الفهرس 
Advantages of the Suez Canal
Offshore petroleum exploitation, dredging and miningOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
The thesis studied the impact of the direct disposal of Baloza drain on Suez Canal and tried to prevent this pollution. The water quality analysis of both of them has been recorded and analyzed. Six seasonal readings have been recorded in four locations along the Baloza drain. Also, three seasonal readings have been recorded at the drain disposal point in the canal.
According to the previous measurements, the problem was that the salinity of the drain is much lower than that affected the canal environment and stability.
Accordingly, the study proposed five solutions for treatment of the drain water. The first solution is by direct addition of salts to the drain water. It needs 1000 m2 salt storage area and about 6 million L.E. cost. The second solution is mixing of drain water with a huge amount of canal water in a mixing pond to achieve the required TDS of about 40000 ppm. It needs 3500 m2 area for the mixing pond in addition to big pump station and electricity power station for canal water delivery which has capital cost about 17 million L.E. The third solution is using evaporating pond at drain end with no disposing to the canal. It needs 362160 m2 (95 feddans) area with capital cost about 2 million L.E. The forth solution is made by the applying Lemna plants as wetland for removal of some salts and discharge the effluent to the ground aquifer to improve its water quality to be used in irrigation. It needs 9504 m2 (2.26 feddans) area and about 1.2 million L.E. capital cost. The fifth solution is applying algae ponds to remove about 70 % of the TDS at final disposal. It needs 21126 m2 (5.03 feddans) area and 225,000 L.E. capital cost.
After discussing all the previous solutions, comparison between them has been done technically, economically and environmentally to determine the optimum solution for implementation.
Finally, the fifth and the fourth solutions show good applicable processes economically and environmentally. The fifth solution is favorable economically and technically.