Removal effect of turbidity and bacteria in rural drinking water by GAC-sand filter
ZENG Jie1,, CHEN Zhengfu2, WU Shangshu3, YE Chengsong1, YU Xin1, WANG Lei4, ZHANG Shenghua1,, 1.Key Lab of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China 2.Wuhan Jiangxia District Bureau of Water and Lakes Affairs, Wuhan 430200, China 3.College of Petroleum Engineering, Liaoning Shihua University, Fushun 113001, China 4.Fujian Engineering and Research Center of Rural Sewage Treatment and Water Safety, Xiamen University of Technology, Xiamen 361021, China
Abstract:Roughing filtration-GAC-sand filtration is a simple and practical rural drinking water treatment process. The removal effects of turbidity, total bacteria count and Escherichia coli were tested for the pilot-scale unit, and effluent safety of -GAC-sand filter was studied. Results indicated GAC-sand filter could further reduce the effluent turbidity of roughing filter to around 0.7~2.2 NTU. As a barrier for ensuring effluent turbidity, the turbidity removal efficiency of sand layer increased by 11.1% compared with that of the GAC layer. The average removal efficiency of Escherichia coli by GAC-sand filter increased with the decrease of filtration rate, which was dominated by GAC layer. The average log removal rate of Escherichia coli was 0.79 for GAC-sand filter at filtration rate of 5 m·h?1. However, microbial leakage phenomenon occurred during GAC-sand filter running, which had almost no removal effect for total bacterial counts. Thus, effective disinfection treatment should be added and guaranteed after GAC-sand filter to ensure the microbial safety of drinking water. Key words:GAC-sand filtration/ turbidity/ total bacterial count/ Escherichia coli/ rural water supply.
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1.Key Lab of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China 2.Wuhan Jiangxia District Bureau of Water and Lakes Affairs, Wuhan 430200, China 3.College of Petroleum Engineering, Liaoning Shihua University, Fushun 113001, China 4.Fujian Engineering and Research Center of Rural Sewage Treatment and Water Safety, Xiamen University of Technology, Xiamen 361021, China Received Date: 2019-11-11 Accepted Date: 2020-03-01 Available Online: 2020-10-14 Keywords:GAC-sand filtration/ turbidity/ total bacterial count/ Escherichia coli/ rural water supply Abstract:Roughing filtration-GAC-sand filtration is a simple and practical rural drinking water treatment process. The removal effects of turbidity, total bacteria count and Escherichia coli were tested for the pilot-scale unit, and effluent safety of -GAC-sand filter was studied. Results indicated GAC-sand filter could further reduce the effluent turbidity of roughing filter to around 0.7~2.2 NTU. As a barrier for ensuring effluent turbidity, the turbidity removal efficiency of sand layer increased by 11.1% compared with that of the GAC layer. The average removal efficiency of Escherichia coli by GAC-sand filter increased with the decrease of filtration rate, which was dominated by GAC layer. The average log removal rate of Escherichia coli was 0.79 for GAC-sand filter at filtration rate of 5 m·h?1. However, microbial leakage phenomenon occurred during GAC-sand filter running, which had almost no removal effect for total bacterial counts. Thus, effective disinfection treatment should be added and guaranteed after GAC-sand filter to ensure the microbial safety of drinking water.