Pollution | The Water Treatments

CORROSION

Corrosion is the rusting of metal in pipes or tanks due to the corrosive action of either water or soil. Scales are deposits caused by the deposition of calcium carbonate on the inner surface of pipes or...

Corrosion Control Methods

Chemical Treatment Treatment of corrosive water can be either chemical or physical. Chemicals used in the treatment are either meant to stabilize the water, to form a protective film on the pipe surface, or...

Water Pollution

WATER POLLUTION Water pollution may be defined as the addition of any substance (pollutant) to water resource which may change the physical and chemical characteristics in any way which may interfere with its...

Primary Treatment

SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM OF PRIMARY TREATMENT The first stages of waste water ( sewage ) treatment are commonly physical and aimed to remove larger suspended solids from waste water, primarily using gravity to allow...

Clariflocculator

In large water treatment plants, the flocculator and the clarifier are combined together to achieve economy in construction. The combined unit of flocculator and clarifier is known as...

Environment Chemistry

What is Environment ? Environment is defined as” the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences such as water, land, air, space and sun ”. To use the word environment alone is...

Types Of Sedimentation Basin

The common types of sedimentation basins are rectangular basins, square or circular basins and Solid contact clarifiers. Rectangular Basins Rectangular basin showing Inlet& outlet Rectangular basins are...

TYPES OF DISINFECTANT

Types of chemical disinfectants containing chlorine are hypochlorite, chloramines, and chlorine-dioxide. Hypochlorites Instead of using chlorine gas, some plants apply chlorine to water as a hypochlorite,...

Ion Exchange Softening

The other method commonly used for water softening is ion exchange softening, also known as zeolite softening. shows below the ion exchange softener. Ion exchange softening exchanges calcium and magnesium...

Water Softening Conditioning Process

Softening is the removal of hardness from water. This is not a required part of the domestic water treatment process since hard water does not have any health consequences. At a hardness of greater than 300...

Operation and Maintenance for Water Supply Systems

1.TERMINOLOGY Operation of water supply system is timely and daily operation of the components of a water supply system such as headworks, treatment plant, machinery and equipment, transmission mains, service...