This study was determined specified characteristics of Iraqi silica sand , touse it in the drinking water treatment rapid gravity filters. These properties includes grain size ,uniformity coefficient , grain shape , porosity , density , durability, chemical content and capability of solubility in the acid ..this study explained that the Iraqi silica sand has high degree at mechanical and chemical stabilities .The e filter column was operate for many cycles , the average results of raw water and treatedwater for variable values (turbidity , total suspended solids and total bacterial count) was taken . The study showed that possibility of use the Iraqi silica sand in the westernIraqi desert in the rapid gravity drinking water treatment plant filters . when the raw water has initial turbidity (5.24 NTU) ,the study and the experimental tests showedthat the average removal efficiency of turbidity , T.S.S ,and T.B.C of (82.9%,82.8%and 79.5%) respectively . when the raw water has initial turbidity (9.58 NTU) ,the study and the experimental tests showed that the average removal efficiency of turbidity , T.S.S ,and T.B.C of (79.4%,78.7% and 74.1%) respectively . when the rawwater has initial turbidity (28.35 NTU) ,the study and the experimental tests showedthat the average removal efficiency of turbidity , T.S.S ,and T.B.C of (72.6%,72.7%and 60.9%) respectively
In the circumstances interface Iraq wars and a lack of public services to citizens, water remains the most important requirements of daily life and must be accorded primary importance by ensuring that the processing of citizens with drinking water quality and conformity with the standard specifications, and that can be done not through the presence of plants To treat drinking water with high efficiency. In this research study of the Show a water Fallujah, which consists of the traditional liquidation of most water stations in Iraq , sedimentation and filtration and sterilization, has been studying each stage of the three phases through the collection of information and testing of each phase, has found that the plant Efficient (57%) of a deposition, and the efficiency (50%) of the nomination phase and the efficiency (40-90%) in the sterilization stage, within the World Health Standards for water quality characteristics , PH was equal to( 6.7), and equal to (3 turbidity unit international) turbidity, and electrical Alaissali (1100 μs/cm ), and the total salt concentration of TDS equal to (530mg/L) for drinking water out of the station, The concentration of suspended solids (40 mg / L) are not in conformity with the specifications
Chlorine is considered as one of the most important disinfectants because of its availability in a wide form and in acceptable cost. Measurements of residual chlorine are very essential to assure the presence of disinfection at various locations of the water distribution system. The aim of the present work is to find the residual chlorine concentrations in potable water which leaves Tikrit University water supply plants. pH-, water temperature and water turbidity are also measured. Sixty samples of tap water are tested during November 2009 till April 2010. The results show that range of residual chlorine is 0.2-4mg/l) and most of the measured values are higher than the maximum permissible limit according to Iraqi standards( 417/1974 ) The data indicated that pH is within the range of (7-8.2) and there is no clear relationship between pH and residual chlorine concentration. It is found that there an inverse proportionality between residual chlorinean and temperature . Same trend is found between residual chlorine and turbitiy. The Conductivity and total dissolved solid of drinking water was within the permitted level by the Iraqi standers
The concern over increasing needs for drinking water and awareness for development of systems to improve water quality both for drinking purposes and for effluents from wastewater treatment and industrial facilities have provided incentives to develop new technologies and improve performance of the existing one. Adsorption technology has many advantages over other treatment methods such as simple design, low investment cost, limited waste production, etc. Synthetic water with a dosing of artificial copper solution (Cu No3) was passed through a PVC column (15 cm diameter, 100 cm length) containing limestone as a filter media in three different sizes, using three different hydraulic rates, and three initial influent copper concentrations (7.04, 4.39, 1.72) ppm .For this study, three experiments have been conducted; continuous batch and field experiment. The up flow roughing filtration is the suitable technique to recover heavy metals present in aqueous solutions, without the need of adding further substances. The filtration results demonstrated that the smaller size of filter media (3.75) mm gave higher removal efficiency (93.75 – 98.80) % than larger filter media (9.50) mm which gave removal efficiency of (67.61 – 94.0) %. This is due to the large specific surface. The smaller size of limestone achieved the longer detention time (49) min, so the removal of Cu was more than (90) % for the (50) min of experiment. At lower flow rate (0.16) L/min, the removal efficiency was higher than at higher flow rate (0.77) L/min. At high flows, there is a reduced period of surface contact between the particles and copper solution. This study also involved three different batch experiments .The removal efficiency was (93- 97) % for the three types of limestone which indicates the importance of limestone media in the removal process. This also indicates that the removal efficiency was increasing with the increase of the limestone volume. Field experiment has been conducted using wastewater from Al- Dura Electric Station on the three types of limestone so that to ensure the laboratory tests. It was achieved good removal efficiency range from (87.5) % to(97.5) % at the high adsorbent dose .To calibrate the physical model, a computer program of multiple regressions is used to assess the relative importance of the predicted variables. The partial correlations indicate that influent concentration of copper, surface loading (flow rate), and detention time are the most important variables while the size of limestone is not important as others.