SARVAJANIK COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, SURAT

FACULTY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

MASTER OF ENGINEERING (TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING)
Affiliated with
GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

Graduate Report Presentation on

“Water Treatment Process”

ME – TCP, Year – I, Semester – I
Under the subject of
ITP
(Subject Code : 3714802)
 Introduction
Why it isneeded?

 To kill all pathogenic germs, which are harmful to human health

 To remove the unpleasant and objectionable taste and odours

from the water

 To remove dissolved gases ,colour of water

 To make water fit for domestic, industrial, and commercial uses.

 To remove micro organism and colloidal matters

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Raw water collection

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 Initial Stages
Screening - the removal of any floating objects like leaves,
branches, fishes , weeds, etc. from the water.

Bar Screening
 Mechanical Screening

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Aeration –
Dissolving oxygen into the water to remove smell
and taste, promote helpful bacteria to grow, and precipitate
nuisance metals like iron and manganese.

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Spray aerators

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Sedimentation:
Removal of Suspended matters having higher
specific gravity than water and also fine suspended matter.

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 Major Clean Up
• Coagulation and flocculation - causes the agglomeration
and sedimentation of suspended solid particles through
the addition of a coagulating agent (usually aluminum
sulfate and/or iron sulfate) to the raw water along with a
polymer to help form a floc.

• Filtration- Remove Micro-organism and colloidal matter

• Disinfection---Pre-chlorination and dechlorination - mostly

to kill algae that would otherwise grow and clog the water
filters. Also kills much of the remaining unprotected
bacteria.

• Softening- To remove hardness

 Theory of coagulation
Coagulation is the destabilization of colloids by addition of
chemicals that neutralize the negative charges

 The chemicals are known as coagulants

 Coagulation is essentially a chemical process

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 Mixing device

1 Mixing basins with baffle walls

2 Mixing basin with mechanical devices (Rapid mixing)

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• Rapid or Flash mixing is the process by which a
coagulant is rapidly and uniformly dispersed through the
mass of water. This process usually occurs in a small basin
immediately preceding or at the head of the coagulation
basin. Generally, the detention period is 30 to 60 seconds and
the head loss is 20 to 60 cms of water. Here colloids are
destabilized and the nucleus for the floc is formed.

 Slow mixing brings the contacts between the finely

divided destabilised matter formed during rapid mixing.

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Coagulation aim

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 What is Flocculation?

Flocculation is the agglomeration of destabilized particles

into a large size particles known as flocs which can be
effectively removed by sedimentation or flotation.
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Hydraulic Flocculation
• Horizontally baffled tank
The water flows horizontally.
The baffle walls help to create
turbulence and thus facilitate L
mixing
W
• Vertically baffled tank
Plan view (horizontal flow)
The water flows vertically.
The baffle walls help to
create turbulence and thus H
facilitate mixing

L
Isometric View (vertical flow)
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Hydraulic flocculators

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Hydraulic flocculators:
simple technology

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 Clarifier
• After Flocculation Water enters the settling tank which is
commonly called Clarifier.

Clariflocculator

In modern practice, flocculator and clarifier are

provided in one unit called Clariflocculator in which
chamber is provided in the center and clarifier
compartment is formed by the periferical space.

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 Filtration
The process of passing the water through the bed of such
granular materials is known as filtration.

Types of filter

1- The slow sand gravity filter

2- Rapid sand filter

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Slow sand filters are used in water purification for treating
raw water to produce a potable product. They are typically 1
to 2 metres deep, can be rectangular or cylindrical in cross
section and are used primarily to treat surface water.

Periodically clean by removing, cleaning and replacing the

upper few inches of biologically active sand.

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 Rapid sand filters

Rapid sand filtration is a purely physical

drinking water purification method. Rapid sand filters (RSF)
provide rapid and efficient removal of relatively large
suspended particles. Two types of RSF are typically used:

Rapid gravity
Rapid pressure sand filters

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•The biggest disadvantages of slow sand filter is that it
requires large area due to slow filtration rate.

•This Requirement make it uneconomical for places where

land is very costly in urban area. In order to reduce
requirement of space and to increase the rate of filtration , a
lot of research conducted which finally led to the developed
of rapid sand filter.

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Rapid sand filters have filter rates 40 times those of slow
sand filters. The major parts of a rapid sand filter are:

• Filter tank or filter box

• Filter sand or mixed-media

• Gravel support bed

• Under drain system

• Wash water troughs

• Filter bed agitators

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PRESSURE FILTERS
Pressure filters are used extensively in
iron and manganese removal plants. A pressure sand filter is
contained under pressure in a steel tank, which may be
vertical or horizontal, depending on the space available. As
with gravity filters, the media is usually sand or a
combination of media, and filtration rates are similar to
gravity filters. Groundwater is first aerated to oxidize the iron
or manganese, and then pumped through the filter to remove
the suspended material.
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