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Two Stage Filtration System in a Full Scale Boiling Water for Thermal Power Plant
Dr. Manoj Kumar Gaur #1, Om Prakash Mishra #2, Rahul Pachoriya #3 #1,2,3 Department of Mechanical Engineering, MITS, Gwalior.

ABSTRACT

In this paper, the operation of mono and media filter beds was examined in a large-scale boiler water treatment plant, located in Rayru Gwalior (M.P.). The efficiency of filtration process was improved, regarding the removal of undesirable constituents, which mainly include organic matter and suspended solids (turbidity). Two alternative treatment schemes were examined the conventional coagulationflocculation, followed by gravity filtration and the direct filtration. The filtration was taken weakly ,per day and per report in RO plant. All these experiments were 2 conducted at full-scale filter beds, presenting an effective surface area of 45 m and with a
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volume loading rate over 375 m /h, therefore, the respective velocity was around 10 m h . The performance of filter beds was assessed in terms of removal capacity, regarding mainly the turbidity, as well as the head-loss build-up. It was found that the dual media filter bed produced water of the same quality as the single bed, but with the advantage of operating at greater filtration cycles (around 3 times higher), which resulted to a 10% higher water production. Key words: Dual media filter bed, T.D.S, hard water, Turbidity Corresponding Author: Om Prakash Mishra, 1. INTRODUCTION It is very common feeding that if feed water/ make up water , quality is good RO water, treatment chemicals are not required. It is partially true and it is also a fact that compared to poor water quality make up water they are likely to get very good efficiency out of their requirement such as boiler and cooling system .The reality is still they need water treatment program me to get the optimum efficiency with good make up water quality job of water treatment company becomes very easy .Water softener only replaces the Ca with Na and reduces the hardness of water only rest of the parameters remain the same T.D.s chloride level, alkalinity. So here also corrosion and microbiological preventation require chemicals along with scale inhibitors.The production of r o water where as the application of other additional treatment processes such as ozonation and chlorinaorganic matter and the disinfection of produced RO water. Alternative treatment modes such as dual media filtration and direct filtration process examined in the boiler water treatment plant of Rayru (gwalior) and compare with the more conventionally applied process with the single (sand) filtration bed and with the sedimentation
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step, respectively. Initially the operation of filtration process through single and double layer filter beds was examined during the conventional boiler water treatment. through granular media: The aim of these method is the aggregation of suspended solids and aro water treatment plant processes include mainly the stages of coagulation can be removed more easily in the sedimentation basins. Gravity filtration through specifically used granular media, such as sand or active carbon, are commonly used as final polishing processes for the production of drinking water, whereas the application of other additional treatment processes, such as ozonation and chlorination, can further contribute to the removal of organic matter and the disinfection of produced drinking water. Alternative treatment modes, such as dual media filtration and direct filtration process (without intermediate sedimentation), were examined in the drinking water treatment plant of distiltration (Rayru gwalior) and compared with the more conventionally applied processes, i.e. with the single (sand) filtration bed and with the sedimentation step, respectively. Initially, the operation of filtration process through single and double layer filter beds was examined during the conventional drinking water treatment (i.e. coagulationflocculation/sedimentation, followed by bed filtration). Subsequently, the direct filtration process, which does not include the intermediate settling step, was applied as an alternative treatment scheme, instead of the conventional boiling water treatment. The filtration process was conducted using large-scale filter beds with single (sand) and double (sand-anthracite) filtration media, in order to compare the operation of dual filter bed with the single layer one. According to the literature, it was expected that the dual-media filter bed would operate more effectively, because they can function as a progressive sieve, which can trap the larger solids within the coarser (top) anthracite layer, whereas the smaller particles would be trapped deeper within the (bottom) sand layer [3]. This function maximizes considerably the solids holding capacity of dual-bed filters in comparison with the single-filter bed, hence increasing the time of filtration cycle and reducing substantially the necessary time for backwashing.

2. EXPERIMENTAL PART 2.1. Plant description On the basis of available raw water analysis and the product water (treated water quality) required, following process configuration is devised.In the offered RO Plant the configuration & the process is described below RO block configuration 5.3 array (32 elements)The main processes of RO water treatment plant of distillation are represented schematically in the flow diagram of Fig. 1. It can be seen clearly that the overall treatment process includes the following steps: (i) chlorination (ii) Media filtration (iii) De -chlorination (iv) Scale inhibition (v) micro filtration (vi) RO block (vii) De-carbonation(viii) Permeate storage.

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