On 25 October 2010
School of Environmental Engineering visited Jelutong Wastewater Treatment Plant.
It is the largest Sewerage Treatment Plant in Malaysia.
Jelutong Sewage Treatment Plant has the area approximately 14.7 hectares with the supported capacity of 1.2 million population equivalent.
Jelutong Sewage Treatment Plant are using Sequencing Batch Reactor to treat the sewage and using Anaerobic Digester to treat the sludge. It has 12 SBR (Sequencing Batch Reactor) which every SBR are as large as Olympic Swimming Pool.
Jelutong Sewage Treatment Plant able to intake 180,000m3/day of sewage and its maximum sewage is around 270,000m3/day.
Jelutong Sewage Treatment Plant able to cover five to six places which are:
1. Georgetown
2. Tanjung Tokong
3. Tanjung Bungah
4. Jelutong
5. Air Itam
6. Gelugor
Treatment Process
Screening Process which is Primary Treatment Process.
It screens out all the large objects.
Odour Control.
Grit Chamber
Screening Sand, Oil and Grease.
Inlet of sewage
Aeration
Settling Process
Return Sludge
Effluent