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

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

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Abstract Coagulation is a primary and cost effective process st1000nm0008 in water treatment plants.Under optimum conditions, not only it effectively removes turbidity but also results in reduced sludge volume and subsequently minimizes sludge management costs.Highly turbid water from streams, canals, rivers and rain run luvy duvy ice cream 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 turbidity removal was witnessed using alum dose of 0.

25 g/l at ph 6 with a sedimentation time of 30 min.