Environmental Protection

Project Proposal

Localization and technology development of low cost de-centralized sewage waste water treatment in Egypt

Abstract

Egyptian’s sewage water pollution control efforts are currently focusing on
cities and urban areas, the main approach for sewage wastewater treatment is by
centralized facilities, which usually have a centralized wastewater treatment capacity
ranging from 50 thousand till two million cubic meters per day. This practice does
have positive effect on protection of city water environment and prevention of water
pollutants. However, centralized wastewater treatment facilities are very expensive
because of large demand on pipeline construction, and pumping facilities. It will face
serious financial barrier if promoted to all urban areas of Egypt. When comes to
wastewater treatment in small towns and villages, which almost have been ignored so
far in the overall national water pollution control planning of Egypt, it is believed that
the current approach is not feasible considering the current economic level of these
areas.
In this project, Decentralized Sewage wastewater treatments (DSWT) based on
the Japanese “Johkasouu System” is proposed as a possible solution to solve this
problem considering its advantages including low construction cost and flexible

technology options. The International Organization of Science and Technology (I-
ACT) offers in collaboration with their research team in the fields of physics, civil

engineering, veterinary medicine, and agriculture project entitle: “Localization and
Technology Development of Low- Cost Decentralized System to deal with sewage
wastewater in Egypt and other developing countries. In addition, the environmental
impact resulting from the use of sewage to public health, will be studied in order to
put technological system is crucial to the problem of sewage in Egypt, and to discuss
all possible aspects about wastewater quality control process.
The project aims to design and produce low-cost technology platform to
address the decentralized wastewater system in Egypt and other countries. The
technological proposed system is more compact than the traditional systems that rely
on the design of anaerobic filters. This proposed system represents 70% of the size of
the normal type, and can be install in small spaces.
The project consists of five phases namely:
1. Performing Basic Research
2. Proofing of concept/ Invention, (What is called invention function)
3. The stage technology development (STD) which leads to business validation,
4. Product development
5. Production of the prototype modeling
6. Performance and Analyses.
The research team will implement these phases of the project for the purpose of
settling this technology homeland, as well as collaboration with industrial enterprises
(NGO and private sector coraporation).