scholarly journals Comparison between Design of Water Treatment Plant Manually and by Using Software with Reference to Yavatmal City

Author(s):  
Aditya A. Jadhao

Abstract: Water treatment is the process of removing contaminants from raw water. It includes various physical, chemical, and biological processes to remove the impurities from raw water. The existing Chapdoh Water Treatment Plant is designed for 100 lpcd rate of supply to Yavatmal city. The water demand of Yavatmal city will increase with the development of the city. The development leads to addition of industrial water demand and also there will be increase in living standards of people. Under these situations, the existing Chapdoh WTP will not be efficient. Hence, an attempt is made to design WTP by keeping the growth of Yavatmal city in near future with higher rate of supply. The aim of present research work is to design WTP for Yavatmal city for design period of 30 years manually and using selfdeveloped MS Excel program. After studying and comparing characteristics of raw water with Indian Standard Characteristics, design of various mechanical units of WTP along with chemical treatment processes like coagulation, water softening and disinfection are found to be essential. The results obtained of WTP design manually are compared with MS Excel program design. MS Excel program developed for the complete design of WTP offers the function that, on entering design population, calculations are done automatically and complete WTP is designed. Also, the program minimizes the percentage of error that occurs in manual designing and it gives precise results in lesser time. Keywords: Contaminants, Water Demand, Water Treatment Plant, Manual design, MS Excel program

1981 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Payment

Viruses were isolated from every sample of raw (100 L) and treated (1000 L) water collected at a water treatment plant drawing sewage-contaminated river water. Few plaque-forming isolates were found but cytopathogenic viruses were isolated as frequently in drinking water as in raw water. In drinking water some samples contained more than 1 cytopathogenic unit per litre, but most contained 1–10/100 L. These viruses had not been inactivated or removed by prechlorination, flocculation, filtration, ozonation, and postchlorination. There were no coliforms present and a residual chlorine level had been maintained. Poliovirus type 1 was a frequent isolate but many isolates were nonpoliovirus. The presence of these viruses in drinking water raises questions about the efficacy of some water treatment processes to remove viruses from polluted water.


1992 ◽  
Vol 26 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 1255-1264
Author(s):  
K. L. Martins

During treatment of groundwater, radon is often coincidentally removed by processes typically used to remove volatile organic compounds (VOCs)-for example, processes such as liquid-phase granular activated carbon (LGAC) adsorption and air stripping with vapor-phase carbon (VGAC). The removal of radon from drinking water is a positive benefit for the water user; however, the accumulation of radon on activated carbon may cause radiologic hazards for the water treatment plant operators and the spent carbon may be considered a low-level radioactive waste. To date, most literature on radon removal by water treatment processes was based on bench- or residential-scale systems. This paper addresses the impact of radon on municipal and industrial-scale applications. Available data have been used todevelop graphical methods of estimating the radioactivity exposure rates to facility operators and determine the fate of spent carbon. This paper will allow the reader to determine the potential for impact of radon on the system design and operation as follows.Estimate the percent removal of radon from water by LGAC adsorbers and packed tower air strippers. Also, a method to estimate the percent removal of radon by VGAC used for air stripper off-gas will be provided.Estimate if your local radon levels are such that the safety guidelines, suggested by USEPA (United States Environmental Protection Agency), of 25 mR/yr (0.1 mR/day) for radioactivity exposure may or may not be exceeded.Estimate the disposal requirements of the waste carbon for LGAC systems and VGAC for air stripper “Off-Gas” systems. Options for dealing with high radon levels are presented.


Author(s):  
Maurizio Brown

During its history Milan city has been able to treasure its wastewater collected by Vettabbia irrigation ditch. Since the XII century, also thanks to Cistercensi (monks from Chiaravalle Abbey) great endeavour, the use of effusing the filthy waters from Vettabbia over the rotten lawns of a great and huge agricultural district, situated in the South the City, was going to become the most spread method used to regain the nutrients contained into the wastewaters and, at the same time, a great procedure to optimize the fresh forage production. During the second half of XIX century this technique was refined and made more efficient in order to allow the sustainable and ecofriendly disposal of the drainage waters raised from the new sewerage system of the City. Since 2004 Milan adopted an effective water treatment plant which permits the reuse of the purified waters for what concerns agriculture, becoming, in this field, the most significant model in Europe.


2009 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 709-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim van Schagen ◽  
Luuk Rietveld ◽  
Alex Veersma ◽  
Robert Babuška

Owing to the nature of the treatment processes, monitoring the processes based on individual online measurements is difficult or even impossible. However, the measurements (online and laboratory) can be combined with a priori process knowledge, using mathematical models, to objectively monitor the treatment processes and measurement devices. The pH measurement is a commonly used measurement at different stages in the drinking water treatment plant, although it is a unreliable instrument, requiring significant maintenance. It is shown that, using a grey-box model, it is possible to assess the measurement devices effectively, even if detailed information of the specific processes is unknown.


2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 246-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Abeynayaka ◽  
C. Visvanathan ◽  
S. Khandarith ◽  
T. Hashimoto ◽  
H. Katayama ◽  
...  

This long-term pilot-scale study on the performance of ceramic microfiltration (CMF) was conducted at the Bangkhen water treatment plant (BWTP), with the raw water from Chaophraya River, Thailand. Raw water turbidity and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) were varied in the ranges of 20–210 NTU and 3.0–8.5 mg/L respectively. The hybrid pilot-scale CMF (Pilot-CMF) operational parameters were optimized with the aid of jar-tests and laboratory-scale CMF (Lab-CMF) operations. The systems were operated with various polyaluminum chloride dosages and filtration cycle times. Pilot-CMF provided excellent steady turbidity removal compared to the conventional water treatment process. DOC removal percentages of Pilot-CMF and the conventional process at the BWTP were 49% and 30% respectively. With different coagulant dosages, unique patterns in transmembrane pressure (TMP) variations were observed. The daily TMP increment under low turbidity conditions was 0.08 kPa/day. During rainy periods (turbidity over 100 NTU) the TMP increment reached 0.79 kPa/day. However, once the turbidity of raw water reaches normal conditions (30–60 NTU at the BWTP) the Pilot-CMF system recovers the TMP increment due to efficient backwashing.


2010 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. J. Khan ◽  
J. A. McDonald

Reliance upon advanced water treatment processes to provide safe drinking water from relatively compromised sources is rapidly increasing in Australia and other parts of the world. Advanced treatment processes such as reverse osmosis have the ability to provide very effective treatment for a wide range of chemicals when operated under optimal conditions. However, techniques are required to comprehensively validate the performance of these treatment processes in the field. This paper provides a discussion and demonstration of some effective statistical techniques for the assessment and description of advanced water treatment plant performance. New data is provided, focusing on disinfection byproducts including trihalomethanes and N-nitrosamines from a recent comprehensive quantitative exposure assessment for an advanced water recycling scheme in Australia.


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