REMOVAL OF PHYSICAL CONTAMINANTS FROM POTABLE WATER DISTRIBUTION
Aryo Pribadi Wicaksono (a*), Badrus Zaman (b), M. Arief Budihardjo (b)
Diponegoro University
Abstract
Water distribution from water treatment plants may still contain some contaminants such as odor, sediments, discoloration, bacteria, viruses, worms, etc, so it is unhygienic and has potential hazards waterborne disease to human health, it can cause several diseases such as skin disease, itching, influenza, typhus, diarrhea, etc. This can be caused by several contaminants parameters of physical, chemical and microbiological. There are several methods that can be used to treat water such as filtration that purpose to reduce the concentration of contaminants carried or formed in potable water distribution, to conform to drinking water quality standards. Filtration has many media types such as activated carbon, greensand manganese, ferolite, polypropylene, yarn, and ceramic. The advantage of activated carbon is low cost, high efficiency and easy to maintenance. Effects of water purification shows that the filtration from activated carbon combined with polypropylene filtration processes has significant effects and very effective to reduce physical contaminant, it can be reduced 60 – 80 % depending on the concentration of contaminant and can improve water quality. This article is a review of some of the results of the research process.
Keywords: filtration, activated carbon, physical contaminants, water distribution, potable
Topic: Environmental Technology