Plant

Secondary Treatment

Tertiary Treatment

Advanced Treatment

Jahra

6 Conventional activated-sludge systems operated in extended
aeration mode

Sand filtration+  chlorination

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Riqqa

12 Conventional
Activated-sludge systems operated in extended aeration mode

Sand filtration+ chlorination

 

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Sulaibiya

9 BNR activated-sludge systems

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Disc filtration
+UF+RO+ chlorination

 

Umm-Al-Haiman

 

4 Oxidation ditch systems

Sand filtration
+UV+ chlorination

 

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Table 2: Treatment Systems Used in Kuwait Main Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants (MPW, 2006).