KACST mobile drinking water treatment plant for research

✍ Scribed by Abdulrahman I. Alabdula'aly; Ali Abdellatif Chammem

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 742 KB
• Volume: 98
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0011-9164
• DOI: 10.1016/0011-9164(94)00133-2

✦ Synopsis

In an effort to search for the best available technology and solve current problems to treat groundwater supplies for drinking purposes in the central region of Saudi Arabia, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) has initiated a program in the area of groundwater treatment. The program included the design, construction and operation of a mobile drinking water treatment plant (MDWTP).

The plant has a capacity of 40 gpm and housed in a 40 ft container. It consists of an aerator, 2 dual media filters, a carbon adsorption unit, anion and cation exchangers, two stages reverse osmosis unit as well as posttreatment units. The MDWTP has been installed in one of the water treatment plans of the central region and was commissioned in May 1992. The aim of the MDWTP is the evaluation of different water treatment processes for the removal of groundwater contaminants and study of variables affecting their performances.

This paper describes KACST MDWTP. Preliminary results of experimental work and performance of the reverse osmosis (RO) and ion exchange (IEX) water treatment processes will be presented.