JSPM’s Imperial College Of Engineering And

Research,Wagholi.
Environmental Engineering I

TE-C SITE VISIT

Semester-VIth
A. Y. 2018-19
Subject Incharge- Prof. PRATIKSHA BHADANGE.

NAME- Saurabh. S .Katariya

ROLL NO. – 21

DIV. – C

CLASS- TE (CIVIL)
 Acknowledgment

We thank JSPM’s ICOER management and our Principle

Dr. D. D. Shah for granting permission for the WTP visit
and our HOD Dr. POTE SIR. Special thanks to our
Subject-in charge Prof. PRATIKSHA BHADANGE and
Prof. PRASHANT LONDHE for arranging the field visit
and all the teaching and non teaching staff assisted .
Specail thanks the staff for making proper arrangement of
our travelling and meal.
Day- 27/02/2019
PLACE:PCMC Water Treatment PlantSector Number 23,
Transport Nagar, Nigdi,Pimpri-Chinchwad,Maharashtra 411044
 DISCRPTION OF PLANT
The plant is owned and operated
by the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal
Corporation (PCMC). This plant serves
water to the area under the PCMC. On an
average the plant purifies 420 MLD
(million litres per day) and pumps it to the
area under its jurisdiction. Being an
institute under direct control from the
government all the decisions of the
operation and maintenance are operated
by the PCMC.

The plant and the staff on board is has conducted a number of community awareness
programs ever since the foundation of the plant.

PURPOSE OF VISIT
Our main purpose for this visit is to be familiar with industrial environmental and to get
practical knowledge of water treatment plant component. Also in 6th semester subject
Environmental Engineering-I requires knowledge about how polluted water is being
treated, so it is very much convenient to see all the practical and component in real time
work environment.
INTRODUCTION :
The department of Civil Engineering of JSPM’s Imperial College Of Engineering And
Research,Wagholi organized a one day educational visit to PCMC Water Treatment
PlantSector Number 23, Transport Nagar, Nigdi,Pimpri-Chinchwad,Maharashtra
411044 on 27th February 2019 for TE-C Civil Engineering Student. The visit was
mandatory to fulfil the curriculum requirement of Savitribai Phule Pune University
(SPPU) for TE-C civil student under the Environmental Engineering-I subject. The visit
was organized with the prior permission of Principal Dr. D. D. Shah through Dr. Pote
(HOD CIVIL) internally.

WATER TREATMENT
Water treatment is any process that improves the quality of water to make it more
acceptable for a specific end-use. The end use may be drinking, industrial water supply,
irrigation, river flow maintenance, water recreation or many other uses, including being
safely returned to the environment. Water treatment removes contaminants and
undesirable components, or reduces their concentration so that the water becomes fit
for its desired end-use. This treatment is crucial to human health and allows humans to
benefit from both drinking and irrigation use

UNITS OF WATER TREATMENT

Preliminary Treatment

The first stage of in treating drinking water is often called pretreatment and involves
screen to removes large debris and object from the water supply. Aeration can also be
used in the pretreatment phase. But in the plant requires the aeration to remove different
gases dissolve in water. Preliminary treatment to screen out, grind up, or separate debris
is the first step in wastewater treatment. Stick, rags, large food particles, sand , gravels
etc. Are removed at this stage to protect the pumping and other equipment in the
treatment plant.

Primary and Secondary Clarifier

The second stage in drinking water involves the drinking water treatment process
involves coagulation and flocculation. In water treatment, coagulation flocculation
involves the addition of polymers that clump the small, destabilized particles together
into larger aggregates so that they can be more easily separated from the water.
Coagulation is a chemical process that involves neutralization of charge whereas
flocculation is a physical process and does not involve neutralization of charge. The
coagulation-flocculation process can be used as a preliminary or intermediary step
between other water or wastewater treatment processes like filtration and
sedimentation. Iron and aluminium salts are the most widely used coagulants but salts
of other metals such as titanium and zirconium have been found to be highly effective
as well.

FILTERTION

Water flows through a filter designed to remove particles in the water. The filters are
made of layers of sand and gravel, and in some cases, crushed anthracite, membrane.
Filtration collects the suspended impurities in water and enhances the effectiveness of
disinfection.The filtration apparatus is a concrete box which contains sand (which does
the filtering), gravel (which keeps the sand from getting out) and an underdrain (where
the filtered water exits). After the filter is operated for a while, the sand becomes
clogged with particles and must be backwashed. Flow through the filter is reversed and
the sand and particles are suspended. The particles are lighter than the sand, so they rise
up and are flushed from the system. When backwashing is complete, the sand settles
down onto the gravel, flow is reversed and the process begins again.
Chlorine Contact Tank

Chlorine disinfection process requires 15 to 30 minutes contact time to provide

adequate period as to destroy any pathogen in the water. Reuse applications typically
require additional time. Dechlorination requires only 30 seconds of mixing and contact
time to quench residual chlorine. Traditional chlorine contact tank (CCT) is designed
to minimize as well as shorten circuiting by using high length to width ratios or
serpentine flow paths. These design practices however, do not always produce ideal
plug flow conditions and the contact tank configuration does not alone control chlorine
mixing, distribution and contact time. Distribution chambers and feed channels should
also be taken into consideration when trying to comprehend the total performance of a
chlorination system.

BACKWASHING

In terms of water treatment, including water purification and sewage treatment,

backwashing refers to pumping water backwards through the filters media, sometimes
including intermittent use of compressed air during the process. Backwashing is a form
of preventive maintenance so that the filter media can be reused. In water treatment
plants, backwashing can be an automated process that is run by local programmable
logic controllers (PLCs). The backwash cycle is triggered after a set time interval, when
the filter effluent turbidity is greater than a treatment guideline or when the differential
pressure (head loss) across the filter exceeds a set value.

Water treatment filters that can be backwashed include rapid sand filters, pressure filters
and granular activated carbon (GAC) filters. Diatomaceous earth filters are backwashed
according to the proprietary arrangement of pumps, valves and filters associated with
the filtration system. Slow sand filters and self-cleaning screen filters employ
mechanisms other than backwashing to remove trapped particles. To keep water
treatment filters functional, they have to be cleaned periodically to remove particulates.
Ineffective backwashing is one of the main reasons that water treatment filters fail

CONCLUSION

After visiting different units of the WTP, there was question and answer session. In this
visit of WTP we understand the concept of water treatment and clear the concept of
different units of WTP.

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