Water and Effluent Treatment

Improvement in the quality of water, both that suppHed by utilities and that recycled in loop systems (e.g., cooling towers) is an important goal. In addition. 

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The principal calcium salt used as a flocculant is calcium hydroxide [1305-62-0] or lime. It has been used in water treatment for centuries (see Calcium compounds). Newer products are more effective, and its use in water and effluent treatment is declining (10). It is still used as a pH modifier and to precipitate metals as insoluble hydroxides. Lime is also sometimes used in combination with polymeric flocculants. 

This term includes, power, steam, compressed air, cooling and process water, and effluent treatment unless costed separately. The quantities required can be obtained from the energy balances and the flow-sheets. The prices should be taken from Company records, if available. They will depend on the primary energy sources and the plant location. The figures given in Table 6.5 can be used to make preliminary estimates. The current cost of utilities supplied by the utility companies electricity, gas and water, can be obtained from their local area offices. 

Figure 26.1 A typical water and effluent treatment system.

This review article summarizes the broad area of electroorganic synthesis, (selected electroorganic synthetic reactions, with a special emphasis on those that have been commercialized or investigated in pilot plants) and selected applications of electrochemical techniques for waste-water and effluent treatment. There are a number of modern textbooks and updated reviews [4-53] of electroorganic chemistry that include much more detail on organic reactions and their mechanisms than it is appropriate to discuss here. 

For a detailed discussion the reader is referred to a number of recent monographs [9,10,23] and review articles [50,226-231]. The role of electrochemistry in waste water and effluent treatment is still queried, as remarked by Pletcher and Walsh [10]. One answer would be, relatively small since there are many competitive methods which are cheaper on a large scale and use less energy. Principle types of processes used in local-authority sewage works are listed in Table 14. 

Mechanical and biological methods are very effective on a large scale, and physical and chemical methods are used to overcome particular difficulties such as final sterilization, odor removal, removal of inorganic and organic chemicals and breaking oil or fat emulsions. Normally, no electrochemical processes are used [10]. On the other hand, there are particular water and effluent treatment problems where electrochemical solutions are advantageous. Indeed, electrochemistry can be a very attractive idea. It is uniquely clean because (1) electrolysis (reduction/oxidation) takes place via an inert electrode and (2) it uses a mass-free reagent so no additional chemicals are added, which would create secondary streams, which would as it is often the case with conventional procedures, need further treatment, cf. Scheme 10. 

Water and Effluent Treatment in Nuclear and other chemical plants. Corrosion resistant linings for water treatment vessels and pipelines, pumps, valves, flowmeters, agitators, chemical dosing tanks, effluent tanks etc. Soft natural rubber or ebonite, EPDM, butyl, neoprene or hypalon. 

Electrochemistry can be used for a number of purposes linked to water and effluent treatment. The most obvious of these involve the removal of ionic components from waters by application of an appropriate potential. This is employed to remove metal ions from process streams and often leads to recovery of the metal, which can be reused. Clearly, cell designs which favour high electrode surface area/catholyte volume ratios are to be recommended. 

Many of the offsite items are designed as packaged plants or systems that are purchased from specialized suppliers. In some cases, the supplier may even offer an over-the fence contract, in which the supplier builds, owns, and operates the offsite plant and contracts to supply the site with the desired utility stream or service. Over-the-fence contracts are widely used for industrial gases such as nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen, and most plants also import electricity from the local utility company. Over-the-fence contracts for steam, cooling water, and effluent treatment are less common, but are sometimes used in smaller plants or where several companies share a site. 

State (h) represents the case whereby the particles are not completely covered by the polymer chains. In this situation, the simultaneous adsorption of one polymer chain onto more than one particle occurs, leading to bridging flocculation. If the polymer adsorption is weak (low adsorption energy per polymer segment), the flocculation may be weak and reversible, but if the adsorption of the polymer is strong then tough floes will be produced and the flocculation will be irreversible. The latter phenomenon is used for soUd/Uquid separation, for example in water and effluent treatment... 

Reduced blowdown reducing overall costs of make up water and effluent treatment or disposal charges. 

Laccase and peroxidase applications in the pulp and paper industry have been intensively studied for biopulping, biobleaching, and deinking mill process water and effluent treatment. However, recent research has shifted towards... 

The last decade has seen the introduction of a number of small electrolysis cells for the generation of either hypochlorite or chlorine gas in many applications, either type of cell could, in principle, be employed and the choice will then depend on technological factors. In the water and effluent-treatment industry, the common applications of on-site chlorine and hypochlorite cells will include the treatment of sewage (particularly at remote sites), the sterilization of water for food processes and hospital laundries, the treatment of water on board ships and for swimming pools, the treatment of cooling water at coastal power stations to prevent the growth of shellfish and seaweed in the pipes and the enhanced... 

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