DETERMINATION OF FILTER MEDIA EFFECTIVENESS: A CASE STUDY OF MTU WATER TREATMENT PLANT

📄 Project Abstract

The Mountain Top University set up water treatment plant commercially for internal revenue generation. There was a quality challenges in the treated water released for sale at a time. This necessitated improvements on the treatment process which involved replacement of filter media in the filter beds cylinders. The previous was the conventional filter beds each with a particular media but of different grades. The present is a mixture of media in a cylinder to carter for quality challenges of raw water. This project investigates quality control parameters of the water treatment process. Samples were taken weekly before and after backwashing operations from inlet and outlet of each of the cylinders. Physicochemical analysis such as pH, Turbidity, Colour, Conductivity, Total Solids (TS), Total Dissolved Solid (TDS) and Total Suspended Solids TSS) were carried out on the samples. pH meter was used to determine those quality parameters, Turbidity, Conductivity, Iron content and Ca/Mg Hardne...