List of Water Treatment methods for Drinking water | Effluent water
Generally in textile effluent Color removal is very difficult Task. similarly in the same plant, the feed water of Reverse Osmosis plant turbidity will not maintain uniformly.
Though several methods are available only few system that are adopting in globally, many factors are involve for selection criteria
1. cost of technology
2. that technology must be given uniform result
3. It must be upgrade-able one.
4. the process / system’s running cost as well as recharge the system (ex. media of softning plant, membrane of RO like.,) that must be reasonable one.
Note the available method.
For Color Removal
Coagulation/rapid sand filtration
Adsorption
• Granular activated carbon (GAC) media
• Powdered activated carbon (PAC) addition
• Synthetic resins (ion exchange)
Oxidation
• Ozone
• Chlorine
• Potassium permanganate
• Chlorine dioxide
Nanofiltration
Taste and color control
Oxidation
• Ozone
• Chlorine
• Chlorine dioxide
• Potassium permanganate
BAC adsorption
Bacteria, viruses removal
Partial reduction–filtration
Inactivation—disinfection
• Chlorine
• Chloramine
• Chlorine dioxide
• Ozone
• UV
Turbidity-particulate reduction
Filtration technique
• Rapid sand—conventional
Coagulation & Flocculation
• Clarification
Plain settling
Plate settlers
Solids contact
Dissolved air flotation
Filtration
• Rapid sand–direct mode
Slow sand filtration
• Diatomaceous earth filtration
• Membrane filtration
Ultrafiltration
Nanofiltration
Reverse osmosis
Disinfection by-product control
Precursor reduction
• Enhanced coagulation
• GAC adsorption
• Biologically activated carbon (BAC) media–
preozonation
• Nanofiltration
Iron, manganese reduction/sequestering
Filtration of precipitators formed by preoxidation
• Sand and/or anthracite media
• Green sand media
• Proprietary media
Polyphosphate sequestering agent
Hardness reduction
Lime softening
• Ion exchange
• Nanofiltration
Inorganic, organic chemical reduction
Ion exchange
Biologically activated carbon media
Adsorption
Reverse osmosis
Corrosion control
Posttreatment
• pH adjustment
• Inhibitors
Before going to adopt any technology into your process, think carefully with available right technician and do tiny pros and cons list of each system personally.