Water Quality Analysis & Designing of Water Treatment Plant at Lakkidi Project Report 2018
Water Quality Analysis & Designing of Water Treatment Plant at Lakkidi Project Report 2018
Water Quality Analysis & Designing of Water Treatment Plant at Lakkidi Project Report 2018
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1GENERAL
problems and affects the people in health aspects. Especially in the urban areas, the
pollution of domestic effluent discharges into the nearby surface water bodies created
problems for the public. There are many ways of safe disposal of Water wastewater. But
improper management of wastewater generation in the urban areas fed its own way of
getting into the surface water. Hence, the effluent discharge affects the surface water
bodies. The water quality change in the surface water bodies has also created many health
problems to the public.
1.2 WASTE WATER
1. Design of sewer
2. Bar screen
3. Grit chamber
4. Skimming tank
5. Primary sedimentation tank
6. Aeration tank
7. Secondary sedimentation tank
CHAPTER 2
LITERATURE SURVEY
2.1 Oladipupo.S.et.al (2015) According to him, a laboratory-scale free water surface-
flow constructed wetland was set up at the Department of Civil Engineering; Ladoke
Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Ogbomosho, Nigeria in May 2013 to
demonstrate the performance of sand based constructed wetland, using Water Lettuce.
The experiment was carried out to demonstrate the enhanced removal efficiency for
Water Lettuce with constructed wetland in treating kitchen wastewater, from a nearby
Campus restaurant-Alata milk and honey. The nutrient removal and performance
evaluation of the constructed wetland in treatment of kitchen wastewater against
retention period of ten days was investigated. During the 10-day retention period, the
sand-based constructed wetland set up with Water Lettuce had improved the
wastewater quality significantly as it had reduced 75.66% of Turbidity, BOD5 by
83.43%, NO-3 by over 50%, 90% of SO-4 , 46.2% of Cl-and Conductivity by 46.2%
and Dissolve Oxygen by 58%. The pH increased by 23%, while the initial offensive
odour of the raw water was no more noticeable.
2.2 Mthembu et.al (2013) According to him, constructed wetlands are designed and
engineered low-cost natural technology that has emerged as a useful technology for
wastewater treatment . They are engineered systems that are constructed to mimic
processes found in natural wastewater treatment. They exploit natural processes in
order to remove pollutants from municipal, industrial wastewater or from mine
drainage. Natural processes employed include vegetation, soil and microbial activities
to treat contaminated water. The relationship and interactions between plants and
microbial assembles attributes the importance of the performance of the wetland
systems (Vymazal, 2005). However, more characteristics that define the ability and the
potential of the constructed wetland such as construction and combination of different
systems, flow characteristics, loading rate, effect of different operational parameters
and the use of different plants need to be considered in the success of any constructed
wetland technology
2.3 Kavya S Kallimani et.al (2015) According to her, the constructed wetlands have
2.4 Eric. A. Nelson (2008) According to him, the Savannah River National Laboratory
implemented a constructed wetland treatment system (CWTS) in 2000 to treat
industrial discharge and stormwater from the Laboratory area. Key factor for this
natural system approach was the long-term binding capacity of heavy metals
(especially copper, lead, and zinc) in the organic matter and sediments. Metal removal
has been excellent since water flow through the treatment systems began, and
performance improved with the maturation of vegetation during the first season of
growth of each systems. The objective is to stabilize metals heavy metals as sulfide
compounds in the sediments. The treatment systems were designed to reduce copper
concentration in the effluent and to allow the effluent to pass toxicity tests. Copper
removal has been excellent since water flow through the treatment systems began, and
this improved with the maturation of the vegetation during the first season of growth of
each system.
2.5 Yung-Ping Huang et.al (2007) According to him, the study investigated the
feasibility of improving water-quality by a water-quality purification project, a large-
scale constructed wetland in southern Taiwan. The constructed wetland has filter beds
and three free water surface systems. Water-quality analyses focused on pH,
Wastewater quality improvement using constructed wetland temperature, dissolved
oxygen (DO) and the pollutions of suspended solids (SS), biochemical oxygen demand
(BOD) and ammonia nitrogen (NH3-N).Both SS and BOD analyses demonstrate that
water pollution conditions were improved from heavily polluted to lightly polluted;
mean concentrations of SS and BOD were improved in the range of 8-141 mg L-1 and
3-26 mg L-1, respectively. Both DO and NH3-N analyses demonstrate that water
pollution remained heavily polluted. However, mean NH3-N concentration was
improved from 8.4 to 3.5mg L-1. Additionally, analytical results confirm that a
complex constructed wetland system achieved high and stable mean removal
efficiencies for SS, BOD and NH3-N of 81±25%, 83±15% and 61±28%, respectively.
Moreover, mean removal efficiencies of the free water systems were superior to those
of a filter bed system.
CHAPTER 3
SCOPE & OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT
3. To treat the unclean water mainly used by the local residents for irrigation and
bathing to drinking water standard thus making the water useful for domestic purposes
CHAPTER 4
METHODOLOGY
Sampling is the first stage towards the sewage analysis. The mode of sampling
adopted is having great significance in determining the reliability of test results obtained.
In our case, the quality as well as quantity of the sewage is frequently varying and
therefore we can’t rely on sampling at a single instant. Hence composite sampling has
been adopted.
Here, equal volumes of 350 ml were taken in a plastic beaker from the drains. The
sampling frequency was 2 days of 5 hrs for the drain of residential area and 4 hrs for
other drains. The samples were taken from morning 8.30 to evening 6.30.They were then
mixed together to form the composite sample and make up to 1 liter.
The sewage samples were analysed in order to find out parameters which includes
colour, odour, turbidity, pH, total solids, total hardness, chlorides, residual free chlorine,
sulphide, total solids, dissolved oxygen, acidity, biochemical oxygen demand, chemical
oxygen demand and E-coli test. The test details and results obtained were given below.
Colour
The colour of water is usually due to the presence of organic matter in colloidal
condition, but sometimes it also due to the mineral and dissolved organic and inorganic
impurities. Before testing the colour of the water, first of all total suspended matter
should be removed from the water by centrifugal force. After this the colour of the water
is compared with standard colour or colour discs. The colour produced by one milligram
of platinum in a liter of distilled water has been fixed as the unit of one colour. The
permissible colour for domestic water is 20ppm on platinum cobalt scale. The colour in
water is not harmful but it is objectionable.
Odour
It indicates whether the sewage is fresh or stale. Stale sewage has offensive odour
of hydrogen sulphide and other sulphur compounds. As the foul smell starts coming
immediately after the sewage becomes stale or septic, the odour readily helps in
ascertaining the condition of sewage. Fresh wastewater is practically odourless. But,
however in 3 to 4 hrs; it becomes stale with all oxygen present in waste water being
practically exhausted
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Turbidity
Turbidity is a direct measure of the total solids present in the sewage. Normally
the sewage is turbid resembling dirty dish water or waste water from baths having other
floating matter pieces of paper, plastics, oils and greases, vegetable debris, fruit skins
soaps etc. Removal of these materials produces water that is aesthetically acceptable and
that can be disinfected properly. Turbidity removal becomes necessary if we are adopting
solar disinfection. If the turbidity is very high, chemical coagulation has to be done with a
detention period of 2-6 hrs.
No specification has been made regarding the turbidity limit of public sewers. For
potable water, turbidity should be in the range 5 –10 NTU. Here, the turbidity is
measured using the turbidimeter.
pH
In public sewers the permissible range of pH specified is 5.5 – 9. (As per IS-
10500-1991for potable water, it is 6.5-8.5).
Hardness
Chloride
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The chloride content normally increases along with the metal content. The solvent
power of water dissolves chlorides from topsoil and deeper formations. Agricultural,
industrial and domestic wastes are also sources of chlorides in water. The human excreta
and urine contains large amount of chloride. So, the presence of excess chloride in water
indicates the possibility of contamination of water by sewage. They also interfere in the
determination of COD.
Chlorine
The chlorine remains as residual in the treated water for the sake of safety against
pathogenic bacterias. Residual chlorine is determined by the Starch-Iodide test or
Ortotolodin test. In starch-iodide test, potassium iodide and starch solutions are added to
the sample of water due to which blue colour is formed. On the addition of orthotolodine
solution if yellow colour is formed it indicates the presence of residual chlorine in the
water.
The residual chlorine should remain between 0.5ppm to 0.2ppm in the water so
that it remains safe against pathogenic bacteria.
Sulphide
Total Solids
Sewage normally contains very small amount of solids in relation to the huge
quantity of water (99.99%). It only contains about 0.05 to 0.1percent of total solids.
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Suspended solids are those solids which remain floating in sewage. Dissolved
solids remain dissolved in sewage just as salt in water. Colloidal solids are finely divided
solids remaining either in suspension or in solution. Settleable solids are that portion of
the solids that settles out, if the sewage is allowed to remain undisturbed for suitable time.
Total solids are considered to be the sum of dissolved and suspended solids.
Settleable solids are of importance in the case of design of sedimentation tanks. The
suspended and volatile solids determinations are used to evaluate the effectiveness of
waste water treatment plants.
The specified limits for suspended and dissolved solids in public sewers are
600mg/l and 2100mg/l respectively. Dissolved solids up to 500mg/l generally make it
suitable for domestic use. Water with higher content up to 1000mg/l is also acceptable.
Here, the suspended solids are found out by passing a measured quantity of
sample through a filter paper. The dissolved solids are found out from the turbidimeter.
The values obtained are given below.
Dissolved Oxygen
The D.O. test performed on sewage before treatment helps in indicating the
condition of sewage. Only very fresh sewage contains some dissolved oxygen which is
soon depleted by anaerobic decomposition. Also the dissolved oxygen in fresh sewage
depends on the temperature. If the temperature is more the D.O. content will be less. The
solubility of oxygen in sewage is 95% of that in distilled water.
The dissolved oxygen range for public sewers is not specifically mentioned. As
per IS 2296 -1982, the drinking water source should contain a DO level more than 6 mg/l
if disinfection is only used. The drinking water source should contain DO level more than
4 mg/l if conventional treatment and disinfection is used. Specification for DO level for
outdoor bathing source is 5mg/l.
Acidity
For chemical examination Acidity test was done, Acidity of water is its
quantitative capacity to react with strong base to designated pH. Acidity depends on end
point pH or indicator used. Dissolved CO2 is usually the major acidic component of
unpolluted surface water.
The BOD is a measure of the oxygen required to oxidise the organic matter
present in a sample, through the action of micro-organisms contained in a sample of
wastewater. The BOD may be defined as the oxygen required for the microorganisms to
carry out biological decomposition of dissolved solids or organic matter in the wastewater
under aerobic conditions at standard temperature. If sufficient oxygen is available in
waste water, the useful aerobic bacteria will flourish and cause the aerobic biological
decomposition of waste water, which will continue until oxidation is completed. The
amount of oxygen consumed in this process is the BOD. Polluted water will continue to
absorb oxygen for many months, and it is not practically feasible to determine this
ultimate oxygen demand. The BOD should be less than 350mg/l
In order to perform this test a known quantity of waste water is mixed with a
known quantity of standard solution of potassium dichromate, and the mixture is heated.
The organic matter is oxidized by K2Cr2O7. The resulting solution is titrated, and the
oxygen used in oxidizing the waste water is determined.
E-Coli Test
There are two tests for E-coli, first is presumptive and second confirmative. In the
presumptive test definite amount of diluted sample of the water in standard fermentation
tubes containing lactose broth as culture medium is kept in incubator at 37⁰C for 24 to 48
hours. If some gas is produced in the fermentation tube, it indicates the presence of E-
coli, if not vice-versa.
The sullage treatment can be done in different ways. Treatment processes are often
classified as
Preliminary treatment
Primary treatment
Secondary treatment
Completed final treatment
Preliminary treatment.
It consists solely in separating the floating materials and also the heavy settle able organic
solids. It also helps in removing the oils and grease from the sewage. This reduces the
BOD by about 15-30%. The processes used are screening for the removing floating
papers, rags, clothes etc. grit chambers for removal of grit and sand and skimming tank
for removing oils and grease.
Primary Treatment
The liquid effluent from primary treatment often contains a large amount of suspended
organic material, and has a high BOD. The organic solids, which are separated out in the
sedimentation tanks are often stabilized by anaerobic decomposition in digestion tanks or
are incinerated. The residue is used for landfills or soil conditioners.
Secondary Treatment
It involves further treatment of the effluent, coming from the primary sedimentation tank.
This is accomplished through biological decomposition of organic matter, which can be
carried out either under aerobic or anaerobic conditions. In these biological units bacteria
will decompose the fine organic matter, to produce clearer effluent.
Filters
Aeration tanks
Oxidation ponds and aeration lagoons
The treatment unit in which the organic matter is destroyed and decomposed by anaerobic
bacteria is called anaerobic biological units and may consist of
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Anaerobic lagoons
Septic tanks
Imhoff tanks
The effluent from the secondary treatment unit will usually contain little BOD (5 to 10%
of the original), and may even contain several milligram per liter of DO.
Final Treatment
This consists in removing the organic load left after the secondary treatment, and
particularly to kill the pathogenic bacteria. This treatment is normally carried out by
chlorination. The chlorine dosage is determined based on the sewage strength. Generally
in sewage water, the chlorination is carried out only if the situation necessitates the
disinfection process and it occurs when
The types of units employed in sewage treatment, their functions and efficiencies are
listed in the table below.
CHAPTER 5
CONCLUSION
The details of, scope, objectives, methodology of the project and the need for waste
water treatment using sewage treatment are discussed in this report.
CHAPTER 6
REFERENCES
1.Eric. A. Nelson "sewage Treatement Systems For Water Quality Improvement"
Proceedings of 2010 south carolina water resourcesconference,held oct:13-14
2.Oladipupo.S.et.al (2015) "Wastewater Treatment Using Constructed Wetland With
Water Lettuce (Pistia Stratiotes)" International Journal of Chemical
3.Yung-Ping Huang,Wen-Chien Kuo, Cheng-Haw Lee,1," River Water- Quality
Improvement Using A Large-Scale sewage treatment In Southern Taiwan "J.
Environ. Eng. Manage (2007)