With a growing population and increased use of agricultural and industrial water is a valuable asset that must be preserved, especially in places where rainfall is scarce necessary. It is against this background that we seriously consider is the need to treat the water before disposing of unnecessary pollution of water resources and the prevention of money laundering is in situations where it is necessary or cost effective.
There is no shortage of techniques in bothThe treatment and water reuse. In the selection of appropriate techniques, you must keep an open mind and not rule out unconsciously, certain traditional methods or technologies that are now common place that expensive and used in homes.
Water treatment and recycling is very broad in their application and in this brief overview, we will restrict ourselves to the treatment and recycling water for industrial use. There is also an area where regulations are not as stringent asfor drinking purposes.
Classification range of technologies for water treatment and recycling (1-3)
1 Physical Therapy
or media filters, sand and activated carbon, filter press, ventilation, drying, etc.
2 Chemical treatment
or pH control and precipitation, flocculation, oxidation, ozonation, etc.
3 Biological treatment
The use of bacteria or aerobic and anaerobic bioreactors, membrane impregnated with bacteria
4 MembraneFiltration
or microfiltration, ultrafiltration, nanofiltration and reverse osmosis
5 electrolytic process, and
or electrolytic recovery, electrolysis, etc.
6 The combination of the above processes
or pre-treatment of media filters, flocculation followed by membrane filtration, etc.
To choose this sense, the most appropriate technique or combination of techniques, we must first look into the following:
SelectionCriteria (2)
1 Properties of water to treat and recycle
2 Our goals and objectives (specific)
3 Quantum of Investment
4 Return on Investment
5 In the course of the year
It 'very important to understand the properties of water to be treated and recycled. If the water we need to be recycled, we must also consider the final quality we need. They are realistic specifications that together? They are not unnecessarilytight? We think that the tighter the specification, the most sophisticated technique is required to perform and therefore the system is significantly more expensive than necessary. On the other hand, we must make sure that you do not specify below, provided that the quality of recycled water affect our final product.
At the end of any business must be profitable for a success. We must be realistic about how much money we put in water andRecycling system. The most expensive may not be the best, the least expensive may not be the worst. It 'important to choose the right dress technical nature of our water waste they generate, and the final quality of recycled water we want.
Take, for example, the recycling of laundry wastewater. Laundry wastewater contains nothing, solid waste, small amounts of oils and fats, soil, and in the case of hospitals because there were no leftovers, and maybesmall amounts of feces. It would of course remaining detergent. The details of the final recycled water may vary from user to user. Some need to be addressed, but in the final water as drinking water, while others want to keep cleaning as much as possible. Rendering would require reverse osmosis drinking recycled water in the last phase, and this could easily double the price of the entire treatment system. It is the pragmatic or necessary? We mustconsider that to be taken seriously.
If we choose as most people - as a detergent recycling as much as possible, then there are many companies with very different techniques, with very different costs. Which system is more suited to our needs there. So we have to evaluate in detail, that each of the techniques used and the implications of it in this last quality of recycled water.
In general, a physical removal of suspended solids and nothing is needed. This includes a simpleLint screen or a basket to remove large particles. Following this, there are many different techniques such as electrocoagulation, simple media filters, chemical flocculation, filtration and ceramic membrane (4) used. While the final results may be the same, the costs vary widely.