What is Water Treatment Plant?
Written by riki morkal
Water as we all know is a very precious natural resource. One can stay about a month without food, but it's hard to survive for a week without water. This invaluable liquid constitutes about 60% of our body mass, 70% of our brain, and 80% of our blood. Although it covers one-third portion of our planet, only 3% is fresh water, and out of that only 1% is readily accessible for human use. One can make out from these facts and figures, how critical resource this water is. In this context, water needs to be conserved and more significantly recycled or treated. It's not feasible to use less than usual quantity of water because it is required for both domestic and commercial or industrial activities. So, the practicable approach is to treat or purify it for reuse, and here comes the role of modern industrial water treatment plants.
Natural resources play extremely vital part in our lives. There are no alte
ate for this naturally occurring items. Water, bio-diversity, minerals and gas are source of energy with numerous usage. But huge dependency on this natural resources leading to their exhaustion. So it required to take precautions before the alarming situations.
Paras Hydrotech is manufacturers and supplier of raw water and waste water treatment plant based on latest technologies and applications also offers sewerage treatment plant, effluent treatment plants and industrial reverse osmosis systems. We offer best water treatment solutions in India.
Science and technology has given birth to many procedures and methodologies which are useful in the conversation of the water. Amongst various, reverse osmosis (RO) is a filtration method which easily removes several types of large molecules and ions from the solutions.
Water treatment plants treat water from various sources like rivers and lakes. Water from these sources has to be purified to remove floating objects like sticks and other solids of larger dimensions, finer particulate matters, color, odor, pollutants, and harmful bacteria and microbes.
The water entering the treatment plant passes through intake screens to remove floating objects and larger insoluble materials. Back-flushing of the screen with air is done periodically to clear the screen and maintain the effectiveness of the screen.
Coagulants are added to the water to facilitate the subsequent sedimentation process. Water containing the rest of the impurities is taken to a sedimentation tank containing sand filters to remove suspended solids. Sand is then recovered and cleaned so that it can be reused. The next process is the bacterial disinfection and degradation of the organic compounds by treatment with ozone gas. Ozone, being unstable, is produced onsite by the use of oxygen in an electric discharge unit. The ozone thus produced is bubbled through water. Residual ozone is then converted to oxygen gas and vented out to the atmosphere.
Water will still contain some turbidity and other organics. An activated carbon filter is used to remove these impurities along with any remaining colored materials and odor-causing chemicals. Final polishing of this water is carried out by sand filters, and this water is taken to storage vessels. A small amount of chlorine can be used to treat this water to prevent bacterial contamination before the supply to the distribution system.
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