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	Diseño de Plantas de Tratamiento de Aguas Residuales	Diseño de Humedales Construidos
Campo	Ingeniería ambiental	Ingeniería ambiental
Familia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Año de origen	1900	1973
Autor original	Civil and sanitary engineers	Seidel and Kickuth
Tipo	integrated design and optimization pipeline	integrated pipeline design
Fuente seminal	Metcalf & Eddy, Inc. (2013). Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Resource Recovery (5th ed.). McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 978-0073401188	Kadlec, R. H., & Wallace, S. D. (2009). Treatment Wetlands (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN: 978-1566706124
Alias	WWTP design, sewage treatment, water reclamation, municipal treatment	CW design, treatment wetlands, natural treatment systems, artificial wetlands
Relacionados	3	5
Resumen	Wastewater treatment design is the comprehensive planning and engineering of municipal and industrial treatment plants to remove contaminants (organic matter, nutrients, pathogens, trace organics) from domestic and industrial wastewater. Modern treatment plants integrate preliminary screening, primary settlement, secondary biological treatment (activated sludge, trickling filters, lagoons), advanced treatment (membrane filtration, oxidation, absorption), sludge processing, and biosolids management. The design balances regulatory compliance, treatment performance, energy consumption, land use, and capital and operational cost.	Constructed wetland design is an environmental engineering approach that harnesses natural biological and chemical processes—microorganism metabolism, plant uptake, soil sorption, sedimentation—to treat wastewater, stormwater, and agricultural runoff. Developed systematically in the 1970s by German researchers Seidel and Kickuth, constructed wetlands operate with minimal energy input and create amenity and biodiversity co-benefits alongside treatment. The design process integrates hydrology, biogeochemistry, and landscape planning to optimize contaminant removal.