rodgau has nearly 50.000 citizens and have their own sewage treatment plant. The wastewater of the whole town has to be treated to the point where it can be released in the back which gives the town its name, the Rodgau. There are two main sources of wastewater, municipal and industrial waste water. (www.rodgau.de 8.9.17)

The objective of Sewage Treatment in Rodgau especially is that the waste water after being
process can go directly to Rodau river. The drinking water of Rodgau is not coming from the
sewage treatment plant. (Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz)

The sewage Treatment Plant in Rodgau has the capacity up to 75.000 citizen value (EW). In this sewage treatment there are physical, chemical and biological processes. In the chemical processes there are neutralization, oxidation and reduction processes. The physical treatment including sedimentation, extraction, and adsorption process. Then main steps of the sewage treatment are screening and filtration of the bigger pollutants, transforming of elements and separating the sludge.( ATV-Handbuch (1999))

Different options can be seen which were used in the Rodgau plant. The Rodgau sewage
treatment plant is at state of the art, very efficient and can be a great example for sewage
treatment plants of other cities.