Performance of alum and assorted coagulants in turbidity removal of muddy water

Performance of alum and assorted coagulants in turbidity removal of muddy water

Blog Article

Abstract Coagulation is a primary and cost effective process in water treatment plants.Under optimum conditions, not only it effectively removes turbidity locinox verticlose 2 but also results in reduced sludge volume and subsequently minimizes sludge management costs.Highly turbid water from streams, canals, rivers and rain run offs was run through jar test for turbidity removal.The brown water with 250NTU turbidity when coagulated with alum and assorted coagulants proved that maximum sun lite 250w 250v socket turbidity removal was witnessed using alum dose of 0.25 g/l at ph 6 with a sedimentation time of 30 min.