(Water Quality) A way to express the strength of industrial waste in terms of the comparable amount of Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) in the household wastewater produced by one person. An industrial waste that has a PE of 1,000 is equivalent to the BOD of waste produced by 1,000 people.
POPULATION EQUIVALENT (PE)
Meaning of POPULATION EQUIVALENT (PE) in English
Environmental engineering English vocabulary. Английский словарь экологического инжиниринга. 2012